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282 V. A. Smith— Popular Songs of the Hamirpur District. M, II. [Ho. 3 ? 



and widely diffused moral and religions sentiment as do those of the *Dra- 

 vidian peoples, but songs containing an allegory or a moral are numerous. 

 The Oilman's Songs, JSTos. XI and XII, are specimens of this class : my col- 

 lection includes similar songs of the Kewat (fisherman), Mali (gardener) 

 and Kori (Hindii weaver) castes, some of which, as does No. XI, profess 

 to be the composition of Kabir,f and others claim to be the work of Tulsi 

 Pas. There are I believe a good many disciples of Kabir in the district, 

 chiefly among the lower classes. The Oilman's Songs are printed as recited 

 by a Teli of Maudha ; the same songs when recited by a native of Hamir- 

 pur differed only by the substitution of ' bhargayo 7 = ' tired', for girgayo 

 = ( fallen', in line 2 of No. XI, and in the transposition of the words 

 milaniydn and cMJcaniydn. 



I still refrain from making any detailed examination of the verbal 

 forms in these songs, in the hope of being able to examine the Bundelkhand 

 dialect and sub-dialects at another time with the help of fuller materials. 



It is necessary, however, to observe that the more characteristic forms 

 and words of Bundelkhandi must be sought for in the southern parganahs of 

 the British districts of Hamirpur, Banda, and Jhansi and in the adjoining 

 native states. The speech of the Lodhis, of which song ISTo. X is a 

 specimen, has some peculiarities of its own. The forms of Hindi spoken in 

 Parganah Maudha in the east of the Hamirpur district, are intermediate 

 between the dialect of the Doab and that of southern Bundelkhand, and the 

 songs now published are all (except No. X) specimens of this intermediate 

 variety of Hindi. JThe Hardaul songs which formed the subject of my 

 last paper, were obtained from a Kayath woman in Hamirpur ; and there 

 is not much difference in the forms used in the Parganahs of Hamirpur, 

 Sumerpur, and Maudha. 



I. The Suna'r's (Goldsmith's) Song, 

 ^prcr 1% sis fwi: 



^ 3*TTC T^T *Bt|R *JTTOT ^T*ft W 3ITf fa^t 



*rfw Ifar *ttk^ %?tt ^#T^t ^T*rf f^ wr£ 



* See Gover's Folk Songs of Southern India passim. 



t For some account of Kabir see Introduction to Dr. Fallon's New Hindustani 

 Dictionary, pp. VIII to X. 



J In my last paper I overlooked a paragraph in Beames' Elliott, Vol. I, p. 269, 

 which gives a brief notice of the Hardaul legend, differing in some respects from mine. 



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