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Notes. 
kajo ? hill dialect, why ? 
chatora, a libertine, properly an epicure, one who lives on the best 
of things. 
kusi = kissl. See song Nos. 23, 27, 31. 
MARRIAGE CUSTOMS. 
35. 
Be mundiya, ta in nu n 
Chira rangawaw gule nar da t 
Ten kagli di ajab bahar, we ! 
Be larke, be larke, 
Kanjar-Mane dajana chhor de ! 
Kdngrd. 
Ah my boy, for thee 
I will dye a turban like a pomegranate flower: 
Ah ! the wondrous beauty of thy aigrette ! 
Ah my boy, ah my boy, 
Leave off going to the prostitute’s quarter ! 
Notes. 
This song is sung by the young women attending the barat or mar¬ 
riage procession, and is addressed by way of chaff to any man, young or 
old, they may happen to meet. It is said that the use of such children’s 
terms as be, mundiya, and larka to grown men is a severe hit. 
be, Panj. women’s expression used to young children—Ah! Oh you, O. 
chird, a fine turban of many colours. 
gule nar, gulnar, pomegranate colour, is a favourite dye—see Leit- 
ner, Linguistic Fragments, Panj. Secretariat Press, 1882. 
kagli, hill dialect, the brush-like ornament used in turbans, an 
aigrette. It is a corruption of the Turki word kalghi . Kagli is used to 
mean also a reward of honour from the old practise of giving aigrettes as 
a military reward : in this sense too it is used ironically, thus; tijju bard 
kagli lagi gayi! (hill dial.) a fine reward you have got ; a fine thing you 
have made of it. 
kanjar, kanjar, a mat-weaver ; in the Panj., however, the prostitute 
class (kanchan). Kanjri, Panj. a prostitute ; this sense is said to have 
arisen from the very loose character of the Kanjar women. 
