8 Bilgrami— Quatrains of Baba Tahir . [No. 1. 
3. I have groaned so much that it (the heart) has killed me of 
groaning. 
4. Take it from me as I am weary of this heart. 
In the 3rd line the word is neither Kas , nor Kushi, but 
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o-lT Kusht , the past tense of to kill. Kushi cripples the metre too. 
18. 
1. I, who wander in the desert night and day 
2. And shed tears from my eyes night and day, 
3. No fever have I, nor does any part of me acbe, 
4. This only do I know that I am groaning night and day. 
In line 2 of Mr. Allen’s text the word should be There 
seems to be no necessity for adding the pleonastic j\j in the words 
fbjk- f*A and riA because in the Raji dialect the letter preceding the 
final f of the first person has always the vowel point zamma, and the 
words are pronounced cA biyabimum pjk* jayiim, etc. In the note on 
line 3, page 32, the word must be a misprint, aud should be, 
as jj&s* corresponds to the Persian and to 
19. 
1. The heart is a pest, a plague, a plague ; 
2. The eyes sin, but the heart is afflicted ; 
3. If the eyes see not a lovely face, 
4. What does the heart know, where the beauties are ? 
Instead of the final & it is far better to use ^=^0 or in all the 
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lines. is correct, and there is no need of using the word as 
the singular is generally used. The translator in the note on line 4, 
page 33, translates the line j<i> if as “ How wouldst 
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thou know my heart, etc.,” taking the word , L5 wii to mean “ wouldst thou 
know, ” but here means “ it would know ” ; i.e., 
means “ How or what would my heart know. ” 
20 . 
1. From the tyranny of both eyes and heart I cry, 
2. For, whatever the eyes see, the heart remembers. 
3. I will make a dagger whose point will be of steel, 
4. And shall strike it on my eyes, so that the heart may become 
free. 
It is not necessary to use the letter d always instead of a. I have 
never heard or seen iljf or ihji spelt withi instead of with i. The case is 
