776 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Extra No. 



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White 



" Like a star shining in the sky. 55 



(In this Theocritean discourse a girl is supposed to be 



testing the wits of a cowherd who wants to marry 



her). 



tjt%«, pdlet, n.f., a cow or buffalo that has failed to be covered 



at the proper time. 



*#fr, pdlri, n.f., a basket holding 10 or 12 sers of grain. 

 ^T^ift, pdlti. n.m., foundling, adopted child. 

 ^ff^Jpr pdlputr, n.m., a waif, brought up in one's house. 



*n^W, pdhkas, n.m., other village than one's own ; cf. the reve- 

 nue term pdhi kdsht = cultivation by an outsider. 



*n^*nw 5 pdhgdm, n.m., as pdhlcas (q.v.). 



fq^t pindi, n.f., body. 



f*TWWl\ pichhwd, n.f. or adj., as pachhwd (q.v.). 



ftj«§re 



squash the canes in the wooden sugar press. 



" Kal Ice pench laqde Jce, holhu dene lagi sarkdr. 



" Ldwen zamihddr pir len gahde, dhore dhore chalen 



pdnch he dhdnde. 



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ci Pirid hi hismat hhoti, milti nahin chihni roti. 

 The Sirkar's began to introduce the machine sugar press. 

 The people get it : they squash the canes ; round go 

 the poor old five-bob bullocks. 



Ill's the squasher's luck, 

 He gets no buttered bread. 

 (In the iron press there is no need to break up the 

 canes before pressing and the pirid has disappeared). 



f<J^n\ pirwd, n.f., the 1st day of either half of the month, badi 



or sudi (q.v.). 



firm, pita, n.m.. father, used chiefly by Pandits (also in Jhajjar 



by Jats). 



i c Mdh par dhi , pita par ghord , bahut nahin to thord 



A girl favours her mother and a horse it's sire. 

 It's so a bit if not entirely. 



ftnrer, pipayd, n.m., a cuckoo (hierococcyx varius). 



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Popularly believed to have a hole in the 

 neck, its only method of drinking being 

 to catch rain drops in the hole. The 

 superstition is based on the fact perhaps 

 that its note, which is very like the tot s 

 but less rising and harsh, is heard in the 

 rains only. 



