1881.] 



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them, wearing beautiful ivory bracelets, wbite as fresh drawn milk, slipped 

 on over her soft arms. She entreated and implored them saying, ' Boys, 

 leave the lizard alone, it is my refugee. Do so much for me, for your own 

 honour's sake.' 



The boys, ignorant and boorish camel-herds, killed the lizard witli 

 sticks. Her husband and lord was not there. She sent a complaint to 

 him by letter, saying, ' If you do not go and fight on account of this lizard 

 I am your sister and you are my brother !' Hot returned to his home, and 

 the hero thus answered back ' Hear Amul-mai« ! hear Amul-mai?j ;' stay 

 where you are, do not speak. 



I will act in such a way about this lizard that the ground will be 

 filled with blood, and corpses lying sixty on one side and fifty on the other, 

 all collected into one place for the lizard's sake, as when Omar was released 

 on his own promise, as when Balach took his revenge for blood, or the 

 hero Doda for the cattle. 



V. 



The Competition letween the Poets Sohhd and QdM. 



Part I. Sobha addresses Gahi on the question of the 'La.ghiri refugees 

 with Jawanak, and taunts his tribe on their modern origin. 



[These four poems constitute a complete specimen of a kind of exer- 

 cise not uncommon among Baloch poets. Sobha a Khosa and Gahi a 

 La^7«ari draw comparisons between their tribes and chiefs, challenging 

 each other's claim to have come in with the original settlers under Mir 

 Cliakar, and taunting each other witli failing in the exercise of the cardi- 

 nal Baloch virtue, hospitality to refugees. Relan the Dom minstrel is 

 commission by each poet to learn the words of his song, and to carry it 

 back, and recite it in the assembly of the hostile tribe. The Lay/faris and 

 Khosas are old enemies, and their hostility still smoulders after thirty 

 years of British rule.] 



Sobha Ihegh All gushi : Jarwarew Baloch, gushi : Khosagh Kaloi 

 karakuta gushi : Lay/niri bautiya?? kharde gSl gushi : 



Whazh-gushew Eelana s\\kdh\\yin\ shay/ta bare 

 Mai» salama bi shairew Gahiya diye 

 Nishtho ^Yor/lrAwi zawana wash khane, 

 Evvakhi sera go manaw chachlion tule ? 

 Bhvichari Dalan kilat nam gire 

 Nuh-mane?J barawra wa^7^ar ka7?s diye 

 Jawanak urdciiii ray/taza roshe khafe 



