If this setting-face-to-face be not obtained, good persons on the Path,! too, fall back from here and wander into the Sang- sara. Then the Eight Wrathful Ones, the Kerimas, and the
one’s own brain and come to shine upon one’s self. There- upon the setting-face-to-face is, calling the deceased by name, thus:
O nobly-born, listen undistractedly. On the Thirteenth Day, from the eastern quarter of thy brain, the Eight Kerimas will emanate and come to shine upon thee. Fear that not.
From the east of thy brain, the White Kerima,’ holding a human corpse, as a club, in the right [hand]; in the left,
upon thee. Fear not.
From the south, the Yellow Tseurima,? holding a bow and arrow, ready to shoot; from the west, the Red Pramoha,* holding a makara‘-banner ; from the north, the Black Petali,? holding a dorje and a scalp filled with blood ; from the south- east, the Red Pukkase,° holding intestines in the right [hand]
north-west, the Yellowish-White Tsandhali,$’ tearing asunder
[thereof]; from the north-east, the Dark-Blue Smasha,’ tearing asunder a head from a corpse and eating [thereof]: these,
* Text: chu-srin (pron. chu-sin) : ‘water-lion’, or ‘leviathan’ (Skt. Makara), a mythological monster.
5, 6,7 Tib.-Skt. of text.
® In place of this Tib.-Skt. form of our text, the Block-Print gives Smashali, which is a more correct form.
the Eight Kerimas of the Abodes [or Eight Directions], also come to shine upon thee, surrounding the Five Blood-drinking Fathers. Yet be not afraid.
O nobly-born, from the Circle outside of them, the Eight
shine upon thee: from the east, the Dark-Brown Lion-Headed One, the hands crossed on the breast, and in the mouth holding a corpse, and shaking the mane; from the south, the Red Tiger-Headed One, the hands crossed downwards, grinning and showing the fangs and looking on with protruding eyes ; from the west, the Black Fox-Headed One, the right [hand] holding a shaving-knife, the left holding an intestine, and [she] eating and licking the blood [therefrom]; from the north, the Dark-Blue Wolf-Headed One, the two hands tearing open a corpse and looking on with protruding eyes; from the south-east, the Yellowish-White Vulture-Headed One, bearing
a skeleton in the hand; from the south-west, the Dark-Red Cemetery-Bird-Headed One, carrying a gigantic corpse on the shoulder; from the north-west, the Black Crow-Headed One,
Blue Owl-Headed One, holding a dovje in the right [hand], and holding a sword in the left, and eating.
surrounding the Blood-Drinking Fathers, and issuing from within thy brain, come to shine upon thee. Fear that not. Know them to be the thought-forms of thine own intellectual faculties.