1884.] G. A. Grierson —Translation to Manbodh^s Haribans. 
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the people of the village are losing all their wealth^. Do ye all meet 
and consult together in a pancJi, for attacks are^ being continually made 
upon us. (5) It is now no longer proper that we should dwell here. Arise^ 
and settle near Yrindavana. There one sees the mountain Govardhana,^ 
even gazing on it is right for cowherds^ (much more living near it). 
Next day all arose together® like Gypsies'^ they departed in a moment. 
This (new) city became more beautiful than that one, and it rose 
(glorious) as Ayodhya.^ 
So Hari became seven years of age and never ceased sporting.^ 
(10) Sometimes^® he danceth, and sometimes singeth songs. An age 
used to pass in even making him eat.^i 
One day Nanda called the two brothers Hari and Haladhara to him¬ 
self, and said “ Brahmans study books, and Kshattriyas archery, but 
cowherds^^ learn cattle-tending from their boyhood.”^® They whom Indra 
^ in is added for tke sake of rhyme. 
^ Note the forms in text is a misprint for 
which 
are common contractions for and These forms have not been 
noted in the grammar: other instances will be found in Bid. 
LXXVI, 8; but Bid. only uses these in the feminine. This, however, is not the case 
in Manbodh, or in the modern language, e. g. above is masculine. In com¬ 
mon writing at the present day, these forms are continually written without the final ^ 
thus, which is due to the extremely feeble way in which a final is 
pronounced. See Gram. § 7. 
^ (not in Bate), = ‘be rooted up,’ hence, ‘to arise;’ compare Parable 
of the Prodigal Son in Grammar, ^ ^qcfT ‘ I will arise 
and go to my father.’ It is derived from the Skr. ^ ‘to be rooted 
up.’ In Skr., this verb is only used in the causal form (■^rqT 55 jf<^) ‘ he roots up.’ 
a/ however, forms 
Which means ‘ cattle-increasing.’ 
^ here means ^f^cT, ‘ proper.’ is oblique of ‘ a Goala;’ 
in cTiqrf^, is emphatic. 
® means ‘ together.’ 
7 is a kind of wandering tribe of hunters. See the word in the Vo¬ 
cabulary to my Mth. Chrestomathy. 
s The city of Harichandra was Ayodhya. 
^ Lit. ‘ was there any time at which he had no time for sport ? ’ 
10 The obi. form of is rare. 
Lit., ‘ (If) he will eat, a whole Jcal^a (lit. the destruction at the end of a 
Tcalpa) passes away.’ The meaning is that he could not be enticed away from play 
oven to his meals. 
12 In the text = Skr. 
13 obl. of ^ iioj’ The usual form of the word is ^*fT. In Mth. 
