1882.] 
R C. Temple —Some Hindu Folksongs from the Punjab. 222 
I am throwing twirlv-whirlies into the rolling Ravi: 
The water-carrying girls of Bhaun have ruined the country. 
A gaily-turbaned man brought the bouncing ball : 
The bouncing ball ! 
I am throwing the brooms into the rolling Ravi : 
The potter-women of Bhaun have ruined the country. 
A gaily-turbaned man brought the bouncing ball : 
The bouncing ball ! 
O, you walk the roads with hawwd- stick in hand : 
Turn and look back ! 0 your wife is standing (there) ! 
A gaily-turbaned man brought the bouncing ball : 
The bouncing ball ! 
Notes. 
This song is very popular among young married women, and exhibits 
the peculiar habit many of them have of playing with children’s bouncing 
balls ( Jchinnun , see song No. 51). They try and see how often they 
can bounce them up and down without a fault. 
Bhaun is the city part of the town of Kangra, and Rai stands for 
Ravi, which, however, does not flow past Kangra, but on the other side 
of the Dhaula Dhar or Outer Himalayan Range. 
The first things a native wants in a new place are water and a 
gliard. These at Kangra are supplied by the jlitris and the humharis 
who hawk them about to strangers. They are of notoriously loose char¬ 
acter, hence the allusion in the song. 
Asdn, bo,je sunya : of. song No. 32 : when I heard. Je — jo, when • 
usually it means if, in Panj. 
majuri, vulgar for majduri = mazduri, a labourer’s pay. I have heard 
majur’ni used for a female cooly in the Panj. Courts. 
langhdya ; Panj. langhauna. , causal of langldnd, to pass over : to get 
brought over : to fetch over. 
ram-jJiam , hill dial., the bouncing u/p and down of a ball. Cf. Hind 
rim-j him, the patter of rain. 
chirebdlia for chirewalia = chirewala, lit., he of the checkered turban 
(chird, see song No. 35) : a man with a turban of many colours: wdlid 
for wala is a common Panj. form seen in many family names, e. g., Ahlu- 
walia. Chirewala has also an idiomatic sense of medical practitioner. 
pdni hdn, I have thrown ; pdnd, to throw ; cf. songs Nos. 23, 25, 45, etc. 
bhamiri (cf Hind, bhambiri, a butterfly), the common Indian toy 
consisting of a small stick with paper fixed round the top so as to whirl 
quickly in the wind : a twirly-whirly. 
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