118 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1911.} 
(0) lS (55% csy® hari hart ghis, ‘grass pleasantly green 
all over, green everywhere’’; lal lal chihra, ‘‘a face red all 
over ’’ (in a flattering sense or otherwise). 
(0) &g90 $36 ¥jU taza taza didh, ‘‘milk quite fresh, still 
warm ”’ (i.e. milk fresh from amongst fresh milk). Here, too, 
the aa is ‘fresh for the time’: vide (d). 
(d) Spee gue Sane stikha sukha chihra, “a somewhat drawn 
face (for the time)’’: udas udas chihra, ‘‘a somewhat sad face 
(for the time)’’: if su#kha or udas were not repeated, the idea 
would not be ey sadness, but sadness either permanent 
or lasting a long tim 
(€) 3995 wl e” e~ sach sach bayan karo, ‘‘tell the whole 
truth and the truth only.’’ 
It will be seen that the repetition of the adjective before a 
plural noun may be either intensive or simply lural, thus, 
achche achche parhanewale =‘ many very good teachers” ; chhott 
chhott kitaben alag rakho, bart bart alag means ‘‘ put ‘all the 
small books apart together and all the big ones apart together.” 
Before a singular noun the repetition does not signify ‘ very’. 
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