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(c) On a spring day [there are] three colds and three warmths 
In a lifetime [there are] three happy [hours] and three 
unfortunate [hours]. 
{d) Misery and happiness are well balanced in man’s life. 
(e) Spid nyin is a Compositum determma tivum formed from 
spidha and nyima. Also drangsum, drosum, etc., must 
be considered as Composita, which accounts for the 
missing articles ; the termination la to be pronounced a. 
2. (a) 
(5) skyid’dug mi’la, dzer’pa shing’la. 
(c) Fortune [comes] to man, [as] a knot to the tree. 
(d) No man knows the cause of a knot in a tree, just so 
unexpectedly misery and fortune come to certain 
people. 
(e) Skyiddug is Comp, copulativum. 
3. (a) 
(6) thigs’pa sag’na gya’thso gang’. 
(c) If drops gather, [there is] a full ocean. 
(d) Gang, though of verbal derivation, is often used without 
an article to express the adjective “ full.” 
4. (a) 
(6) Ma’shroi nag’rang dang lug’khog zam’ 
slel dos’moche dang yag’khog zam’. 
(c) With [at the time of] the nagrang festival at Mashro 
[the heat] is as great as the body of a sheep. 
With the dosmoche festival at Leh it is like the body of 
a Yak. 
(d) From the peasant’s calendar. Because the festival at 
Leh is celebrated several weeks after that in Mashro, 
it is warmer then. 
(e) Maspro = great joy. Though in this proverb the 
original pronunciation of Leh = 5ZeZ is retained, in 
ordinary speech s and I are dropped; final I shows a 
great inclination to disappear. Sheh, a village on the 
Indus, was originally spelt shel — crystal, because crystals 
are found in the surrounding hills. Oyapo is said 
instead of gyalpo, etc. Siel is supposed to have been 
