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ent, lotus, elephant-goad, discus, "blood-garland" (garland of red flowers ?), water-pot, and bell, and is seated on a rock; antimony, flowers, oil, sandal, blood, parched corn, and milk are offered two by two at the N.-W. of it.
Rati-kama Riri Yaka. See Riri Yaka. Rati-kima Yaka. An associate of Riri Yaka. Probably=Ratikan. Rati-kami. Consort of Ratikan.
Ratikan (Rati-madana, Madana). A demon, somotimez l'opzosented as female. He was born as son of a Licchavi Râja, and came when a young man to Soli-rata; here he mot tho king's daughter, who had gone to hear the preaching of Buddhism ; they fell in love, and died. Offerings were made to him in Ceylon, and he was regarded as an incarnation of Madana (Love) inspiring human beings with carnal desire. In the "bali” rites, to heal diseases caused by Hûniyan Yaka and Maulana, figures of him and his con-ort kissing ono another on a flowered pillow and golden conch, with two entwiced cobras on their should ors, are set up on a tray of the wood of Butea frondosa, 7 spans long and 4 wide, his figure having a white body and a blue and boarded face, with a golden water-pot in his right hand, a red cock in his left, and a rod hat, while she has a white dress and golden ornaments, with bangles on hands and foet, and stands on a lotus. [R.-vidiya.] Under the title of Rati-ma lana he attasks women, and reseivez offerings of cobra-hoods at the four corners of a shelf 9 spans long and 4, fingers wide, small cocoanuts (bodili) near the ground, cocoanuts with edible husks (navasi), cocoanut-flowers, water-lilies, and rice of 3 colours (red, white, and yellow); at each end are tied 6 cloths, with flowers and garlands of 7 colours. He wears clothes of 4 colours (red, whito, blue, and black). In a former birth he was Ajasatta (see below). In his train are the Yakas Mal-madana, Pisi-macana, Domala-madana, Sandun-madana, Siri-pulutu, and Savanda-madana. (Rati-madame-ragé.] Elsewhere he is invoked under the forms of Madana Yaka, Ratikan-madana, Avara-m., Kama-m., and Sandun-m. [Madanz-yak-upala.] The R-yadinnı, addressed to Ratikan Yaka and the seven Ratikan Yakinis, relates that onco a Muni or saint sat in contemplation under an ajapala tree in the Isigiri wilderness for 12 years, in which birds rested in his long beard, squirrels made their home on his head and pythons behind his shoulders, and the roots of the tree grew round him. Säkra appeared to him in the form of a lovely woman, and aroused in him fleshly love. Then Stkra vanished, and the Muni sought in vain for the lost love, Säkra, regretting his act, created a lake and in it a lotus, from tho 7 petals of which he made 7 Yakinis. Rati-madana, Ruti-m. Mal-m., Gini-m., Andun Giri, Pissi G., and Ntta G. — who were given to the Muni, who was styled Mala-upan Yakşaya, the Dead-bornDemon. Cf. the legend of Ajasatta below. A similar story is told in a R.-baliya-kavi, which gives the names of the 7 damsels created by Säkra as Rati-kami, Ruti-k.. Andun Giri, Sandun Giri. Tel-kami, Mal-k., and Madana Giri, and says that with Säkra's permission they all descended to earth and afflicted mankind with headaches, pains, 93 major and 98 minor diseases, and 36 kinds of mischance. It prescribes a bali-image with a red hat, golden face, blue belly, and black feet, accompanied by a female with cobras wreathed round her arms and neck, gold arn-rings, and a loo 30 robe. Another R.-baliya-krvi tells the same story. saying that when the ascetic had yielded to temptation he wandered to Madana-giri Parvata. mos thua t'le 7 Muun-kimdimsels, and was given by Säkra the form of a Rakusu. It then przscribes a ba'i-rite, with an image of R. with red cap, golden face, blue belly, and black feet, and the form of a Rakusu, surrounded by red female figures with golden waterjars in their right hands and bangles on arms and feet, upon a tray 7 spans long and 37
