182. J 11 C. Temple— Some Hindu, Folksongs from the Punjab. 177 
6 . 
Mam ta n hogai swami ka charan’har : 
Turn pap karo mere sag’re par. 
Kdngrd. 
I have become indeed obedient to my lord : 
Save me from all my sin. 
Notes. 
'Ihe story goes that a woman went to a temple to pray, but the god 
said she must first learn to obey her husband: whereon she went home and 
presently came back to say she was now very obedient and wished to be 
forgiven ; whence the above song. 
swcnni ka. This makes chararChar masc. which as the singer is a 
woman, must be explained by her being compared to charan'har garland 
of the feet. 
charan'har : obedient. The deriv. given me is charan , the foot -fi har , 
a garland of the feet, sag'ra = sard , the whole. 
par kapna : the trans. form of par hond , to be forgiven ; lit., to be 
across (into the next world). 
7 . 
Re, kacbche dam ka nahm hai bharosa. 
Re, kachche dam ka nahm hai bharosa. 
Ay a na ay a : ay a na ay a. 
Re, kachche dam ka ! ( lari ) 
Kdngrd. 
Alas, there is no confidence in this life. 
Alas, there is no confidence in this life. 
It comes and it comes not; it comes and it comes not. 
Alas, this life ! (da capo ) 
Notes. 
Kaclichd dam is a very curious expression : lit., it is deficient breath 
or life. It is used in the hills for this life, this world. 
lari: again, da capo. The word as used in the hills I cannot find in 
the Diets. ; it has two senses, one as an enclitic, indeed, surely, verily and 
one in music, ‘sing again from the beginning,’ in which it is found 
at the end of verses or songs as here. It differs from our ‘ da capo’ which 
is merely a musical direction, whereas ‘ bari’ appears to be actually sung: 
thus they will sing through the song and then sing ‘ bari’ and commence 
again. The deriv. is obvious, cf. bari, a turn : bari-bari, turn by turn, 
alternately. $ee song Nos. 24, 59. 
