188 G. A. Grierson— Gujarati Dialect discovered in Midnapur. [No. 2, 
habitat of the Bhils is to the south of M§war, where the Central Pro¬ 
vinces, Rajputana, and Gujarat meet. As already stated, their language 
is a dialect of Gujarati, but, according to Mr. Thompson, there is, in the 
vocabulary, a substratum, of about six per cent, of words, which, while 
not corrupted from Gujarati or Arabic and Persian, have no connexion 
with the Dravidian Languages of Southern India, or with Gondi, Santali, 
or Kol. The Siyalgiri seems to have preserved some of these words, 
which have been lost to Bhili. It would be interesting, if possible, to 
trace the wanderings of this tribe from their original home. 
The following is the Siyalgiri version of the Parable of the Prodigal 
Son:— 
X 
I 
X 
STTST* 
M 
maradna 
baya dikrd 
tliBi. 
Tinha bice 
nanha 
A 
man-to 
two sons 
were. 
Their-of among (by) younger 
'SfT’TiJ 
*rrere 
1 
*rre! 
dikrd 
apnu 
babane 
kalie , 
l bdb ! 
mara 
hinksa 
son 
his-own 
father-to 
it-was- 
•said, * O-father! 
my 
share 
*TTT 
t 1 
mara 
de. Inha 
babhain 
hinksa alalia. alalia 
kari 
me-to 
give.’ By him thereupon 
share 
separate separate having-done 
1 
*fT^T 
X 
didha. 
Thbra 
dan rahin 
ndnlia 
dikrd 
was-given. Few 
days remaining 
(with his father) younger 
son 
*TICS fire I ffa 
X X 
pdrha giya. Aur tithe 
country-to went. And there 
khab urai 
all (whole property) wasting 
fisfir <Tt 
kharach-patra kidhi to 
expenditure doing that 
(was thrown away). (having ran through the whole property) 
X 
fire 1 
• 
dekhehB 
bari 
dial 
pari-giya. 
Hiya 
bari 
• 
duklit 
country-in 
great 
famine 
fell. ' 
He 
great 
distressed 
apnu 
his-own 
X N 
khab hinksa lein 
all share taking 
ghanu kharach-patra karin 
much expenditure doing 
didliu. 
was-given 
X 
eglasta 
distant 
apnu 
his-own 
So 
He 
X 
khab 
all 
