18G John Beames— Grammar of Chand Barddi. [No. 2, 
^TJFTT^T II 
iqpr TW ^ fVll II 
ii 
VW ^TTW f%S}T II 
Concerning the translation of this passage there may he some donbt; 
literally it is easy enough, as the meaning of each individual word is well 
known, hut how to put them together so as to make consecutive sentences is 
a difficulty; “ Anangpal—daughter—beautiful (or, taking su as an exple¬ 
tive, 4 delight’) 
Son—wish—fruit—gave. 
Cocoanut—fruit—good fruit. 
Spell (mantra) —beginning—made. 
It probably means that Anangpal had a daughter whose desire for a 
son bore fruit (to wit by the birth of Prithiraj), the fruit of the cocoanut is 
the emblem of marriage, and he or she, commenced some spells, why or 
wherefore non liq_uet. It is a fair specimen of Chand’s enigmatical style. 
Good speed the Cliandel made, 
(Saying) “ Parimal hath written this” gave it into his hand* 
XXI. 124. 4. 
Of the forms and the following instances have been noted : 
Dhundha the king gave a blessing. I. 305. 1. 
WpSTOoT <TTf% ^7 II 
Prithiraj gave him two provinces. I. 307. 61. 
Here the final syllable is cut off to rhyme with in the next line. 
^ II *TT*T ^«T H 
j j 
JTT^rT WK || ?TTO spT *rf*r II 
(For) joy (of his) daughter’s (having a) son, gifts and honours 
many he gave, 
House to house singing songs of joy, like a serpent finding a 
jewel in the forest (?). 
The past tense arises from the fact that the verb lend in Hindi 
is derived from the Skr. ^nr«T, through forms and and the pp. 
in Skr. is whence H. Although in Hindi the number of verbs of 
this class, those namely which form their present from one part of a Sanskr. 
verb, and their preterite from another, is so small that they have been classed 
as irregular, yet in the other cognate languages, notably in Sindhi and 
Gujarati, the number is very large; for instance Sindhi XTW to take (II. 
