3 
1883.] Hugh Fraser— Folklore from Fastern Goralchpnr. 
JtTfe mft K | 
^>3R^T m 4t II II V* II 
1 w, | I ^ 
*rhfl^TT jftf*; m ft € i 
fw:T sftiWr xjvkt i ^ctfewr 4i ii ii ^ ii 
Notes. —I write as it was given me, but think two if not three songs 
must have been mixed up, i. e., the first four lines, and the last eight lines 
seem to differ from the middle ones. [Mr. Fraser is correct. In Shaha- 
bad, where the above is also current, verses 3—9, inclusive, are a separate 
song.—G. A. G.] ( 
The frequent. «TT at the end of the verse, is put for rhyme and metre, 
and has no sense. [Cf. Vidyapati XXVI for a similar use of the word *TT 
in Maithili. The word gives emphasis to the verb of the sentence, and is 
said to represent the Sanskrit *r«T.—G. A. G.] 
Translation I. 
In what was the unseemliness in the black clouds ; ye gods ! in what 
was the unseemliness of a husband. In smoke was the unseemliness of 
the black clouds; in his marriage-relations that of a husband. 
Stooping low I swept out the yard. The Raja threw a clod* at me. 
The people of the village, Raja, are your brothers and nephews—ye gods ! 
bow do you jest with me thus. I went to pluck flowers in the Raja’s 
garden. The Raja threw a clod at me. “ Why did you throw a clod at 
me, Raja? Am not 1 too a daughter of the village ?” “ Even if you are 
a daughter of the village, what came you to do in the garden ? This is 
the time, fair one, for taking your sport. Afterwards you will become 
worn with child-bearing. Stooping low I went for water, lest, ye gods, 
any one might recognize that I was the mother of a child. 
Where, fair one, is produced the dark lamp-black, and where the 
fragments of red lead ? In the candle, fair one, is produced the dark 
lamp-black, in the bania’s house the fragments of red lead. Where, fair 
one, does the dark lamp-black look beautiful, and where the fragments 
(or powder) of red lead ? On the eyes, fair one, the dark lamp-black, 
on the forehead the red lead is beautiful. 
* Throwing a clod is the village manner of inviting to an intrigue. 
