dal-ba-wau-dal-Ahajazdabuda. The present year (1251) is the year Toun-za.
“In a Malay MS. history of Patani, in my possession, I find the Siamese mode of
designating the different years of the cycle by the names of animals adopted.”^241
PLATE 25.—FIG. 1. DIAGRAMS.Diagrams used for divinatory purposes—the two on the right being different kinds of “magic
squares.” The left-hand top figure has small circles at different points of its anatomy, which are
used as the means of divination. The left-hand figure at the bottom is used as a sort of compass
—the diviner counting round it from point to point.