200 J. Beames — The Bhapsodies of GamlMr Edi. [No. 3, 



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Translation. 



Om ! Reverence to S'ri Ganesha ! 

 Thou of the elephant face, he present, then 



Thy face is conquering ohstacles, 

 As when the foot alights on the. road to Parag, 



The mountain of sin melts away. 



%T^ *TT<T = 5T*?cT ^ ' is conquering.' ajTcT for «T^f <T, with substitution of 

 ^f for ^, just as in the fourth line f^lTT for f^W. Or if aTTfT is the 

 present tense of 5TFTT, which is the most natural way to take it, we must 

 make f^lf the nominative and render " obstacles depart from before thy 

 face" ; ft*3 would thus have to be expanded into ^"f TT ^*3 %. The first 

 translation seems preferable. XT^TJT is of course si€JT3T. The elision of ^ is 

 frequently noticed in these poems, the dialect of which may be described 

 as seventeenth century Rajput Hindi of an extreme northwestern type, 

 verging on Panjabi and the Doghra dialects of the hills. 



The next kavitt has already appeared in the Proceedings above quoted, 

 and is here reproduced in order to complete the translation. 

 1. Swelled like the sea Shah Jahan, lord of Dilli, 



Arraying an army of many lakhs, he came and pitched his tent. 



Beautiful, fair-faced, is here Jagat, king of Suineru, 



In the plain of Mau planting the pillar he fought. 



Making hedges and entrenchments, that no one might touch him from afar, 



Restraining the Patshah's forces, he swept with the steel. 



The son of Basudev coming arraying all his honored ones, 



Like a hanjara, having loaded his tdudd, has alighted. 



f^fft is of course Delhi, in its old Hindi spelling. 



The Muhammadan historian does not say that the Emperor himself 



was present at the siege, and from other parts of Gambhir's own poems, it 



would appear that he was not there, though in others he is said to have 



. been present. We must therefore refer ^]*j 3T9T ^ not to the Padishah, 



but to the army. The grammatical construction is excessively loose through- 



