Bt Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {March, 1906. 
They gave me a pitcher and I went to draw water ; 
Close by the spring I fell asleep. 
Ala 14% Baba Manstr 
Go tell my mother, 
Two Turkish men from Turkistan 
Carried me off to Hindustan. 
Ala 14% Baba Mansir 
Go tell my mother, 
They married me to the son of a king, 
Ruler of men and of women. 
Ala la% Baba Mansiv _ : 
Go tell my mother. . 
Now four sons I’ve got, 
One’s with the flocks, one’s with herds, 
One’s at school! and one’s in the cot.? 
Ala la% Baba Mansir 
Go tell my mother. 
TH. 
La-la 1a-la my dear son 
- Sleep my sweet life ; 
Suhel ® has risen o’er the hills, the moon behind him. 
Oh leader of the caravan, when wilt thou load and start? _ 
i ., Kuti-Hana for maktab-khana, 
2 Gahvarai ahha cradle of canvas, etc., suspended from four low posts like 
an English | anni or ae vulgarly gachi, is of leather or of canvas — 
‘tnd is suspended and rocked hammock, styles the hammock 
cireus underneath the tr concen, 
