530 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (December, 1906. 
7. Note on the Jargon of Indian Horse Dealers. 
Besides the mercantile sign language detailed in Journal 
No, 7, Vol. II, 1906, some trades have a jargon ef their own 
that amounts to a secret Perici A horse- dealer, for instance, 
instructing an underling to go and examine a horse in a fair, with 
a view to purchase, might stil ¢ say 74,0 theko, the verb thekna being 
probably a corruption of dekkhna ; but this, as well as most of the 
horse-dealers’ jargon, belongs to a past generation. Old Panjab 
dealers, still living, remember the time when the following nhstaal 
were “spa am gt them :— 
orse, gorpa ; mare, gorpi ; ee -legs, hath or dastdure; it 
has good RT a pd Miatchire mille ; t has bad fore-legs, dastaure 
bl bad, bashasi ; eye, kilkiyan ; sri chhubahi ; bog-spavin, 
; to examine, hazana. In discussing prices, gh a secret code 
ous to be observed. The following list of numbers was 
collected with difficulty, by the writer, at various horse- 
fairs in the Panjab, various horse-dealers sontniating odd 
numbers that had stuck in their memo e numbers are 
df not Pushtu, then they must be some other language.” As they 
are not Pushtu, we must conclude they are ‘ someother language’ :— 
4 Nim 20 Siti. 
1 <Akel or Aine. } 25 Kafa* pee: 7 sut?. 
13 Akel ni m, 30 Gert daigin 
Yee, eee | 35 Kafa road ss sult. 
3. Geri. 40 Y@ suti,a 
4 Gapan. 45 Kafa mle ae suti,an, 
5 Kafis 50 Kafa dai 
6 Rekhi. ~ 60° Geri sata ‘in 
7 Rekhi-bas.8 70 Rekhi ress sath an. 
8 Yaz bash. 80 Gépin suti,a 
9 Sari basn. ; , 90 Sar-7 aspina ae lang. 
10° Suar-i aspina 95 Kafi* kaso lang. 
ll Sar-i mate.* 100 ng. 
12 Sar-i yaz. 125 Masha male lang. 
13 Sar-i geri. ; 150 Akel nim lang. 
14 Sar-i yapan. 175 Masha kaso yéz lang. 
15 Sar-i nim.5 206 Yaz lang. 
“4 i 225 Yaz lang masha male. 
+s 26 250 Yaz nim lang. 
19 275 Masha io geri lang. 
b 300 . Geri la 
i... 
2 In Ps sem 95 oa valine kafa. eard aspina used for a rupee. 
3 Bas should apparently be bas 
ects a ae te es tt 
; e to obtain these numbers b d 18 
should be sar-i rekhi, sar-t rekhi bas, sar-i eda baak vr eemcelly 26, 21 98 
Seo & Daig ane danati 9 Kaso=kam. 
