208 II. C. Temple —Some Hindu Folksongs from the Punjab. [No. 3, 
Bh’ro, bh’ro, be gadhva, thand’rew paniew ; 
Bir dharyaya ghar gaya, be. 
Kb ay aw, be bira, bare bare g’rahew, 
Sas’ri awasi karkasa, be. 
Awasiw, awasiw, mera kya kar’siw P 
Ik ghari pal pahunaw, be. 
Kangra. 
Forge me, oh tbou good blacksmith, 
A lamp with a tall stem, 0. 
I will burn the lamp all night, 
And I will mix flour on a large plate ; 
I entertain my brother in my house, O. 
Fill, fill, 0 cup, with cold water; 
My brother goes thirsty to the house, 0. 
Eat, O brother, large mouthfuls, 
Mother-in-law will come scolding, O. 
She will come, she will come: what will she do to me ? 
I am only entertained an hour, O. 
Notes. 
The nasalized inflect, so often above noted is very strongly marked 
here. Gharyan and khdydw are imperatives; again in uchidw dandian we 
have the fern, form of it, and in tliand’ren panien the masc. form. See song 
No. 47. 
uclia = uncha, tall. Cf. songs Nos. 31, 45, 50, 47 ,'43. 
dandi, the beam of a pair of scales: the stem of the tall kind of 
Indian brass lamp. 
diurd = diurd = dia, a lamp. 
bdl’sdn, ghol’sdn ; fut. forms masc.: dwasi n, awasi , kar'siw ; fut. forms 
masc. Cf. song Nos. 15, 21, 23. 
sammak-rati , Panj., all night. sammak ) all, the whole, is only found 
in this phrase : (?) connected with sab , salh, all. # 
afra = at a : tliand're n = thande: jprdhunan = jpahundn. All in¬ 
stances of the insertion of r and r. See song No. 42. 
'prahunaW) pahunan, to entertain : palm, a guest. 
bh’ro, bh’ro = bharo, bharo ; fill, fill. 
gad’wd, Panj., a small brass drinking vessel (lota). 
dharyaya, hill dial., thirsty. Cf. Panj. tis, tih and treh, thirst : 
iibai, thirst and tihaia, thirsty. (?) dharyaya = trehaid , thirsty, 
cfrdhe n, mouthfuls: garah or garas, a handful of food as eaten by the 
hand, a mouthful. 
[* It is a semitatsama word, for Sanskrit samyak . Ed.] 
