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Vocabulary of the Baraky Language. 



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Jhale log nasihat dende koun sang 



wicho dedi jhale 

 Bhale aid jehe clihad jande jithe 



ishk marenda bhale 

 Palle akl na raM Kalandar jay ishk 



ave ith palle. 

 Chasm bandu/M ten surma ranjak 



tode zulf pa/f/*a,e 



Goli hhh\ disse mukh upparjanoh 

 shest kara,e 



Oli mare dilnu mul na kusse jan oh 

 kas chalae 



Par Kalandar matlab tayyen pae 

 jahan apna ap koha,e 



Dukhandi main punchi pai mere 

 pair sughlan nal tarode 



Alnn nal parotyan hanjun vekh 

 ishkede zore 



Har singar kita sab ghnm da jadh 

 main thon yar wichode kuk Ka- 

 landar rab dadhe agge mat pawan 

 hotana mode 



Jhalke nakin tab ishk da main kahil 



kit j jhalke 

 Chalke bir hun de munh ai huna 



jawan kith wal chalke 

 Ralke dukhan sulan kuthi sukh gae 



asathon ralke 



Kalke jamme haran maja/^an pai 

 jan Kalandar kalke 



Bearish people reprehend me, but 

 who can bear the spear of absence ? 



Standard wits are lost where love 

 plants his standard. 



Kalandar possesses no wisdom when 

 love possesses him. 



Eye for gun, antimony for priming 

 and ringlets for a match which is 

 lighted. 



That mole appearing on thy check 

 is a bullet when you present it to 

 the mark. 



She is aiming at my heart but can- 

 not strike it though she loads 

 and fires. 



But know, Kalandar, you will then 

 gain your ends when you strike 

 yourself. 



I have arrived at the summit of 

 pain ; my feet have anclets of 

 thorns. 



By sighs my tears have been forced 

 out, behold the force of love ! 



I decked myself in mourning weeds 

 when my love parted from me ! 

 entreat Kalandar before all-pow- 

 erful God that your " hot*" may 

 return. 



The fire of love does not kindle, I 

 am kindled after long patience. 



I threw myself into the fire, now 

 how shall I get through. 



Thorns and grief have left me pros- 

 trate, and pleasure has quite left 

 me. 



The child of yesterday is roasting 

 me. The soul of Kalandar is 

 roasting. 



A Vocabulary of the Baraky Language. 

 Introduction. 



The Barakis are included in the general term of Pars! wan, or Tajakf ; 

 they are original inhabitants of Yemen whence they were brought by 

 Sultan Mahmu'd of Ghazni ; they accompanied him in his invasion 

 of India, and were pre-eminently instrumental in the abstraction of 

 the gates of the temple of Somnath. There are two divisions of the 

 tribe. The Barakis of Rajan in the province of Lohgad, who speak 



* Proper name. 



T The popular derivation of the word Tajak is that the ancestors of that tribe 

 were the keepers of the Taj (crown) of the Arabian prophet, Taj besides meaning a 

 kingly crown is applied to the distinguishing cap of a Muhammadan fakir (hermit). 

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