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ST*t 



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



[t.e., these castes make bad cultivators and it is better 

 to take a fixed cash rent from them than to divide 

 the produce (of which there will be little).] 



* V -L — O ~ .7 ~ 7 — ~ / 



* s Sdihi pake sdth din, pdni mange rat din." 

 Red rice ripens in 60 days, but needs water night and 

 day. 



*ra 



; ?^ft 



years occupied by the revolutions of vSaturn — hence : mis- 

 fortune, calamity, 



Mat 



par 



jib liyo paihle liyo jor" 



Look not at the dun's teeth, misfortune will over- 

 shadow you, husband. Buy a red bullock for a 

 hundred thousand, or a blue for nine hundred times 

 that: don't buy a hornless or white one without 

 yoking it first. 



*TC 



* * ? ? 



c\ 



u Sddh Sdwan chale parwd, dal dal khdwen bij lugdi. 



If east wind blow in Ear and Sdwan, the women folk 

 will grind and eat seeds. 

 (A sign of famine.) 



sddhu, n.m., 1. Wife's sister's husband. 



2. The spring harvest. 



W!?f, sdten, n.f. 5 the 7th day of either half of the month 

 'Bnffr. sdni, n.f., chopped fodder of bdjrd, jowdr, cane, etc. 



' 1 5 



" Awegi jot, kdtiye sdni 



i( Jab til ne bo diyd inkh meri nd mdni. 



In comes the yoke — cut fodder : for you sowed cane 



and bode not my word. 

 (The wife girds at her husband: he sowed cane against 



her advice: there'll be extra feeding of the cattle 



who have extra work at the press.) 



WR, sdman, n.f., as sdwan (q.v.) 



" Sdman lagti satwin, garje ddhi rat 



"Ham to jdmge pi Mdlwe turn jdyo Gujrdi" 



If it thunder at midnight on the seventh of the second 

 half of Sawan, I'll go, my husband, to Malwa and 

 do you go to Gujrat. 



(A sign of impending famine.) 



^THrr. sdmthd, adj 



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