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Ba’d tar khhalk maslahat i chud. Lovd : “ Yi adam tar Padskhah khez 
bazam. Az mard kaul, et 18 az zan fel.” 12. Wi adam en ramad, yii sut 
Padskhah khez-ande, salam i chud. Lovd : “ Wu aleikum as-salam. Eh ! 
khanah-i-padar mubarak bashad. 1 Tu khub khub pond at 26 sar chugj. 
13. Ba’d yii kissa i zokht, lovd-e : “ Padskhah-i-’alam ! Mu-ir 31 tar tu 
khez Wazir-bachah bokht. Wi ata 16 katti dis shart at 26 chugjit. 32 Pad- 
skhah-en 6 kal-ird ti tsa yadhd, wadh az khu kaul na gardhen. Yem chiz 
sut ?” 
14. Ba’d Padskhah lovd: “ Injavid di! Surb di 29 ghaiv-ti 21 tis- 
kinid. Yi gad-ird pand-yad sod.” 15. Ba’d yii chorik naskhtud, khu sut 
tar Wazir-bachah khez. Wazir-bachah wind-e wi, lovd : “ Eh ! di 33 surb 
az di 34 ghaiv-ti 21 zezid.” Wi surb zokht-en. Ba’d sukhan i 17 wi pekhst. 
16. Yii lovd-e: “ Wuz am 35 tama gap am 35 dhad. Padskhah lovd-e: 
‘ Mi ghaiv-ti surb tis-kinid. Yi gad-ird pand-yad sod.’ ” 
17. Wazir-bachah gaskht tar khu wazir-en, sukhan i chud, lovd: 
“ Mash tsi-rang kinam shich,” lovd-e : “ Maslahat kinid.” “ Yi ga adam 
bazam.” Yi ga adam en bokht. 18. Firebt Padskhah-en 36 khez-ande. Ba’d 
az salam, gap i zokht. Padskhah lovd-e : “ Injavid di!” Wazir en 37 lovd : 
“ Eh ! Padskhah-i-’alam, tu awwal gap dhad, akhir yii ziilikik gadha de 38 
idund tambi wedhd ; tama katta de 39 tambi wedhid. Shich de 40 idis ved : 
Baz-i-sufed mu’r var, wuz tu-katti kheshi kinam.” Wi chorik en rukhhsat 
dhad. 19. Sut Wazir-bachah khhez-ande, lovd-e : t( Sher at 41 ya roba ?” 
Lovd : “ Nei, wuz am mudam-ath sher-bachah vod.” Lovd-e : “ Waki’a-i- 
kar 1 ikyam : baz-i-sufed mu’r vird.” 
20. Ba’d yii gaskht tar khu waziren, lovd : “ Anjam kinid.” Ba’d 
en anjam child. Wi’r tuskha 1 anjam en chud. Sahar tar pond en dhad. 
81 Accusative. 
82 Pluperfect. 
83 Adjectival Pronoun, Accusative. 
84 Substantival Pronoun, Genitive. 
35 Terminational pronouns 1st pers. (one of them probably superfluous). 
86 Probably the Plural of respect. 
37 p or « Waziren lovd-en.” The plural affix of the noun and of the verb being 
the same, is not repeated ; one serves for both. 
38 A particle which seems to serve many purposes. Here it would seem to answer 
to Mh in Persian, viz., “ that”, conj., used for relative pronoun. 
89 Here it was explained as forming a comparative. In the Gaddi (Hind.) dialect 
there is a similar word, e. g. bar a dea gal “ a big-like matter.” 
40 ? di (this). 
41 The separable term or pronoun of the 2nd pers. sing, used without the verb 
substantive (see Remark 3, p. 168 of my Paper on the Ghalchah Languages, As. Soc. 
Journal, Pt. I, for 1876.) 
