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Don't eat karela (a sort of vegetable) in Asauj, or 

 molasses in Chet, or greens in Sawan. 



It's spending a cowrie from your purse and buying sick- 

 ness, if you do. 



Tfar. roj 9 n.m., the nilgde, antelope. 



^ftafWlT rotihdr % n.f., bread- carrier, carrying bread to the field. 



" Sawan paihli panchwin, je dharuke bdl 

 11 Tu karithd hal jorio, main ieri rotihdr.' 9 



If it thunders on the dark 5th of Sawan 

 Do you, my husband, yoke the plough : I'll bear your 

 food to the fields. 



^RT^f qn **w, rotydn kd waqt, n.m., evening meal time, the 



same time as diva bale. 

 ^?ft, roli 9 n.f. t rust on wheat. 

 Otn«ir, rolnd, v a., to smooth, to sift (by rubbing with the 



hands). 

 fte, ros, n.m., displeasure, anger. 

 ^N^t, rosli, n.f., loam. 

 tff. raunjh, n.m., a tree, same as nimbar (acacia leucophloea). 



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,langhan : n.m., fasting. 



" Hansd to moti chuge, nd langhan hi kar jde 

 €t Manx pardni prit se y kankar chug chug khde.' 



The goose eats pearls or else goes hungry. 

 But out of old admitted friendship, he picks at lime- 

 stone nodules. 



(The goose who lived on pearls was friend of a weaver bird. 

 In his devotion he followed the bird to distant land- 

 where he could get only kankar to eat). 



^wn, lakhdnd, v.n., to look at, gaze, stare. 

 ^ft«rr. lakhind, n.m., one who owns lakhs. 



"China lahu pind, bald mare pachas sdth kd, mdnas 



mare lakhind" 

 China drinks blood— a bullock worth 50 or 60 Rs. dies, 



and a man worth a lakh. 

 (China is said to be a most difficult grain to grow). 



wvil lakhpati, adj., worth 1,00,000 rupees, so very rich. 

 **W\. lakshmi, n.f., wealth (literally the goddess thereof). 



