27 
1883.] Hugh Fraser —Folklore from Eastern QoraJcjour. 
will not scan. would be the 3 sing. pres. conj. used in the 
sense of the indicative, as frequently happens. 
V. 13. is the oblique verbal noun governed by ^UT%*r: see note 
on above 
V. 14. «|i¥I^rfrrqT is long form of fJ^^TrlT. 
y. is. is the regular 3 sing fem. pres. ind. of KT, ‘ weep’. 
No. V. 
The metre of this song is one instant short throughout the 2nd line, 
the measure of which should be 4 + 4 + 4. In Shahabad this is corrected 
by lengthening the final syllable of each line. 
V. 1. —The word is ^ in the original, but is the version 
current in Shahabad, and is required by the metre. It is 2 plur. imperat. 
of t, ‘ give’. 
V. 2. loc. sg. of ‘ a head’. 
is the 3rd plur. pret. of f ^rUT^, * to join’. The past parti¬ 
ciple is or It must be noted that usually in Bhojpuri 
the past part, ends in ^l^r, the term, being rare, and confined princi¬ 
pally to the Western districts of the dialect. In Maithili and Magadhi, 
the termination is never used ; hence the past participle in these 
dialects would be always (^TJITWt^r). So also in these dialects the 
past participle of */ ‘ see’, is and never It is not till we 
get to the extreme east where Bangali is spoken that we find the termina¬ 
tion again. So sharply is this distinction preserved, that a Tirhut 
man, who speaks Maithili, would at once pronounce any person who said 
(instead of meaning ‘ I saw’, to be a Bangali from this 
fact alone. We may summarise the above as follows : 
Bhojpuri 
Maithili 
Magadhi 
has I generally W 
\ sometimes ^T. 
£ have always 
Bangali has always ^r. 
is long form of (Hindi ^T^r), ‘ hair’. 
V. 4. is the regular Bhojpuri 1 pres. ind. 
is the adj. with the pleonastic suffix XT- 
WX is loc. sing, of ^ITJPC, ‘ a tank’. The first syllable is shortened 
as it now falls in the antepenult. : so also in the long form 
BTT, see note to song VI, 2. 
V. 5. is the regular Bh. 3 pres. ind. 
V. 7. is contracted for the oblique form of ‘ thou’. 
V. 8. is evidently superfluous, and spoils the metre. 
