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on which he caused. He will accept the offerings prepared with blood, odour, and reddish boiled rice. Prepare these offerings in the shade of the _Demby_ tree. Make a female figure of the _planets_ with a monkey's face, and its body the colour of gold. Offer four offerings in the four corners. In the left corner, place some blood, and for victims a fowl and a goat. In the evening, place the scene representing the planets on the high ground. The face resembles a monkey's face, and the head is the colour of gold. The head is reddish, and the bunch of hair is black and tied. He holds blood in the left-hand, and rides on a bullock. After this manner make the sanguinary figure of the planets. II. O thou great devil _Maha-Sohon_, preserve these sick persons without delay! On the way, as he was going, by supernatural power he made a great noise. He fought with the form of _Wessamoony_, and wounded his head. The planet _Saturn_ saw a wolf in the midst of the forest, and broke his neck. The _Wessamoony_ gave permission to the great devil called _Maha-Sohon_. O thou great devil _Maha-Sohon_, take away these sicknesses by accepting the offerings made frequently to thee.--The qualities of this devil are these: he stretches his long chin, and opens wide his mouth like a cavern: he bears a spear in his right-hand, and grasps a great and strong elephant with his left-hand. He is watching and expecting to drink the blood of the elephant in the place where the two and three roads meet together. Influenced by supernatural power, he entered the body of the princess called _Godimbera_. He caused her to be sick with severe trembling sickness. Come thou poor and powerless devil _Maha-Sohon_ to fight with me, and leave the princess, if thou hast sufficient strength. On hearing these sayings, he left her, and made himself like a blue cloud, and violently covered his whole body with flames of fire. Furiously staring with his eyes, he said, "Art thou come, blockhead, to fight with me who was born in the world of men? I will take you by the legs, and dash you upon the great rock _Maha-meru_, and quickly bring you to nothing." Thou wast born on Sunday, the first day of the month, and didst receive permission from the _King of Death_, and didst brandish a sword like a
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