JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I.— HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
No. II.— 1890. 
A Grammar of the Dialect of Ghhattisgarh in the Central Provinces, 
Written in Hindi by Mb. Hiralal KavyopIdhya'ya, Headmaster of 
the Anglo-Vernacular School in Dhamtari, District Raipur, Central 
Provinces, translated and edited by George A. Grierson, Esq., C. S. 
(Continued from p. 49 .^ 
PART VI. 
Specimens of the ChhatUsgarhi dialect. 
Chapter XXVI. Elementary. 
Section I. 
-liW, 
f^Yisr, 
alisr. 
Useful Words and Idiomatic Phrases,* 
money generally, (lit. a score of cowries), 
somewhat, something, 
dwelling place, (lit. house and door), 
to light fire, to begin cooking, to cook, 
to sweep (a place clean ) ; lit. to sweep and 
collect (rubbish), 
to die (lit. to become cold), 
to die (lit. to go on four men’s shoulders). 
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* Verbs are given iu the infinitive form in »f. 
