198 G-. A. Grierson —Notes on the Bangpur Dialect. [No. 8, 
A SONG OF GORAKH NATH. 
(1J Let me whisper a tale in your ear. I got a present of three 
villages. 
(2.) But two villages were all waste land, and in the third there was 
not a single man. 
(3.) In the village in which there was not a single man sat three 
blacksmiths. But two of them did not know their business, and the third 
did not make anything. 
(4.) The blacksmith who made nothing, made three spades. But 
two of them were broken and good for nothing, and the third had no ferule 
for the handle. 
(5.) With the spade which had no ferule, he dug three tanks. But 
two of them were filled with dust, and the third had no water in it. 
(6.) In the tank which had no water in it, he set three fish-nets. But 
two were in rags and tatters, and the third had no meshes. 
(7.) With the net which had no meshes, he caught three ru-is (a 
kind of fish). But two jumped away and escaped, and the third he 
could’nt find. 
(8.) The ru-i he couldn’t find, he took off to Kaliganj market, and 
sold it for three kalians* of Jcaoris. But two kahans he didn’t get and 
one they didn’t give him. 
(9.) With the kahan of Icaoris they didn’t give him he bought three 
earthen cooking pots. But two were broken and worthless, and the third 
had no bottom. 
(10.) With the pot which had no bottom, he cooked rice for three 
brahmans. But two didn’t eat any ; and the third didn’t get any. 
(11.) And the brahman who didn’t get any, gave him three slaps. 
But two didn’t touch him, and the third wasn’t a slap, &c. 
The next song is a curious and characteristic production of the tiger- 
haunted northern half of the district. It tells how the Tiger-god S'onardy 
Thakur destroyed an army of Mughuls. 
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* A ganda = 4. 20 gandas = 1 pan. 16 pans = one kahan = 1280. 
