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band, why have you come ? ’__They replied :—‘ Not without a 
i Hearing this she began to 
d wring her hands: and the aged mother asked :—‘ Is it 
said.—‘:Shankras has said: Why are you asking me? Tell 
the mi come home, and then he will be safe.’? The 
ty Commissioner of Simla looked after him like a father, 
with more than a parent’s care, and gave him seven pills. 
deep regret of all. His companions were much distressed, 
and said : ‘ What shall we say to his mother, and to his wife?’ A 
week later they had reached Pwari, and the minister’s beloved 
wife asked why they had come. They replied :—‘ Not for plea- 
sure, but in sorrow, to tell you that the minister has gone to 
Heaven.’ They (the women) began to weep and wring their 
ands. His mother said: ‘What now can be done? Where is 
my beloved son, who was like a golden lamp 7’ Love for her 
son made her say ; ‘I cannot get such a worthy son now.’ She 
made a pilgrimage to the seven sacred places, but could find no 
peace. 
Il.—Tue Sone or Lxecuo Bist. 
The following song describes the late Tiké Raghu Nath 
Singh’s marriage. On the return from Mandi cholera broke out 
and more than 1,500 people, both of Mandi and Bashahr, suc- 
cumbed. Wazir Jwal4 Dds and Wazir Dewa Sukh Lapcho Bist 
also perished. The latter died at the spring, between Gaura 
and Gopélpur, about 80 miles from Simld, called the Physi- 
cian’s Spring (Baid ki bawri). It is so called because a physi- 
cian (baid) who had come up to the hills to cure the sick, 
1 Shankras is the name of the deity of Pw4ri village in the Inner 
Tukpa pargand. 
2 Fem. of bist, the Kandwari for wazir or minister, and used as the 
title of his wife or mother. 
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