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SONG OF KING SALJIES. 
3 
For the Kahika bridegroom 
„ Lakshmi Dai 
„ the Little Folk 
Ds. Slabs of mango 
conserve. 
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The next piece selected is the song of king Sallies. It is most popu¬ 
lar throughout the district amongst the low caste people, and is printed 
word for word as it was taken down from the mouth of a Dom. Salhes 
was the first Chaukidar, and is much worshipped by Dusadhs, a caste 
whose profession is to steal and to act as Chaulddars, preferably the 
former. Throughout Tirhut, Salhes asthdns can be seen under the village 
piped tree, composed of a raised mud platform surmounted by mounted 
figures made of clay, representing the various characters of the song. 
Here the Dusadhs worship him. 
Although a song, it is written in prose, and is chanted, rather than 
sung. Note that, throughout, Transitive Verbs in the past tense frequent¬ 
ly take inflections which properly belong only to Neuter Verbs. 
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