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Answer. 



The above contains a series of puns on the names of a family, partly, 

 in Sindhi. The name of the country Dadar contains in the last syllable 

 ' dar' the allusion to fear. The name of the mistress Begam, read as ' be- 

 _5'Aam,' is the equivalent of ' bar-karar.' The sister's name is Hauri, the 

 mother's Gauri, meaning in Sindhi light and heavy. The son's name Shah- 

 sawar, the fathers (r/iaibi, and the grandfather's Haiyat explain themselves. 



9. Huc/7;a pakko kuzraten banda palii(7i 

 Rusul Muhammad e?J uramatwali 

 Hazarejj banday/* yaken thali 

 ChamocZAa khas no roth horg o khali 

 Hamo(7/;a giptho harchi di wartha-ish 

 Hama whan zurtho lojlik di artha-ish 

 Guda \?itUo bhorentho thali ujartha-ish 



After an invocation to God and the prophet — 



There are a thousand men to one dish, 



No one goes thence empty-handed 



There they take and eat everything 



They take up the dish and carry it home, 



And having thrown it down and broken it they leave it bare. 



Answer. — This contains a pun on thali, which means the hedge round 

 a threshing-floor as well as a dish. After every one has carried away the 

 corn he wants, the hedge also is torn down and carried away. 

 10. Daiiki shaha parwarew khaptha maw loffh buna 



Ni ki h^nd&ffhan razentha hitJia. pha husn o pharaw 

 Wash hsidith o khush lisan 

 ^oth go phule?i ambala?^ 



As long as God had charge of him he lay at home ; 

 Now that men have constructed him he has become fresh and fair. 

 With sweet discourse and pleasant speech 

 He walks about with his fair companions. 

 Answer. — A man with a wooden leg. 

 11. Pyalae phurew di^/ia majai 

 Nishtha////a lalo nestai'/a dai 

 Pyalae wartho lal shahid hiths, 

 Chonau ki kuUcH alima Aitlm 



I saw a cup in a certain place 

 A bright one sat down without an attendant 

 This ruby like one drank up the cup, and then died 

 So that all men saw it. 



