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TABLES FOR ASTROLOGICAL PURPOSES.
some few words; these I add in brackets to the verbal
native information.
I now give the description of the table. In the upper
left-hand corner (in space No. I.) Manjusri1 is represented
sitting upon a throne; in the opposite corner (in No. II.)
is the sword of wisdom, an emblem of his superior
knowledge. Each of these two figures occupies the
longitudinal space of two squares and the breadth of
one. The rest of the plate is filled up by the following
thirty figures and their corresponding sentences.
Although the arrangement is
very plain, the delineation,
combined with the numbers,
wdl facilitate the represent-
ation to the reader of the
position of the symbols.
I.
1
2
3
4
5
6
II.
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
29
25
26
27
28
29
30
1. A bird; good.
2.
3.
4.
An elephant; middling.
The bird Garuda; good.
A wheel, the Buddhist symbol typifying the
preaching of the Buddhas, as also the circle of
existences, and the supreme power of the fabulous
fabulous kings Chakravartin.2 Good.
A bird; bad. (Words below: nine, bird, danger,
evil spirit, tiger; dgu, bya, <mod, 'dre, stag.)
A box within a frame; middling.
1 See p. 65. 2 See p. 127.
TABLES FOR ASTROLOGICAL PURPOSES.
some few words; these I add in brackets to the verbal
native information.
I now give the description of the table. In the upper
left-hand corner (in space No. I.) Manjusri1 is represented
sitting upon a throne; in the opposite corner (in No. II.)
is the sword of wisdom, an emblem of his superior
knowledge. Each of these two figures occupies the
longitudinal space of two squares and the breadth of
one. The rest of the plate is filled up by the following
thirty figures and their corresponding sentences.
Although the arrangement is
very plain, the delineation,
combined with the numbers,
wdl facilitate the represent-
ation to the reader of the
position of the symbols.
I.
1
2
3
4
5
6
II.
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
29
25
26
27
28
29
30
1. A bird; good.
2.
3.
4.
An elephant; middling.
The bird Garuda; good.
A wheel, the Buddhist symbol typifying the
preaching of the Buddhas, as also the circle of
existences, and the supreme power of the fabulous
fabulous kings Chakravartin.2 Good.
A bird; bad. (Words below: nine, bird, danger,
evil spirit, tiger; dgu, bya, <mod, 'dre, stag.)
A box within a frame; middling.
1 See p. 65. 2 See p. 127.