1884.] 
J. iST. Rae —Baisivdrt Folk Songs. 
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My sister-in-law with pouting lips 
And a proud face moved away and sat on the doorway, (saying :) 
“ Lo ! sister-in-law is here to rob me.” 
0 sister-in-law, dress me, etc. 
2, I shall take a plate as a present for the Ghliatli,^ 
A cup for holding lamp-black for the eyes (of thy babe), 
I shall take a waiting-maid to laugh and play with thy child, 
I shall take a horse for thy husband to ride upon, 
0 sister-in-law, dress me, etc.f 
II ^ II ntfl I 
?;T^t 5I?IHcT 5ft %T 7151 ^Tfli^ft 
Note. ffT^T, ‘ a little child’, is generally used affectionately to 
mean ‘ a dear little child’. Gr. A. G. 
Translation. 
Birth-music is being sounded in the house of Nand. 
At Mathura Krish’n is born 
And birth-music is sounded at Gokul. 
To Queen Jasmat (Jasoda) a son is born. 
All the attendant ladies sing songs of jubilee. 
Birth-music is being sounded, etc. 
The legend of the birth of Shi Krish’n is so well-known that it re¬ 
quires no notes to describe how he was born at Mathura and thence 
* A ceremony held in honour of the goddess Chhath a month after the birth of a 
child. It is on this day that the mother leaves the room where she was confined for 
the period ; she is thenceforth considered as j}ure and capable of performing all the 
household duties and mixing freely with the inmates of the house. [The ceremony 
was originally performed on the sixth day after birth, hence its name. G. A. G.] 
t [Bhdiij sister-in-law, i. e., brother’s wife ; but nanad sister-in-law, i. e., husband’s 
sister. The idea of the piece is this : nanad goes to visit hhdiij on the sixth day after 
the birth of the latter’s son. Bhduj is sulky and says, “ nanad has come to rob 
me of my child”. Nanad remonstrates and says, she is come to make presents. 
There is a reference to the proverbial jealousy between sisters-in-law. Each is much 
displeased when the other has a child, but at the same time she is l)ound to give 
the mother handsome presents, in order that when her turn comes, she may get still 
liandsomer ones. — Ed.] 
