1882.] R. C. Temple —Some Hindu Folksongs from the Punjab. 211 
Taking flour lie sat down to knead, and lie made it watery. 
I bought juicy limes. 
Getting on to the roof he shouted out, ‘ come, my house-wife.’ 
I bought juicy limes. 
Taking the ladle he ran to the fire : the people cried shame ; 
I bought juicy limes. 
Notes. 
dhuron Ldhoron, Panj. inflect, from afar ,from Lalior. 
di-bibey a , ai conj. part.; see songs Nos. 32, 23. 
ras'lid — rasila, juicy. 
mule n liyd , common hill phrase, bought, mule n, inflected nasally 
from Panj. mull or mul , price (= Hind. mol). 
ande , Panj. form of ate = lit. came. Here used idiomatically for ‘to 
get.’ See song No. 56. 
biatdn jo = hatow ko, to the shops. 
gfraVri, in the hill dialect, a paring knife or instrument, pardti and 
<pardt is a large dish usually, and Panj. pardt'rd is a wooden kneading 
trough. See song No. 44. This word p'rdt'ri is a curious one. 
cbiir'nd , to peal = Hind. chhiVna. 
chhamk?na, Panj. = Hind, cbihaunbc'na , to fry spices in butter. Hind. 
baglidr'na , = Panj. t-ur'behind , means to pour hot butter on to spices. All 
these words have the sense of to season. The seasoning here referred to, 
called in Panj. neurd , is thus made. Chillis or spices are mixed with oil 
or ghi and fried till the mixture burns, slices of lime are then thrown in. 
While cooking the smell is so pungent as to make all near it cough and 
sneeze, and so penetrating as to make the neighbours unpleasantly aware of 
what is going on. 
musah = mushk, smell, odour. 
beaddh bitbie bdbdr , cast her beyond the threshold ; Panj. beaddbdnd , 
Panj. to cast, throw, build, Panj. threshold, bdh'r = bahir, outside, 
beyond. 
nun, Panj. (= Ico') to. 
pan'sar, watery, thin. (?) Pdni , water, (in Panj. in composition,^^) 
-f sar, all. 
kothd (Jcothen, masc. nasal, inflect, see above, passim) the upper story 
(bald Jchana) of a house, the roof. 
haltfcim mar’nd, hill dial., to shout out, call out. 
bear'clihi = kar’chhi, a brass ladle, 
aggi jo = ag ko, to the fire, jo, see song No. 5. 
lobedn = logo^ (log), people, (they). 
phat'bcdr, blame ; usually a curse, malediction, phafbear dend , to cry 
fie or shame on, to blame. 
