186 R. C. Temple— Some Hindu Folksongs from the Punjab. [No. 3, 
I must make a pilgrimage to Gugga, my beauty ! 
I must make a pilgrimage to Gugga. 
Sitting by the roadside I will talk, and while I talk, 
All the sorrow of my heart will disappear, my beauty ! 
I must make a pilgrimage to Gugga. 
Notes. 
The jdtra or pilgrimage to Gugga is performed only in honour of some 
vow being fulfilled and not otherwise. The successful suppliant collects as 
many people as he can afford and takes them on a pilgrimage to one of the 
numerous shrines to Gugga in the Kangra valley, where he entertains them 
at his own cost for some days. As may be readily imagined the more 
frolicsome of the women, when tired of the monotony of home life, 
invent a fulfilled vow for the sake of the outing. Guru Gugga or Goga 
seems to have been a Rajput hero who died in his attempts to stem the 
last invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni in 1026 A. D. He is now a sort of 
saint with miraculous powers over snakes and able to give sons to the 
barren, and is much believed in by the lower orders of the Panjabis. (See 
my not.es to ‘ Folklore in the Panjab’—No. XII, Indian Antiquary , 1882.) 
Asa n, Panj. we, used like the Hindi ham , for I. 
jo — ko, to, also the sign of the objective case. 
bo and abo, hill dialect = Panj. vo, an exclamation ; oh ! you! my 
dear, my friend. 
battd = Hind, bat and bat, a road, path, hill dialect. 
bieh — Panj. vich, in, ef. Hind, bich, between. 
galldn kar'nd, lit., to make words, to talk, gall, Panj. a word = 
Hind, bat, in all its numerous idiomatic senses. 
bald, sitting. Of. Hind, baith’na, bithana, bais’na, baisana, baisaeb, 
to sit, set. See song No. 5. To sit by the roadside and talk to passers by 
is about the most outrageous thing a native woman can do. See song 
No. 11. 
19. 
Aj to badhai bajl Jas’rat Rae ke ! 
Aj to badhai baji Jas’rat Rae ke ! 
Big’si Kusalya Mai Ram Chandar jae ke. 
Big’si seh dai-mai lalan nahaeke. 
Aj to badhai baji Jas’rat Rae ke ! 
Aj to badhai baji Jas’rat Rae ke ! 
Big’sia seh nai-bhai diibh lagaeke. 
Big’si seh naan nagar bulaeke. 
