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 330 Occult Poivers of Healing in the Panjab.

chauthd, hudda chauhh Varan da, Dadha Khuda Hazrat Pir Dastgir da, hudda Hazrat Habib Michan Khel da, hudda Baghdad Sharif da, huddd, kohdn de sahib-zadian da, huddd Wattt kol s&hib da, huddd Budhdi sahib da, huddd Shaikh Lamkdr sdhib da, huddd Kahdn dd, ndgdn kd, dabbidn kd, telarian kd, sam^chtir kd, kamchilr kd, gurhd kd, khachchar kd, bhisi kd, athdrd zdt athudii kd, dddhd huddd Hazrat Fir Dastgir kd. Sdp khdye athudh khdye jo koi viarjdye uske zdmin iush'i. Nagdh f)idr bastam Jaj'ighd mar bastam, KardhdH mdr bastam, Niiak f?idr bastam, sufed mdr bastam, sidh mdr bastam. Hukm-i-Khudd mdr bastam, Hukm-i-Rastil mdr bastam. Rakh, Rakh, Rakh, Alldh ki rakh ; jis paidd kitd sab khalaq. Ldildha-il-Alldh-i-Muhammad- ur-Rasul-Alldh-i-Dam Khudd, dam Fir Ustdd, mdi chit kdlCi terd bis jhdrCih, bis kdl mukdli. Sdthi chdwal bufid bharan pahnaeo gar motion kd hdr, tan tan dge dpe hui ja7vdr. Samundar ki khdi, uttar bisse taintli'i kalme Muhammad-ur-Rasfil-Alidh di duhdi. Ba-haqq-i-Ldildha-il-Alldh-i-Muhammad-ur-Ras{d- Alldh.

"This charm can only be chanted by permission of one already practising it. The person who desires to obtain such permission must bow down and eat a piece of salt, which the initiate has kept in his mouth, while reciting the whole incantation. To cure the injury, [take] a piece of a bitter plant, {e.g. tobacco, dharek, or nim); ^^ a stick or a green branch of it should be waved continuously from the bite to the nearest extremity of the patient's body, and meanwhile the incantation should be chanted within the lips. If the pain seems stubborn, a few repetitions of the incantation are sure to bring about the desired effect. When the patient feels complete relief from the pain, except at the place bitten or stung, the practitioner should make seven circles with spittle applied to his finger-tip. Care should be taken not to let the finger-tip touch the lips or tongue, for it might transmit poison to them from the poisoned place in making the circles."

The next note seems to be from Jhelum : — " Charms are used to stop toothache, heal bites, ' bind ' a needle, an oven, or a fire, or stop a dust storm.

^ These two, and the dk, are the only magic plants mentioned in the Notes. There must be many more in use.