1847.] Specimen of the Language of the Goonds. 29o 



Sandsumjee-na saka. 

 Sandsiimjee'' s Song . 



Sandsumjee-na saka kuyat, ro Baban, 

 Sandsiimjee' s song hear, O Father. 

 Sark ask kitur, Sing-Baban hille puttur, 

 Six wives he took, Sing-Baba not born, 



Yirrun ask kitur, awite Sing-Baban autarietiir. 

 Seventh wife took, by her Sing-Baba was conceived. 



Aular yetana Baban punwake. 



Of her pregnancy Father was not informed. 



Taksitun Baban, tunwa pari sumpte kiale 

 Departed Father, his kinsfolk being assembled together 



Barike bouke aie penk putta sika. 



For this reason to some one it happened to offer a sacrifice to a God. 



Hikke Sing-Baban putti-le-ai latur. 



Hereupon Sing-Baba began to be born. 



Loro askna sowati, sarun mutta. 



Small ivife was sleeping, the other six were there. 



Awitun, koti aunate tulla diirissi, "assun inga chawa putti," 

 Said they, grain basket's mouth into, her head let us introduce in our 

 house child is born, 



Ud it, ahe kint annate tullatun durritun, 

 So said, so done, into mouth her head introduced, 



(Jimi Sing-Baban pdrtur, 

 And Sing-Baba. was born, 



Sing-Baban techi urmi sarte michitun, 



Sing-Baba having taken up, into Buffaloes stable threw, 



Unni nai-pila taniga dussitun, 

 And a puppy instead placed, 



Unni ittur, nai-jula wattoni, 

 And said, a puppy is born, 



Nai-pUla misate ; tank kawal kede kiate tare kitiin, 

 A puppy having brought forth, thence crows to frighten they set her, 



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