292 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
often in Tibet, too, the dialogue is one of good-humoured 
but strong taunting, twitting and gibing. Spiciness in the 
dialogues seems to be an additional recommendation. Though 
broad and primitive, the Tibetan dialogue can scarcely be 
called obscene. In the gsung bshad nature is very natural, 
spades are called spades. The Bengal custom, as I am 
sewhere in India other analogies may probably be 
found. A more direct and a closer parallel may be found in 
an unexpected place, namely in Madagascar. Recently a 
Jan.-Febr. 1912 (10th series, Vol. 19), page 133, under the 
i J sg.’ The same writer has elabo- 
rated his subject subsequently in a separate volume. From 
an. , 
e recitation of hain-teny has hitherto drawn only . 
little attention of the Europeans who have dealt with Mala- 
] 1 
_ Again : “ the hain-teny is essentially light poetry dealing 
with love. A man desires a woman and tells her s A 
woman surrenders herself or refuses. A woman who has been 
