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M. A. Grierson— Farther notes on Kalidasa. 
[March, 
remark that of the twelve lakhs only one was given to the poets, but the 
eleven others to the 11 Rudras, who are the visible forms of the god Sankara 
or Siva. On another occasion when some pandits who were skilled in the 
Vedas, but no adepts in verse-making, were at their wit’s end to complete 
a couplet, with which they wished to ingratiate themselves with the king, 
Kalidasa supplied the rest. The third anecdote illustrates the great as¬ 
cendancy which the poet Kalidasa had gained over the king’s mind; so 
that the king did not dare to remove him from his court, although he was 
greatly dissatisfied with his dissolute mode of life, wherein he was supported 
by his queen, and although his courtiers contrived by an intrigue to get 
Kalidasa turned away, the king remained inconsolable, until he had suc¬ 
ceeded in re-discovering and bringing hack Kalidasa, who henceforth stood 
higher than before in the king’s favour. 
7- On the Norwegian Taters, their language and its relation to Hindi. 
—By Dr. Sundberg. 
(Abstract.) 
The Taters are the gipsies of Norway. An account of them has been 
published by Mr. Eilert Sundt in his work “ Beretniug om Fante-eller 
Landstrygerfolket i Norge.” “ The notices of them in the present paper 
are principally taken from it. The name “ Tater” has been identified with 
latar «TT<TIK. Dr Sundberg suggests a new derivation, from tlia- 
thidr (a brazier ; Hindi thather) ; because one of their occupations is work¬ 
ing in brass and other metals. Though outwardly professing the religion 
of Norway, they really have their own religion ; they worship the moon, 
and call their god Bundra, which Dr. Sundberg identifies with Bevendra 
oi the god Indra. It used to be a practice among them to tie a stone 
round their neck and drown themselves when they thought they had lived 
long enough. They state their original home to have been the city of 
Assas in Assaria which has been identified with Assam; and its aboriginal 
tribe of the Boms is said to have given to their language its name Romani. 
Dr. Sundberg adverts to a story of the Persian poet Firdusi, that the king 
Behramgur of Persia requested king Kanodsche (Kanouj) of India to send 
him some musicians; and that the latter sent 12,000 musicians and 
dancing girls. These are said to have spread all over Europe and are the 
gipsies, later etc.; and Dr. Sundberg points out that in the Punjab the 
musicians, who accompany nautch-girls, are called Bom. There is a small 
vocabulary of about 800 words added to Mr. Sundt’s book, from which Dr. 
Sundberg gives a few examples of words of apparently Hindi origin ; e. g., 
jana to know, jido living, Jca to eat, halo black, Ion salt, meros mine, pani 
water, piws/i five, per belly, pi drink, baro great, bersh rain, besha to sit, 
brasha to ram, de to give, deros thy, diltlca to see, dives day, dui two, 
ratti night, etc. There are also a few Russian and Finnish words which 
