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G. A. Grierson — A specimen of the Padumawati. [No. 2, 
but dwell near a sandal-grove, and if thou pierce it, the odour of sandal 
cometh from it. 
O Muhammad, when thou hast found these four friends, and ye all 
became of one soul, when thou hast accomplished their companionship 
in this world, how can they be separated in the next ? 
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23. 1. Ibd tahawft 6 ahu Io taha una kdbitanha kit 1 . Is taha awara, K taha 
awani. 2. Ibs U au bi°, Id binati kara . U kdbitanha. K au pand'ta so binati 
bhdjd lb bhdkhe ... sdlche, Is bhdjd ... sajd. lad mereliu. Is meraehu. U tuti 
mirdi saivarahu sajd. K tutala sawaraba au merabai sajd. 3. N panditanha IT 
pachilagd ... ddgd. Is gai dagd. K kichu kai cahau kathd kara dgd. 4. Ia jo kachu 
P&ji U hiya bhaddra dhi naga p&ji. Is kholu, U lai k&°. Is tdrd lei. K kholau, tala au 
led/ 1 . 5. Is U bole bo.° K bolau bo°. Ia K pema rasa, Ids U pema mada. 6. So Ia. 
Ib kaha tehi bh&kha kaha tehi kdyd, Io kaha, tehi rupa kaha kai kdyd, Id kaha, tehi 
bh&kha kaha tehi mdyd. Is kd tehi bh&kha nida led mdyd. U K kaha, tehi rupa kaha tehi 
mdyd. 7. Ia Idai bhesa. 8. kayd, so U K. It makes good sense. P kabi jo prema kd. 
Is kabi jo pirama kd bhd tana ralcata. 9. Io sund to. Is sund ta. 
23. The city Jayas is a holy spot, there came the poet and told his 
lay. There humbly waited I upon Hindu scholars, and prayed them 1 
to correct and mend the broken (metre ) and arrangement (of my song). 
I am a follower of poets, and I go forward saying my say, and beating 
the drum with the drum-stick to proclaim it. 2 My heart is a treasure- 
house, and it holdeth a store of precious stones. I opened it with the 
key of my tongue and palate. I spoke words, — jewels, and rubies, 
sweet, filled with the wine of love, and priceless. He whose speech is 
1 Bhajd or bliajd, is equivalent to bhrdjd, i. e., prakdqita kid , ‘made manifest, 5 
hence ‘ presented ’ a petition. 
2 Pachaldgd and ddgd would give better metre. Ddgd is a drum-stick. The poet 
means that he is impelled to publish his lay by beat ofdrum, so to speak, i. e., as 
loudly as possible. A simpler rendering is obtained by amending the text to 
kichu kahi calata bola dei ddgd, ‘ saying my say, I progress, setting down the feet 
of Language j in which language is metaphorically compared to a foot, or stop [ddgd) 
