194 R. C. Temple —Some Hindu Folksongs from the Panjab. [No. 3, 
Asking mother-in-law, asking father-in-law, I will go 
To the market-gardener’s garden ; 0 to the market-garden¬ 
er’s garden.” 
“ The fennel is sown, my beauty, the leaves are small, 
The fruit is like pearls ; how can I cut it ?’' 
“ The thin cakes are cooked and placed on the plate, the fennel 
on the top : 
O eat them, O my brave one 1” 
“ Bathe, my dear, and wash, spread the bed, and come, thou 
young and graceful one ! 
Shampoo my thighs : when I go to sleep, then go you for water.” 
Notes. 
This is a difficult song to follow, owing to the confused way in which 
it is put together. The woman first addresses the cuckoo about her hus¬ 
band’s return : the market-gardener then addresses her, then she her 
husband, and lastly her husband answers her. 
Sabad, sab'd, Panj., a word, speech. 
bagdn, bag , bage , common corruptions of high, a garden. 
dig e, dig a, dig cm, Panj. inflected forms of da, di, de = ka, Id, ke ; of. 
bardn , sogan , ammdn etc., all specimens of the nasalized inflection 
above noted. See song No. 5, etc. 
bardn barhigdn, this term of twelve years is a sort of conventional 
expression to mean ‘ a long while.’ It had its origin in the twelve years 
apprenticeship supposed to be undergone by saints and jogis. barht, Panj. 
a year. See song Nos. 20 and 32. 
hand — Jcanth , a husband. 
sogan da sag = soa, fennel, anethum sowa, a much-valued relish. 
kudlii ? hill dialect: whence? See song No. 27. 
ammdn jo, sassu jo, soldre jo, janghan jo, in all these cases jo = 
ko, to. See song No. 5. 
rdigan = rain = arain, Panj. a caste of Muhammadans who are 
market-gardeners. 
chhutigan larjdn, lit., small fringes (chhutiya = chhota), used for 
small leaves of a young plant. 
motigdn dejhunje ; jhunjd or jhunja, dialectic = fruit. ‘ Fruit like 
pearls’, means that the fruit or flower is still white and beaded, looking like 
beads on the plant, i. e., the plant is still very young. 
kihdn? Panj. how? 
luchigdn = Hind, luchai, a soft thin cake fried in butter. 
