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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MARCH, 1897.
done within. After these things were done, be got a cot prepared for Pañjurli Bhûta, ard got a wooden railing on three sides of it and got it painted. Then he sent iron to the blacksmith's workshop and got a trident prepared with a chain and small jingling bells attached to the three points of it, and also got a sword and goglets and stool and bangles and shield and chain with tiger's nails in it and all other necessary ornaments prepared. After all these things were prepared the Balla! went to the fortune-telling Bhatta's house. When he went he found the Bhatta sitting in the verandah and telling fortunes. Then the Ballå! seeing the Bhatta clasped his hands and saluted him. Then the fortane-telling Bhatta said :-" Let some oue spread a mat for the Balla! that he may sit."
Then some one who was near brought a mat and spread it there. The Balla! sat upon it. After some time, when the fortune-telling business was over, the Bhatta asked the Balla! "On what business did you come here, o Balla!? You come very rarely here. It is a long time since I saw you last."
At this the Balli] said :-“O Bhatta, I came to visit you ; according to your fortune-telling on that day my racing-buffaloes survived. If not, they would have certainly died. Now I have got a stána built; and a cot and other ornaments for Pañjurli Bhůta are all ready. Now you must find out the auspicious day, and tell me on what day we shonld establish Panjurli Bhata, and dedicate the stána to him. For this purpose I am come to you."
At this the Bhatta said :-"Well, yes, I will think of it and tell you the auspicious day."
So saying, with the help of the kausis and luis almanack he found an auspicious day and said:-"O Ballal, there is not any auspicious day in this month. But there is one in the next month. The Friday, the 11th of the next month, is the day on which you can dedicate the stána to the Bhůta. That day is very auspicious. Therefore be prepared to do this on that very day."
So said the fortane-telling Bhatta. At this the Ballal said "Sir, you must come and establish the Pañjurli Bhůta. There is no one so able as yourself ; therefore it must be done by yourself. And I do not know what things are necessary for the sacrifices on that day. You must tell them also to me plainly."
At this the Bhatta said :-"You say that I must come, but I have much business; what shall I do?”
To this the Ballal said :-"No, that won't do ; you must come yourself."
When he urged in this manner the Bhatta said :-"Well, I will come; what can I do when you are so urgent? I cannot deny you. Therefore I will come. And I will tell you what things are necessary on that day. Twelve sérs of rice and twelve bundles of betel-leaves, forty-eight betel nuts, twelve banches of the flowers of the Areca-nat iree, forty-eight kinds of parasitic plants, a bunilo of firewood of the jack-tree, ninety-six tender cocoanuts, ninety-six ripe cocoanuts, forty-eight grains of rice and forty-eight sérs of baked rice, forty.eigit sêrs of beaten rice, ninety-six sérs of jaggery, twelve dried cocoanuts, one hundred plaintain-leaves, one handred ripe plantains, twelve sérs of ghi, forty-eight sérs of oil, and three sérs of butter; you must procure all these and then find out a good man to represent the Bhúta. Let all these things be procared; and on that day send for me early in the morning; and I will come to you. And what else can I do?"
At this the Balla said :-"So then I will send a man to fetch you; you must come with him. And I do not know anything. Please do what I ask that people may say that ererything was well done, and that I did it. Whatever I have to spend on that aecount, let it be spent; I do not care."
Saying this, with clasped hands, he said moreover :-"Now I am going, please give me leave to go."
At this the Bhatta said :--"Well then, go. You have much business; you have to do everything single-handed."
