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1904.] Bilgrami— Quatrains of Baba Tahir. 
different with which has been spelt invariably with both a 
and d. In the 3rd line either or f-ad-o may be used, but not 
which is derived from an entirely different verb to 
burn. 
21 . 
1. I have a heart that has no good in it, 
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2. However I counsel it, it profits not ; 
3. I cast it to the winds, but the wind does not carry it. 
4. I put it on the fire, it does not smoke (or burn). 
The word should be with j which is the dialectal form and not 
with & which is Persian. 
Here, too, as in the preceding Quatrain need not necessarily 
be used for a in the words or in ah. It appears like a 
forced expression and not natural, and savours of affectation. The word 
22 . 
1. I am that wastrel whose name is Kalandar, 
2. I have no home, no abode, and no vessel; 
3. When the day comes, I wander round the earth (world). 
4. When night falls, I lay my head on a brick. 
The word and j&J both mean a large vessel here and not an 
anchor, is an unburnt brick. 
23. 
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1. In the whole world there is no moth like me. 
2. In the Universe there is not a mad man like me. 
. 3. All the serpents and the ants have nests, 
4. But for poor me, there is not even a ruin. 
I have read it somewhere as “ in the Universe,” instead of 
in the 2nd line, and this I have substituted. 
24. 
1. In the field of my thought naught grows save grief, 
2. In my garden nothing grows but the flower of mourning. 
3. In the desert of my unproductive heart, 
4. Not even the herbage of despair grows. 
In the text in the 2nd line, the word^srJ injures the metre, and Mr. 
Allen has rightly noticed it. It should be y=? to give the “ correct 
scansion.” 
In the 3rd line means “ giving or yielding no produce,” the 
word lUIa in Agriculture means “ the produce. ” 
The dot of h had better be omitted in the word 
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