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2. Witli clasped hands I adore thy pure waves. Holy Ganga, may 
I see thee once again. 
3. One fault of mine thou knowest, and wilt pardon. I have 
touched, 0 mother, with my feet, thy water. 
4. Why need I perform silent prayer, or penance, devotion, or pious 
meditation. I look upon them as equally ineffectual, for my life hath been 
blessed by thee. 
5. Bidyapati saith, my prayer to thee is this, forget me not in the 
hour of death. 
(79.) 
A comical song, in which a wife complains about the tender age of her 
husband. 
I. My husband is a child, and I am a full blown damsel. (In a 
former life) what penance did I insufficiently perform, that I am as his 
mother. 
3. My friend, I dressed myself in garments of the south ; but when 
I saw my husband my body became burnt up with disappointment. 
5. I took my husband in my lap and went to market, and the market 
people asked “ What is he to you ?” 
7. “ He is not my husband’s younger brother, nor is he my little 
brother. In my former life it was written that he should be my husband. 
9. “ 0 wayfarer on the road, you are my brother. Go on a message 
to my father’s house. 
II. “ Tell my father to purchase a milch cow, that he may give his 
son-in-law milk to drink, and nourish him. 
13. “ I have no money, and no milch cow. How am I to bring up 
his little son-in-law ? 
15. Bidyapati says, hear 0 woman of Braj. Have patience and 
Murari will meet thee. 
(80.) 
A song of Intrigue. 
1. “ 0 fair one, you are wise and clever ; I am dying of thirst, give 
me a drink of water.’’ 
2. “ Who are you, and of what family ? Without previous acquain¬ 
tance, I give no man a seat, or water.” 
3. “ I am a traveller, and a Rajput; and, separated from my love, 
I wander over the world.” 
4. “ Come, and be seated, and drink water. Whatever you ask for 
I will give you. 
5. “ My father-in-law and brother-in-law are gone to a far country, 
and my husband has gone to search for them. 
