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ae Negi Jitbar placed before Chaidika 
As a present, and prayed : 
‘**O Shiiwa Chaiikida, i kind and bestow upon me 
glory and good fort 
Then coming back up aad er up, 
He arrived before the tahsil of Chini. 
VIII. 
A Historical Ode. 
The following ode is said to have been composed in 1888, 
when the late Tiké Raghunath Singh, C.I.E., was sent for by 
his father-in-law, the Raja of Maiidi. Thence he paid a visit 
to Rawalsar 
Tithang ndaydm bite, sémnet tithang, 
Sdmnet tithang, Rawdlséri thoring, 
Rawédls6ri thoring, débar laye bére, 
Débar liye aR M andi Raja tukto, 
Maidi Rajé mani, Bashdhro Tikdé Séhibd, 
Bashihro Tiké Sahibi, rupayd chharba tire. 
Translation. 
We may go to bathe in Rawalsar,! 
The famous sacred place, 
At midda 
Is that the Raja of Majidi who is coming down ? 
No, not the Raja of Maiidi,” but the Tika Sahib of 
Bashshr 
Who is coming raining coin. 
IX.—Tue Sona or Wazik Ran BanaDurR SINGH. 
The following Song was composed in 1897, when the late 
Tiké Raghunath Singh, C.I.E., summoned the late Wazir Ran 
ombpee Singh to eee his trial for sedition in Dodraé 
Kwar. 
Yochdlo den ta, nydtang chaprast, 
5 ri, 
Waziri bistént, wazir tashé md-esh ? 
Waziris thu — ii? Hed ta thu létak, 
oe eran, a sacred baiiens! in Mandi territory 
of the late Raja Maiidi was Bijay Sén, and the late 
ike Satay ‘of f Bashéhr was his son-in-law 
