1838.] 



Grammar of the Panjdbi Language. 



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Tusi odarna nehin jedi gal mango 

 sohi hazar, e eh tuhadaapna ghar,e 

 dusra nehin janna 



Asi apne kam kaj wich rudde renne- 

 yan ne tan dam dam wich tuhade 

 kul ponchiye 

 Is hauzte tuhada ki March aya,e 

 Hazar ek rupaya laga howega asade 

 sabkar nu pakki Mabe,e uskolon 

 puchke das devvange je tuhanu 

 bahut lod e tan 



Don't make yourself uneasy, what- 

 ever you want shall be forthcom- 

 ing ; this is your own house and 

 not a strange one. 



I am busy about my own affairs or 

 I would be with you every mo- 

 ment. 



What have you spent on this cistern ? 



It might have cost me a thousand 

 rupees or so, but my steward 

 knows the exact sum and will tell 

 you if you particularly require 

 and will ask him. 

 Dialogues. 

 Illustrative of the private character of the Ruler of Lahore. 



Maharaj ji, Kabul da ikbar ayi e 



Hi jar karo 



Maharaj ji hajar e 



Fakir horanu bulao 



Fakir ji hajar ho,o 



Sardar Dost Mamada,e ya kisse hor 



da,e 

 Maharaj ji, Sardar Sahabda,e 

 Hacha pado ki likhya e 

 A^pdi umur daraz hove vih bhai' 



dalide do ghode ek talwar hazui* 



mu allade waste hazar en hazur 



kabul far maun 



Nikka Mishar hazar hove 



Maharaj ji ershad 



Mishar ji, tusi Beliram horan kol 

 jao ek hathi hauda chandi da ek 

 banduk Sindhy, Gujrathi talwar 

 das jode dushalyande rang birangi 

 hache mahin howan Dost Mamad 

 waste bhej do fakir ji tusi hi likho 

 teda sadda rah hek cjiahi da agge 

 istbon hoi bandobast pakka ban 

 jiswich tun saukha rahen, nehin 

 tan Sarkar Dassera karke chadan 

 wali, e na kahin jo mainu kha.br 

 nehin kiti ne 



Jo Haziirne ershad farmaen Hkhe 

 gai en 



Wakil nal tor deo 



Raja saheb horanu bulao 



Mabaraj ji, hajar an 



I^AJa ji, panj ardaliapne bhej deo ate 

 ja ba ja likh bhejo jo ek saheb 

 Attock wale rah on awnden sau sau 

 rupeya majal ba majal, ata, wih 



News from Cabul has arrived your 

 highness. 



Bring the man in. 



He is here your highness. 



Call the faqueer. 



Will you please to come in faqueer? 



Is the letter from Sardar Dost Mu- 

 hammad, or from any one else ? 



It is from the Sardar your highness. 



Well read what is in it. 



May your age be great : twenty loads 

 of fruit, two horses and a sword, 

 are here for your supreme high- 

 ness ; will your highness deign to 

 accept them ? 



Here, Nikka Mishar. 



Your highness, what orders ? 



Mishar, do you go to Beliram and 

 send for Dost Muhammad an ele- 

 phant with a silver houda, a Sin- 

 dhian matchlock, a Guzerati sword, 

 ten pairs of shawls; let them be 

 fine and of different colors: and, 

 faqueer, do you write and say his 

 and my road is one, and that he 

 must make some good arrange- 

 ment, by which he may live com- 

 fortable ; or else the Sarkar in- 

 tends to march on him after the 

 Dussera ; and tell him not to say 

 he was not forewarned. 



What your highness ordered, is writ- 

 ten. 



Send it by the Vakil. 



Call the Rajah ? (Dhyan Singh). 



I am here your highness. 



Raja, send five of your own orderlies 

 and write to every place that a 

 gentleman is coming by the At- 

 tock road ; give him one hundred 



