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1. ¹ Now (follows) the expiation for attacks of the dog-demon (epilepsy) (on the boy).

अथातः श्वग्रहप्रायश्चित्तम् १

2. ² When the attack assails (the boy, the performer of the ceremony) arranges his sacrificial cord over his left shoulder, sips water, and fetches water with a cup that has not yet been used (in order to pour it upon the boy). In the middle of the hall he elevates (the earth at) that place in which they use to gamble; he besprinkles it with water, casts the dice, scatters them (on all sides), makes a heap of them, spreads them out, makes an opening in the thatched roof of the hall, takes the boy in through that (opening), lays him on his back on the dice, and pours a mixture of curds and salt-water upon him, while they beat a gong towards the south. (The curds and water are poured on the sick boy with the following Mantras),

‘Kurkura, Sukurkura, the Kurkura with the dark fetter . . . .

‘Sārameya runs about, looking, as it were, upon the sea. He, the Suvīriṇa (?), wears golden ornaments on his neck and on his breast, the most excellent (ornaments) of dogs (?).

‘Suvīriṇa, let him loose! Let him loose, Ekavrātya! Let him loose, doggy! Let him loose, Chat!

‘Ṭeka and Sasaramaṭaṃka and Tūla and Vitūla and the white one and the red one. Let him loose! . . . . the brown and red one.

‘On those two single ones the sarasyakās (?) run down in the third heaven from here. Chat! Go away. Sīsarama! Sārameya! Adoration to thee, Sīsara!

‘Your mother is called the messenger; your father is the maṇḍākaka (maṇḍūkaka, the frog?). Chat! Go away, &c.

‘Your mother is called dulā (the staggering one?); your father is the maṇḍākaka. Chat! Go away, &c.

‘The stallions (stamp with) their feet. Do not gnash (?) thy teeth. Chat! Go away, &c.

‘The carpenter hammers at (the chariots) that have wheels (?). Do not gnash (?) thy teeth. Chat! Go away,’ &c.

समुपसृते यज्ञोपवीत्याचान्तोनाप्रीतेन शरावेणोदकमाहृत्य सभायां मध्येधिदेवनमुद्धत्यावोक्ष्याक्षान्न्युप्य व्यूह्य समूह्य प्रथयित्वोपरिष्टात्सभायां व्यूह्य तृणानि तेन कुमारमभ्याहृत्याक्षेषूत्तानं निपात्य दध्ना लवणोदकमिश्रेणाभ्युक्षति । आघ्नन्ति कंसं दक्षिणतः कुर्कुरः सुकुर्कुरः कुर्कुरो नीलबन्धनः औलव इत्तमुपाह्वयतार्जिम छम्बलः अथोराम उलुम्बरः सारमेयो ह धावति समुद्र मिव चाकशद्बिभ्रन्निष्कं च रुक्मं च शुनामग्रं सुवीरिणः सुवीरिणः सृज सृज एकव्रात्य सृज शुनक सृज छत् टेकश्च ससरमटङ्कश्च तूलश्च वितूलश्चार्जुनश्च लोहितश्च उत्सृज त्वं शितिम्र त्वं पिशङ्क रोहितः अमी ये के सरस्यका अवधावति तृतीयस्यामितो दिवि छदपेहि सीसरम सारमेय नमस्ते अस्तु सीसर दूत्या ह नाम वो माता मण्डाकको ह वः पिता छदपेहि सीसरम सारमेय नमस्ते अस्तु सीसर दुला ह नाम वो माता मण्डाकको ह वः पिता छदपेहि सिसरम सारमेय नमस्ते अस्तु सीसर समश्वा वृषणः पदो न सीसरिदतः छदपेहि सीसरम सारमेय नमस्ते अस्तु सीसर सन्तक्षा हन्ति चक्रिणो न सीसरिदतः । छदपेहि सीसरम सारमेय नमस्ते अस्तु सीसर । इति २

3. Then (the performer of the ceremony) says, ‘Choose a boon.’

अथाह । वरं वृणीष्व । इति ३

4. (The father or brother of the boy replies), ‘I choose the boy.’

कुमारमेवाहं वरं वृणे । इति ४

5. ³ They should do so, when the attack assails him, three times in the day, in the morning, at noon, and in the afternoon, and when he has recovered.

End of the Second Paṭala.

एवं समुपसृते त्रिरन्हः प्रातर्मध्यन्दिने सायं च कुर्याद्यदि चागतः स्यात् ५