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A Grammar of the ChhattisgarM dialect. 
A fool. 
His cows and buffaloes are dead ; so be ties the neck-log to the 
goat’s neck. (A hhar'pari is the neoklog tied to a cow or buffalo to 
prevent it attacking people). (24). 
siTKt-# II II 
A test of strength. 
We know (the strength of) the Tef’/ca-worm, from (the distance 
of) the garden- wall (it can run up to). (25). 
rfr '3'rf^ ^sn^rr sn#) n ii 
A poor man feels the harden of useless children. 
When a man loses wealth, (he finds out that) one-eyed grand- 
children have been born to him. (26). 
nd Sira, ^^>ra ii ii 
, Foolish pride. 
He goes to beg for buttermilk yet hides behind him the earthen 
pot. (27) 
fliflKraf »iT5r ^at^i ii n 
A poor devil ! 
He hasn’t a rag on his loins, and of course (sarcastically) he 
eats betel. (28). 
siT^, ^ giT n II 
Just like his impudence ! 
Great people are being washed away by the flood, the shepherd 
is saying “ ferry me across.” (29). 
^ srr^, fk II n 
A carpet-knight ! ! 
He knows warlike gestures, he knows how to flourish arrows. 
“ My dear Sir, please fetch some clarified butter.” (Heroes eat 
much clarified butter. The sentence is ironical). (30). 
’rai tKT ftl JI§, 
II II 
Procrastination. 
He took an hour to search for and examine the scythe, and 
another hour in sharpening it ; it is already late (lit., the time is 
descending), and now ho wants to tie the bandies tighter. (31). 
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