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1883.] Hugh Fraser— Folklore from Fasten Gorakpur. 
V. 3. fJiTT?;, also the direct form of the verb. noun. This termina¬ 
tion still survives in Bhojpuri in the case of causal and other verbs 
whose roots end in ^it, or ^F?. 
V. 4. direct verb, noun of .f (Hindi ^TT«TT, ‘ to produce 
a continued loud sound’). In Maithili the form is as in Manbodh’s 
Haribans, 2, 52, aT<?i *3^ ‘ she fell crashing like a 
cut tree’. 
Y. 5. 1 sing. past, of ^ Wf?, 4 mortice’. means 
‘ a mortice’, and ‘ to join by morticing’. 
Y. 6. Qf<T^3, 3 plur. past, of ‘ sleep’. The root vowel is 
shortened as its falls in the antepenult., and is followed by a consonant. 
The long vowel appears in the 2 plur imperat. ^?fo in the next verse. 
iTTfs is translated as £ clothes’. I have not met the word in that 
meaning. The version of the song current in Shahabad gives Tft3, ‘ back’: 
which hardly gives a better meaning, tufe means literally, ‘ any flat 
surface’,—one of the resultant meanings is ‘ the side-boards of a bed’: 
another meaning of xnf? is ‘ a bandage’, or c fillet’, 
V. 9. The Shahabad version gives ^33^#) in place of the second 
V. 10. 3 sing. past. fern, of ‘ seize’, ‘ place’. The masc. 
would be 
V. 11. WA? 2 plur. imperat. fem. of WFf, ‘ release’, = the Hindi 
sfrf. ^Ff is the usual Bihari form of the root, being comparatively 
rare. 
V. 14. The Shahabad version has T instead of 
j j 
No. VIII. 
The metre in the first two verses is very doubtful. I have conjectur- 
ally enclosed in marks of parenthesis, words which should be omitted to 
make the verses scan. 
V. 1. or as it is more usually written ^TjF^T, has the same 
meaning as jitTFf^T. See note on this latter word above (Song II, 2). 
• 3 %, fem. of 3^, ‘ great’. has an oblique form with which 
it is often ignorantly confounded. 
V. 2. a!f% 3 sing. fem. past. 
V. 3. fifnjK is the invitation sent by the husband’s family to the 
bride’s family, to send the bride to her husband. 
(long form of oVtf^FC) is in the vocative case, and means 
* O companion’; the man who brings the invitation being the person sup¬ 
posed to speak. 
V. 4. 5JI^TT, 3 sing. pres. ind. of y/ 3iT, ‘ go’. 
