'Jampi Ular'= A serpent spell. Romanized transliteration by P. Voorhoeve, July 1968, 2ff., typescript (= L.Or.8447/42, part).

Reference No:
U DJA/2/107
Dates:
Jul 1968
Description:
The original is a bamboo cylinder, incised with 14 lines in the rencong script in South Sumatran Malay (V.Oph.151.VI = L.Or.12277). The text reads from the bottom to the top. Dr. Voorhoeve observes: 'A mantra against serpents; to them and to the supplicant all kinds of quasi-Arabic names are given: but the snakes are rendered powerless in the end by remembering their origin, a cut off portion of the navel-chord of the son of Batara Guru'.
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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of Professor Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan (1926-1975)