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of the roof of the room in which the child was born.

(2) A brass tray is broken in the centre and the child

passed through the hole.

(3) A horse-shoe is painted with sandiir (red oxide of

mercury) and scented with gugal (a drug) and attached to the bed of the mother. The shoe is re-painted with sandiir and scented every Tuesday.

(4) If the third day after the birth be a Sunday, a

ceremony known as Trikhal Shanti (propitiation of the Trikhal) is performed. Green leaves from seven trees are collected and put in an earthen pitcher with 10 1 holes in its bottom. Another pitcher is filled with water taken from seven wells. The mother, with her child, sits under the drain of the roof of the house in which the child was born. A Pandit recites to her a hatha from the Trikhal Shanti Shastra, while a female relative of the mother holds a sieve over her head. The pitcher containing the green leaves is placed on the sieve, and the father pours the water of the seven w^ells down the drain of the roof, so that the water passing through the pitcher and the sieve may trickle slowly over the mother's head.

(5) If the charm whose figure is given below be set

in gold and tied to the neck of the mother all evil is avoided.

Terijan men ya najan men mere kharne kojagak de.

ya meri sunnat

1 ya meri sunnat ya meri sunnat

ya meri sunnat

ya meri sunnat

ya meri sunnat

ya meri sunnat

ya meri sunnat

ya meri sunnat

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