234 
MA1TUIL CHRESTOMATHY, 
TOX, TOfVr, an image ; idol. 
*; r ST, (*V C ) a corpse: the dead. 
totTT, TORL a name of Krishn. 
v» \i * * 
a fool : Prov. W«3T 
\3 \J 
TO*J» a fool’s stick hits you 
on the head: i. e., only fools use 
weapons; cf. 
< 2 S. 
TO®??, v. n. to smile. 
TO3FR, TO^t, a smile. 
v» * 
TOm, a mouse ; see TO. 
Ov 
TO^^f, a wild man, a man of the 
forest: name of a low caste. 
TOT, see to. 
v» C\ 
c|F^, to tie a person’s elbows 
behind his hack, 
the face. 
TO, TO, the head. 
!>v* J J * -« * 
TO, v. a. to shut up, close : Past 
C\ 
Part. TO^T or TO^fT (Vid. XXX, 
<N i 
5), shut, closed. 
TOR, a closing. 
?lf«Fr — Tif^T, q. v. 
TO, a root: principal (of a loan). 
TO, a fool ; cf. TITO. 
^R#T*T, foolishness, clownishness. 
TO, TOT, TOT, a mouse: nursery 
c\ j 
nonsense-rliyme , TORT 
TORT 3TO, tffC wfx XTO y 
TOT; ifRnft TO ^TTf^, TO 
fx^ «T^«I TO*T ir^r *TTfx a coarse 
canvas bag, and a mouse’s ear; 
fill the bag with wind and bring 
it here : therefore ( or perhaps 
being filled therewith) the bag 
burst, and the wind spread in all 
directions : this rhyme is also sung 
ly grown-up people to bring a 
breeze, and forms part of a curi¬ 
[Extra No. 
ous alphabetical rhyme called the 
or “ Incantation of 
Wind,” which is of much popu¬ 
larity in Mithila. 
TO*:, a pestle for beating grain in 
an vTOT, or mortar. 
?2TOX, musk. 
* (i), Pro , Lst pers.; only used in 
poetry and sometimes by Muham¬ 
madans ; the following forms have 
been noted; nom. abl. 
(lengthened for metre Vid. 
LXXVIII, 5), to;t ; gen. to; ; the 
form is also found, but only 
as an oblique genitive , or (twice, 
Vid. LV, 6, and LXIII, 2) with 
the final voivel lengthened for the 
sake of metre ; from this oblique 
gen. should be distinguished the 
general abl. form used as a dative 
of possession, e. g. «rf% «J3fTT 
( Vid. LXXIX, 13). to me 
there is not money, I have no 
money ; has a rare fern. i?ifx ; 
TOft only occurs once in Vid. 
XXXI, 1, but it is there 
certainly masc., the fem. form 
being used for rhyme (cf. TOfx, 
LXIII, 3) : the quantity of the 
% in TOC is usually short; in 
Vid. it is twenty-five times short 
and only four times (XXXII, 
3, XXXV, 3, LXII, 3, LXV, 
1) lo7ig; TOCJ has always both 
syllables long except in the loose 
metre of LXXIX, 13, where both 
are short; the % in is always 
short in Vid. ; in the one place 
