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R. C. Temple— Some Hindu Folksongs from the Punjab. [No. 3, 
These catches and songs refer to the following subjects, (1) religion, 
(2) religious customs, (3) love, (4) marriage customs, (5) home customs, 
(6) nursery rhymes, (7) localities, (8) riddles and faeetice , (9) politics. I 
have divided them for convenience into the above heads, merely signifying 
at the foot of each song where I got it from. 
Circumstances have obliged me to rest content with this small collec¬ 
tion for the present, but I hope some day to be able to send the Society 
the fruits of extended researches in this direction. 
To each song is attached a rendering and as full notes grammatical and 
linguistic as I am able to give ; but before giving the songs themselves, I 
will add a few words on the more prominent points in grammar that occur. 
A short vocabulary also of the more important words to be found in the 
songs will be added. With regard to the grammatical peculiarities, how¬ 
ever, I will not do much more than merely collect them and point them 
out. The numbers which will be found attached to the quotations refer 
to the numbers of the songs whence they are gathered, and will enable the 
reader to read the context at once. 
A few quotations in their appropriate places will also be found marked 
R. R., which I have added from a MS. lately placed at my disposal, 
through the kindness of Mr. Delmerick of the Panjab Commission. This 
MS. relates, in a series of disconnected tales, the legendary sayings and 
doings of Raja Rasalu (R. R.), son of Raja Salivahan of Sialkot and brother 
of Puran Bhagat, a personage of wide renown in Panjabi legends. The 
tales purport to have been taken down direct from the lips of Panjab 
peasants, unfortunately by an ignorant munshi. They consist of prose 
stories interspersed with bits of village Panjabi verse. These last luckily 
the munshi could not mar and they are of great linguistic value, but the 
prose he has so injured with attempts at Urdu, very much Persianised, 
with which language he was apparently not very familiar, that it is useless 
for any scientific purpose. My notes were taken from the verses as my 
reading of the MS. proceeded. 
Also a small tract on Panjabi grammar by a member of the Ludiana 
Mission, 1851, will be quoted occasionally as the Panj. Gram. 
Grammatical Notes. 
(a) The following pronominal forms occur : 
Asa n, we, I. 18, 60, etc , etc., this is ordinary Panjabi. 
Appu, thou, you. 20 : for ap. 
Mora, my. 36 : also found in Hindi. 
Tew, thou, passim : this is ordinary Panjabi. 
Take, thou, passim. According to the Panj. Gram, tarn is the inflec¬ 
ted form of the case of the agent and = tu lie; thus, 
