) 



1876.] V. A. Smith — Popular Songs of the Samtrpur District. No. II. 289 



All instruments he plays with his own hands, those who hear his flute 

 are much delighted. 



Night and day he clears away dirt for other people, and never shows 

 ill-temper. 



X. 



The Lodhi"s Song. 



%Tf*ref m 3ftcT | 

 %^ % TETT %R *WTT 

 %T3I^^T 3TC W^*: f^T ^f^T ^^ TOT WTT 



qrc tiff^i t%^ *rc wter <stt ji^t^t t*ut f«iwrT 



#T^^T ^ m*T $T *I^RT wft ^TT^T W^ *1TTT 



The Lodhls' house-folk* are their women, — 



[The Lodhi woman] putting men aside, girt with her waist-cloth, f 

 packing^ dhdh leaves between her bangles, 



Puts her little girl to bed in a basket on her head, with a wrapper 

 ^tbove and a -cloth spread underneath ; 



Stubbing up briars and brambles, and scraping up grass, she does her 

 weeding ; 



Kodo§ bread, and gram pottage, mahud paste, and mahud sweetmeats 

 she makes and eats ; 



Attaching the bucket, she works the Persian]] wheel and well, and 

 waters the sugarcane j 



* Logoxlugwd (and in MaudM lugaund) means here i males' as distinguished 

 from lugcd 6 women', and the words are so used in common speech, 



f Kustd = the waist-cloth, but little fuller than a man's dhoti, worn by adult 

 women of the lower castes, and by yoking girls of the higher castes in Bundelkhand ; it 

 leaves most of the leg bare, 



t i, e. to prevent the bangles from being troublesome and interfering with her 

 work. The form patdi seems to be used only for the sake of the rhyme. 



§ Kodwan is plural. Bwdt&, not rot£, is always used to mean bread made of 

 Jcodo or sdwdn. The mahud (Bassia latifolia) is very abundant in the Hamirpur dis* 

 trict, and its flowers are much used for food. 



II The Persian wheel (rahat) is in this district used only in the southern parganahs* 

 Bardhi or harhddk the Biindelkhandi synonym for the ikh or uhh of other parte of the 

 country. 





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