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Toda Prayer.

kilgh tr kMr

kwaten ten tebkdter at, tan

viun madrik ten tnciz'el karitaii ten

piilnerkArz

tetnirkan

pirsk inimeki pe- tit h ir

nerk muneki po- tith ir

puttidr mun ke- kith tr

Kithcri kiitk cth- kith tr

pdtilsh katith tr

"crooked horned buffalo horn cut god."

" imitation buffalo horns took, his mother's brother's lap

god." " sambhur from calved god. " (The last six kwarzam

refer to the story of Kuzkarv.) buffaloes of ti called piirsir. buffaloes oi tt called //Vr^/'r. "sun to facing that came buffaloes."

" bell to facing that came buffalo."

"■' tiidr tree back rubbed buffalo."

" Kitheri stream to jumped buffalo."

"desolate pen from made buffalo."

Warwark cthkith " Warwar (stream) to jumped buffalo."

ir er khiiberam kitj " seven heaps buffalo-dung fire setting buffaloes."

erdith era/ii

Then there follow twenty-six more kwarzam referring to various objects at the different dairies of the ti, and then follows the prayer proper, " tdnenmd, tdrnidmd "

The first sixteen kwarzam of the prayer are those of gods or of god-inhabited places. Then follow six kwarzam referring to incidents in the life of the god Kuzkarv or Korateu. The following is an abbreviated account of the chief events of this life : —

One day the goddess Teikirzi was going from one village to another when she gave birth to a son in a cave called Teivelkursh, by the side of the stream Kathipakh. The name of the child was Azo-mazo.^ The after-birth fell into the stream and was washed down to the river Teipakh (the Paikara river) as far as a place called Marsnavai, where two plants were growing called purs and tib in which the after-birth became entangled. It then slowly

' In the prayer two gods are mentioned, Azo and Maze. It is possible that this is an example of the birth of twin.s. Unfortunately I omitted to make can-ful inc|uiry into this point.