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khhurak i khhud kliu naskhtuid. Wazir-bachah zur i chud, ba azab i yet- 
ckud, khu pis zabo i wi chud. 
82. Daryav i wi child, yii zabod tar gkor. Yem khhafa sut, khu wiz, 
ivd. Deid tar kila. Khu-batli yet, khu jai-ti nust. Khu midhj i zokht 
dar-rao pisen dhet sut. Dive sada chud. Yii khu midhj i zokht khu za- 
bbd tar dive zabo. Az-um Ala-aspa deid. 33. Lovd : “ Eh vrod ! mu 
badi tar hak-i-tu chiz ?” Wi lovd : “ Ti-am, gap tu’r dhad-am.” Ba’d sut. 
Ala-aspa khu wiz i az khu dam-te lachud. Yid sut, ta’am i wi’r viid. Ta’- 
am i khhud et fatiha i lovd. Wazir-bachah andiiid, deg et tabak darrao 
zaned-ao sut. 
34. Ba’d Ala-aspa lovd: “ Mu badi tar hak-i-tu chiz vod ?” Yii 
lovd-e : “Eh ! tu badi tar hak-i-mu nist, wuz et tu am vrod. Wuz am yi 
wakhht khhurak pukkta chud, khu-bath am khhud et tu’rd am lachud. 
Khubath am yat khu jai-ti am khu pattewd. Dive sada chud. Yak-wajabi 
deid. Ba’d i tar 1 burnt i khu’nd nakhvend. Mu dhost padh i vust. Khu¬ 
bath zabod wi ab ta’am i khhud. Ba’d khu-bath naskhtuid. Wuz am zur 
et zur ba azab am khalas khu chud, ba’d pis-zabo am wi child. 35. Dar¬ 
yav am wi child, zabod tar ghor. Wuz am wizivd. Yett-am, khu midhj 
am zokht, ikyund am nust. Dive sada chud, Wuz am zabod, di 38 mi 
pith tsa dedhd, mu mis faro yest. Tu at deid.” Khu birej en wedhd khu 
skhovd-en. 
36. Sahar rukh dhad, Ala-aspa lovd-e : “ Eh, Wazir-bachah ! tu sao 
ghiew, et wuz netham.” Wazir-bachah tuid ghiew, yem dar-rao ab ta’am 
sut. Khurak-i pekht, khu-bath i khhud, wi’rd i lachud. Khu midhj i 
zokht, khu yat ikyum-ande nust. 37. Ikyuwi wakhht vod, dive 
sada chud, et yam mis anduid et yii mis deid. Midhj hawala child, 
wi kal dhad tar pai-gah, wi tana tar dive zabo. 38. Yem zekht-e, khu 
tothch virik i jam’ chud, wikhin ma-sod. Ta mi khhavd-ao-ird 47 wi kal 
zabod wi gardkan-te, jaosar sut. Ba’d naskhtuid khu ratsust. 39. Ala- 
aspa pis-zabo i wi chud. Daryav i wi cliud. Yak bar pale gaskht et dhost 
tar bon i chud, lovd-e : “ Sahar, khu hal chiz, winid.” 
40. Ala-aspa wizivd ghamghin, deid tar kila. Yat, khu jai-te nust. 
Khu midhj khu-tar-daman lachud. Ghayat i vod, dive sada child, yem 
dative or locative in meaning notwithstanding the absence of the proper affix, as in the 
examples ab ta’am sat, gliiew saoam “ went (to) drink and food,” “ I go (to) the hunt.” 
Cf. the English “ give me the hook,” u write me word.” At any rate the form answer¬ 
ing to our infinitive (“ began to do &c.”) seems to he some case of the verbal substantive. 
47 Ta yam khhavd-ao was first given as a form with the same mi nin g, But on 
reflection my informant corrected himself and gave the form in the text. It shows 
how purely the so-called Infinitive (in ao) is in Shighni a verbal substantive. It governs 
the genitive of the pronoun (the subject) and takes the affix of the dative case. Liter¬ 
ally : “ till his sitting down.” 
