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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/30/13
Title:: Spiritual instructions for bulding houses, gates
Scope & Content:: The manuscript mentions several things such as direction of house construction, gate and fence construction; finding fair and deteriorating dates fo perform specific tasks. 52 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads; no covers; written in Chinese ink on Chinese paper which is sticked doubly; A...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/31/4
Title:: Calendar calculation, funeral rituals, talismans
Scope & Content:: Instructions for calendar calculation; mantras to stop evils in funerals; talismans to relieve a village from misfortunes. 72 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads; fabric cover; written in Chinese ink on Chinese paper folded in half; Akhar Thrah script. Size: 19cm x 12.5cm. A page is blank ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 76 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/31/5
Title:: Purification ceremony, fortune telling, calendar calculation, medicine
Scope & Content:: Instructions for Cham calendar calculation; incantations to prevent the apparition of the ill-fated dead from harming other family's members; about age compatibility between husband and wife; fortune telling to find lost assets; some secret medicine used by shamans. 132 pages. Cham manuscript ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 136 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/31/9
Title:: Finding auspicious dates and months
Scope & Content:: Instructions for finding fair dates and months to start a job such as performing an offering ceremony, weddings, house construction, departures. 60 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads; plastic cover; written in Chinese ink on Chinese paper folded in half; Akhar Thrah script. Size: 17cm x 1...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 64 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/31/11
Title:: Rituals and fortune telling
Scope & Content:: Incantations and instructions for various rituals such as for relieving one from misfortunes, removing termite nests, purifying a house; instructions for finding fair dates and months. 54 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads; no covers; written by marker on industrial paper folded in half; ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 54 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/31/13
Title:: Fortune telling, incantations for curing, calendar calculation
Scope & Content:: Instructions for fortune telling for illnesses, age compatibility, destiny, finding lost assets. Other parts include secret methods for shamans to cure illnesses; calculating methods for Cham Awal and Ahier calendars. 102 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads; plastic cover; written in Chine...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 106 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/2
Title:: The works of shamans
Scope & Content:: The works of Gru Urang shamans. Rituals performed on land that used to be a graveyard; purification rituals for buffaloes and people; finding the proper zodiac hours, days, months; learning about the zodiac animals; incantations to neutralize magic spells. 82 pages. Cham manuscript; covered by...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 86 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/18
Title:: Three poems on fortune telling, travel, and morality
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes three poems: a poem about the instructions on finding the fair dates, months, fair and deteriorating directions for departure (ariya harei balan); a narrative poem about things witnessed by a Cham person during his/her first travel (ariya deh apuei); a teaching poem for y...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 78 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/19
Title:: Finding auspicious dates and months
Scope & Content:: Instructions for finding fair dates and months to start a job (offering ceremony, house construction, wedding); finding the departure's direction corresponding to different dates. Other parts mention rice offering ceremonies (ngap yang padai); kitchen constrution ritual. 14 pages. Cham manuscr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 14 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/33/18
Title:: Rituals and belief of Cham people
Scope & Content:: Various contents: healing wounds caused by animals, skin infections,instructions on calculating the Cham calendar; Mantras read before using a pen; talismans drawn by the matchmaker on the mat used the newlyweds; blow soul into a Heng bird's body; mantras read before eating the offering food in ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 62 TIFF images

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