1887.] J. Hinton Knowles— Kashmiri Biddles. 131 
22, Ad gaz mamanih dod gaz puts. 
A veil one and a half yard long for my aunt who is only half a yard 
high. 
Ans. Sutsan tah panahddv, needle and thread. 
Puts , is the long piece of cotton cloth thrown over the head and 
allowed to hang down the back of the Kashmiri woman. 
23, Bar dit khar natsan. 
Shutting the door the ass dances. 
Ans. Grattah , a mill. 
Asses, I believe, run about and kick up their heels when they bray. 
The noise of the mill in motion is supposed to resemble them. 
This is a proverb also, and is frequently quoted concerning the 
man who is full of words in his house, while outside he does nothing. 
24, Darakhti janward; darakhtas chhuh nah bihan 
Bacliih kasM beshumdr; phdh chhuk nah zah dm an. 
It is a tree-bird ( i. e., has wings) ; it does not sit on a tree ; 
It has young without number ; it never hatches them. 
Ans. Gad, a fish. 
25, Kuthkuthdliye , kut khatsdyikhai; mukhtah yad barthai, mugal tupi 
ditstkai. 
0 woman, you ascended to the second storey, filled your stomach 
with pearls, and wore a hat like a Mughal. 
Ans. Danas peth dekchih , ( degchi , Pers.), a saucepan (of rice) 
on the hearth. 
Kuthkuthaleni, ancient Kashmiri for a very respectable woman, 
who generally sat in the kuth or kut. 
Kut , the floor or floors between the ground-floor and the topmost 
floor of the house. 
The bubbling boiling rice resembles pearls. 
Mugal tupi = kuldh-i-muahal. 
26, Dar dit har natsan. 
Shutting the window the starling dances. 
Ans. Yindar, spinning-wheel. 
27, Akahlad malare phakahlad poni; 
Yetih byuth dinddr , tatih byuth woni. 
Stinking water in a foul water-pot; 
Where the religious man sits, there sits the baniya. 
Ans. Gurguri, a smoking pipe of brass or copper (the huqqa). 
Malar , a big earthen water vessel holding between twenty-five 
and thirty sers of water. 
