26 Hugh Fraser —Folklore from Eastern GoraTcpur. [No. 1, 
Y. 10 . conj. participle of the f ‘extend’, more 
usually written 
f^^^Tand 3 ^ 3 f*T, are 3 plur. past, while is 3 sing. past. 
The v/ 3*3 or ‘ say’, is a rare one. The more usual one is 3T^T, common 
in Maithili. In Maithili means ‘ to speak’, exactly like the Hindi 
and its causal 3 * 93*3 means ‘ to call’, exactly like the Hindi W«rT*rT. 
No. IV. 
In copying this song into the Devanagari character, I was met by 
its extreme corruptness. Several of the verses have more words than 
will scan, for instance ^JT3T is superfluous in v. 3. Again words are 
evidently missing in others, for instance two instants are missing in v. 2 . 
This song is known in Arrah, and by the help of competent pandits I have 
been able to make it fairly correct. In order, however, to show what 
changes have been made, I have enclosed in marks of parenthesis those 
words or portions of words which, like *5JT3T in v. 3, and ^ in v. 11, are 
superfluous in the original. Words added to fill up the metre of the 
original, like t in v. 2, and ^JT3T in v. 8 , are marked with an asterisk. In 
verse 14 a whole phrase has had to be added, which I have enclosed in 
square brackets. In this verse the portion in square brackets was not in 
the original. 
In vv. 8 , 10, 12, 14, I have altered to according to 
all authorities is certainly incorrect as an oblique form of ‘ my’. 
It has probably been written through confusion with the Hindi iit. 
is a form of Western Bhojpuri, but, so far as I can ascertain, it is not 
used in Gorakhpur, nor anywhere where pure Bhojpuri is spoken. 
Y. 1. is here an optional direct form of ‘ my’. Just as 
the genitive of 3 *Wt, ‘ a horse’, is Eppf 3T, or sPr^T with oblique 36, 
so tbe genitive of ^ ‘ I’, is or with oblique TitH. 
V. 2 . long form of vrfg' has two meanings, so far 
as I am aware, 1, the country of Magadh (Gaya), and 2, Uncouth. The 
two meanings are closely connected according to popular opinion, but 
which meaning is the original, and which the derivative I do not know. 
V. 3. is feminine. Hence its long form is 
V. 4. 3 is contracted from 3 * 1 %, the general oblique form of ^ this. 
V. 7. 35T is probably incorrect for 3rd, ‘ I do’. is 1 . sing, 
pret. conditional. 
V. 9. is general oblique form of ff. It is really a genitive. 
Of. song V. 9. 
^ 3 ® is 2 plur. fut. The first person is *93*3, the 2nd plur. 3n;3^ or, 
contracted, 3r3«. 
V. 11 . is the regular 3 pres. ind. of ^ (= Hindi ^), ‘ fly’. 
