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MISCELLANEA. 



I. Six South-radian Airs. 



rPHE Society is indebted to E. R. H., an accomplished lady, 

 JL for five of the South-Indian airs now, it is believed, for 

 the first time published. She took them down from the sing- 

 ing of her aya, a Tamil woman, named Annamma, and J. T. 

 Mayne, Esq., Organist of St. George's Cathedral, has been 

 good enough to arrange them so as to preserve their origi- 

 nal simplicity. Of the nine airs collected by E. R. H. No. 

 1 is stated to be 'A hymn sung by the Muhamadans when 

 Allah manifests himself to the people :' No. 2, 1 An Indian 

 song :' No. 3, ' A hymn in honour of R6ma :' No. 4, ' A 

 war cry of the Mahrattas when fighting against the English :' 

 No. 5, ' Chingar£ Bangla, song composed in praise of 

 Murugappa Mudaliyar's Bungalow :' No. 6, ' A mother's 

 Lamentation on the death of her daughter :' No. 8, 'Dhobi's 

 song :' No. 9, * A lamentation supposed to be sung by a 

 dove on her young being stolen from the nest.' 



The cradle song No. 6, has already been printed with words 

 by Monckton Milnes ' (Lord Houghton)' entitled The In- 

 fant's Three Sabbaths, and an accompaniment by the Rev. 

 J. Griffiths, :.r. A., which the Editor has taken the liberty to 

 reprint here. 



The Tamil words to this song, in the Tamil character, are 

 as follows : — 



Laru-ULjrriTGev, 3=ir<^^, 



LOtl$GsV } (Zj&Qed, «F/T(^^, 

 G & IT aSl SO L-j IT IT (? 61/ , & (T (gj gd>/ , 



^mesT dS<sftiGuj } &t 

 Which is, being interpreted, 



" Swing, Baby, swing '. 

 Swan-dove, swing ! 

 House-pigeon, swing 1 

 Peacock, cuckoo, swing ' 

 Cassia-flower, swing ! 

 Standing-lamp, swing ! 

 Temple- dove, swing ! 

 Swan, parrot, swing P' 



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