160 J. Beames — Bhapsodies of Gamhhir Bdi. [August, 



Omitting one line vvhicli is not quite clear, we come to the lines 



^T«T^ ^ ^CT^T ^r^^^T «I «T3Ifr f^'^ II 



Wft rrr^TK: ^ ^ft ii^ ^ ^-^T^ ^T II 

 King of kings, great king, lord Jagat Singh, 

 The fullness of thy sword is a disguise of Bhavani. 

 Also ^Wt ^3T TT^ T^ ^ ^ ^^rr ^cT II 



^W ^ WT% -^^ ^ rT gT^T^ ^T II 



5T^^ W ^TT "^W^ ¥f ^ ^TT II 



^ cr^i^T ^^ ^^ ^t"?t ^^^^ w\ II 



To this day Kaos and poor men in the field they lie rotting, 



As many tall sons of the Turkani as they left there. 



The born they slew, the unborn they destroyed through fear ; 



On seeing thee approach, .the wombs of the Mughul women fell. 



This translation does not satisfy me, but it is very difficult to get closer 

 than a paraphrase to a style so defiant of grammar. One method of 

 dividing the first line is ^rr ^ir tpT STTfT " the (tent) pegs have fallen," but 

 this is deficient inasmuch as it supplies no correlative to the " tall sons" of 

 the next verse. xfrT ^Tff is hardly in om' author's style, though he may 

 have, as I suspect also in other places, here used purposely an archaic phrase. 

 A better rendering still would be " in the fields of rich and poor," the fields 

 round Mau being naturally the property of Jagat Singh's Raos, and of his 

 poorer subjects, while the Turks cannot well be called E,aos. ^ is of course 

 the old Hindi genitive, modem W[. It will be observed that the employ- 

 ment of the three genitive participles is totally at variance with the practice 

 of the modern language, where we should expect gT^T^ ^ m{ in the 

 plural. The most wildly ungrammatical line, however, is the last. Literally 

 •it runs 



Thou, hast looked, a meeting, the womb fell, &c. 



The idea of the women miscarrying through fear, is the same as that in 

 the Ramayan of Tulsi Das (Sundara Kand), where Hanuman is leaving 

 Lanka 



^^rr -iT^ ^f^ 31T^^ ^Tft II 

 3IV ^^ ^f^ 1%f^^T ■^f^ II 



Going he roared with mighty sound 



Hearing it, the wombs of the she-fiends melted. 



In the line of Gambhir I take as will be seen ^T^T^T for fif^lTT, but in 

 this as in many other passages, there are several ways of translating, all of 

 which may be equally well defended. 



After several pages of vague descriptions of fighting in the traditional 

 Hindi style, we come to the following strophe in praise of Jagat Singh's 

 exploits. 



