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THE HINDOO MYTHOLOGY. 255
others more than the food of a day at once; all accidents;
food, if connected with the destruction of animal life, &c.;
death, and disgrace; also to seek to please all, and to obtain
compassion from all.
The joinus observe several festivals during the year; as,
the Flag, the Jumboo-dweepu, the Water, the Dedication,
and the Car festivals0; another, when eight hundred arti-
cles, eight of one sort, are presented to a joinu deity; but
the greatest of all their festivals is the Siddhu-chukru
pooja, which is celebrated twice a year, in the months
Ashwinu and Choitru, and continues nine days. The wor-
ship is performed before the nine names mentioned in
p. 251, written on paper or on the earth, in a circle contain-
ing nine divisions, of different colours, the name Orihiintu
being in the centre. On the outside of the circle are
written the names of the ten regents of the earth, of the
sixty-four goddesses called the ruling deities, of two Bhoi-
riivus, two dukshus, and the name of the guardian deity of
this circle, Chukre'shwuree. Worship is daily performed
to all these names collectively during the festival, and each
name is daily honoured with particular ceremonies in turn;
the colours of the flowers and cloths offered are to be the
same as the colour of the compartment in which each name
is written. To most of the ceremonies included in what is
called pooja (see p. 64.) they add recitations in praise of
devout joinus.
On the 5th of the increase of the moon, the joinus have
a monthly festival in honour of Muha-veem; to whom they
present five books, five pens, five inkstands, five leaves used
" There is a similarity betwixt some of these feasts and one or two of
those observed by the bouddhus. See p. 220.
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others more than the food of a day at once; all accidents;
food, if connected with the destruction of animal life, &c.;
death, and disgrace; also to seek to please all, and to obtain
compassion from all.
The joinus observe several festivals during the year; as,
the Flag, the Jumboo-dweepu, the Water, the Dedication,
and the Car festivals0; another, when eight hundred arti-
cles, eight of one sort, are presented to a joinu deity; but
the greatest of all their festivals is the Siddhu-chukru
pooja, which is celebrated twice a year, in the months
Ashwinu and Choitru, and continues nine days. The wor-
ship is performed before the nine names mentioned in
p. 251, written on paper or on the earth, in a circle contain-
ing nine divisions, of different colours, the name Orihiintu
being in the centre. On the outside of the circle are
written the names of the ten regents of the earth, of the
sixty-four goddesses called the ruling deities, of two Bhoi-
riivus, two dukshus, and the name of the guardian deity of
this circle, Chukre'shwuree. Worship is daily performed
to all these names collectively during the festival, and each
name is daily honoured with particular ceremonies in turn;
the colours of the flowers and cloths offered are to be the
same as the colour of the compartment in which each name
is written. To most of the ceremonies included in what is
called pooja (see p. 64.) they add recitations in praise of
devout joinus.
On the 5th of the increase of the moon, the joinus have
a monthly festival in honour of Muha-veem; to whom they
present five books, five pens, five inkstands, five leaves used
" There is a similarity betwixt some of these feasts and one or two of
those observed by the bouddhus. See p. 220.
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