28 Hugh Fraser —Folklore from Eastern Gorakpur. [No. I,. 
*J«PC^T is a long form of The regular long form would be 
but, as the first syllable is farther back in the word than the 
penultimate, it is lightened by changing the class nasal «r to anundsik. 
We thus get But, as I have mentioned in my note on just 
as 'V can be written so can ^ be written «T, hence we get finally 
Fi«H3T. This word is an illustration of a general rule of spelling in Bihari, 
that when anundsik is followed by the third or fourth consonant of any 
class, the two together may be represented by the nasal of the class or 
nasal of the class aspirated respectively.. Thus, we have— 
(1) or ‘ a limb’, ^ifar or (rare) ‘ a tear’, or 
‘ testicle’, or ^t*r, ‘ sleep’, or ‘ a mm tree’. 
(2) ft' q or ‘ a lion’, or {rare) ‘ middle’, %fg - or 
‘ a pumpkin’, qrfa or ^fT^, ‘ Ivrishn’, or ‘ a pillar’. 
is feminine, and the proper form would be TTsrf^IT. is 
vj A \J \J 
the form in the version of the song current in Shahabad. 
'SfTJr.—I am unable to account for the final tf in this word. It is 
possibly incorrect. In the Shahabad version the word is may 
be the old Magadhi Prakrit nominative, if it is really correct. 
V. 9. «rtf% is here in its true meaning of a genitive singular. 
Y. 10. —The Shahabad version is 
‘ two lemons’. It is probably the correct one, as and not ^T, is the 
Bhojpuri for ‘ two’. 
The last line will not scan. I can make nothing of it. The Shaha¬ 
bad version is ^ ^ ^T*TT, which is only a repetition of the latter 
half of v. 7. 
No. VI. 
V. 2. ^t?: is the Hindi 'S'T^r. Another form of the same root is 
met with in v. 4 of the last song. 
J7# is locative. 
No. VII. 
This song is sung to the melody called STFreift, a name dei’ived from 
gjf <T, ‘ a handmill’, and ^TT, ‘ a house’, i. e., ‘ the song of the mill’. It is 
a very melancholy air. 
Y. 1. faf^T, long form of or (fem.), (see note above- 
on in V. 8.) ‘ a mm tree’, and not ‘ a lemon tree’ as has been 
translated. (see Y. 10) is the word for a lemon. wTpr; for 5rf*\ 
J v» Ov ' 
for sake of metre, srft; is fern, of oT’C ‘ cool’, a common Bihari word, 
Oy C\ ' > 
( cj . ‘ the cool night’, Vid. 50, 3.) The Hindi word is 
V. 2. loc. of 7TC, ‘ base’. 
the old form of the direct verbal noun (root) of the verb, 
used in the sense of the conjunctive participle. See note on ^fTf - in No. I. 
