Note 104 — Chapter II · HEROIC GODLINGS

In such diseases as kharavā, sunaku, motudukh (lit. the great malady), valo, pet-tod,104 Bandhāi-javan,105 a jantra is tied by a piece of indigo-coloured cloth or by a piece of thread of the same colour, round the neck of the animal, and is also fastened over the village-gates. A toraṇ is prepared of the ears of juvāri corn with a cocoanut in the centre, and after magical incantations have been pronounced over it, is suspended over the village-gates. All animals passing under the toraṇ are believed to be proof against the disease.