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{N.8.] 
The Tika Sahib ae ‘*Do you not hear my order ? 
What do you say ? 
Then going up and ever up, he reached the plain of 
Thangi’ village, 
And in Nyokché* ‘Negi’s house 
Is the daughter of the nee 
eryum 
me ; 
Because my wife, a girl of Yula* village of the Shwal® 
sept, is not a kind woman : 
She will beat you: you must not come with me, but I will 
take care of you from afar.’ 
A Love Sone. 
PapamM® D&Asi’s Sona. 
The following song was composed at the time of the settle- 
ment of the Bashahr State by the late Tika Raghundéth Singh, 
C.LE., in 1889 :— 
Toling shénang damyd, nawda naklu kachya, 
Harmdlche losho, jimi paimash lino, 
Tika Sahibi munshi, Lobha’ dang Brinddban, 
Jimi paimdsh léno , Tanam * maidano. 
Padam Dasi banthin, thu chhandol maidol, 
Gachhydngo zedpug rang, boringo botal dang. 
Padam Dasis losho, Lobhé munshi ham tan ? 
Payin Gyambung® bite, Sunam' ba-sd-te. 
Lobhad munshis lodo, gu Gyambung ma-bugq, 
Ang hanzart garban, dng baho parmi, 
Ang baho parmi, dng nydtang pajr. 
Salas bodyada, Padam dang Lobha, 
LA oe village in Inner Tukpa pargand. | 
2 A sept of Kanets found in Thangi, a village in Inner Tukpé 
 pargand 
8 The name of Nyokché Negi’s daughter of Thangi village. 
4 A village in Rajgaon parga 
5 A sept of Kanets found in Yula, a village of Rajgéom parg 
6 Padam Dasi, daughter of Tapdan Chhering of Taling wine. is 
now Se wife of Zor Par, grokch of Labrang, : 
1 Lobh& munshi of Urni village is now a patwari of the Outer 
Tukpé pargand 
The > hated of a level place near Sunam. 
9 A village in Gatigyul deh near Sunam. 
10 A village in Shaw4 pargand 
