1869.] The Nineteenth Booh of the Gestes of PritJdrdj. 159 



(25) kwsj 3?3nr = ^ffwsr- (26) sr^r = sra *■ e - *ni 



(27) I read g5T WZ* 3T*T sp^T IK i. e. JRT ( = 3T^T) ^T^Tf %^C ^T 

 ^PC^ - % (^^TO 35^t) Wxj ^PC, hero of heroes, monarch, leader. 



(28) fare^T^^raf»fi •fTFCfT the meaning of which is not evident, nor 

 how the words should be divided. 



(29) This line varies in the two MSS. Tod has f^Jjr ^TftT nsi 

 ^ ^TT ^RTr II Agra %t; 3F5T ^a* ^s^T^T ^T II I adopt the latter with 

 the change of the last word to ^^T No verb ^fi«iT exists in Hindi, but 

 in Sindhi there is ^TW to overthrow, cause to fall, and ^fiT^T is used 

 in Panjabi in the sense of scattering. 



(30) Both MSS. have ^f% which is absurd. I propose to read sife 

 which is the earlier form of ^fk, as the setting of the sun and not its 

 rising must be meant. 



(31) I read with Agra tjr #K ^ ^ fRT i«T ^H5f. This last word 

 only occurs when a rhyme is required for "qTT^r ; it would seem to be 

 connected with Hindi ^Taj (Sansk. ^T^), clean. I look on it as an ex- 

 pletive and translate it ' outright.' Tod's version of this line is 

 unintelligible. The whole of this Bhujangi is very corrupt. The Agra 

 leaves out three whole lines and patches up a fourth with part of one line 

 and part of another. It differs also entirely in some lines from Tod, 

 but oddly has rather the better readings of the two. 



(32) The word translated ' selecting' is xn^fa, which is for xpcfs - 

 participle of a verb ^^3"«rf, the last syllable lengthened metri gratid. 

 It occurs once before in this book at stanza 22, where I have translated 

 it ' prepared.' It is probably the Sanskrit fsrf^^grT, which would 

 be in Prakrit qfef T, whence xff^sj and xpre. Chand is not particular 

 about ^ and ?: : thus we have MKtf for xr^rf , «T ^ for 5T ^, etc. The 

 meaning would be to fix, settle, arrange, place, apply, etc. cf. Benfey 

 s. v. ^J, also Bopp. Gloss. Comp. ib. 



(33) tre«?X lit. ' six dresses.' I suppose this to mean dresses of 

 honour, as we should say ' khil'ats of six pieces.' 



(35) The whole of this passage in brackets is omitted from the 

 Agra MS., and I think it is an interpolation. The style is different 

 from the rest, and it is somewhat out of place in the story. Moreover 

 the last line of 44 is repeated in the first line of 46, as well as in the 

 beginning of 35, which is unusual. The sixth line is partially unintel- 

 ligible to me. 



