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at the breast which is thrown into the river while the above song is frequent¬ 
ly sung. The object of the custom is to procure ease of mind during the 
coming year ; for, as the doll is cooled by going into the water so is the 
mind cooled (eased) by the act. 
The custom of the Sawan swinging, which is done for luck and is 
alluded to in the song is of course well known. One of the signs of Sawan 
or the very wet weather, are the kunjaris, which I believe are our £ water- 
wagtails.’ 
Kunjdriyo : kunjari or kunjari, a bird said to appear only in Sawan, the 
rainy season. The word appears to be local in Kangra: cf. Hind, khan - 
jan, a wagtail, and the wagtails do appear with the rains in the hills. Kunj 
is the coolen goose, but that can hardly be meant 
Ni, ant: Panj. vocative exclamations used towards women, = Hind, 
ri, ari. 
Han, yes, here apparently merely enclitic. 
Pinghdn jhutan, to swing. Hind, pmg or piragh, is the act of swing¬ 
ing high ; Panj. a swing suspended. Jhutan, to swing ; cf Hind, jhul’na, 
to swing: jhot, a swing, and Panj. jhula, the sweep of a swing. The 
festival here alluded to is called the jhuVnd-jdtra in the North-West 
Provinces and Fallon, s. v., jhul’na, has a very pretty song about it, (q. v.), 
besides others under the same article. Under art , ping, he quotes some 
more something to the same purport as that here given. 
bari; da capo, over again. See note to song No. 7. 
15. 
Mahadeb russi baitha, 
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Mangada gadokh’ru : 
Tahiti rosa mitti jah’^g, 
Jahlu dih’wg chhok’ru. 
Tu n ta n Sadasibe jo 
Munai lah, soh’niew ni. 
Chambd. 
Mahadev is angry, 
And demands a kid. 
When his anger has vanished, 
Then he will give you a boy ; 
So do you to the Eternal S'iva 
Bring conciliations, 0 beauty. 
russi, rosa, anger : 
Sansk. v/' rus, \/ rush, 
Notes. 
cf. Panj. rossa, ros anger : Plind. ros, rasa 
\/ ris, \/ rish, V 7 rukh : Hind, and Panj. rus’ 
