1887.] J. Hinton Knowles— Kashmiri Riddles. 137 
I built a bouse, I built a bouse up in tbe seventh heaven. I spoke 
not to a mason, I spoke not to a carpenter. I built it myself (and all 
tbe) hundreds of rooms in it. 
Ans. Manchh gan, a bee-hive. Cf. No. 60. 
Satyum asman , the seventh heaven, (falaku-l-afldk ) the empyrean 
heaven. 
Muhammadans undoubtedly get their tradition of seven heavens 
from the Talmud. Cf. Sughes y Notes on Muhammadanism , pp. 91-95. 
The bees generally build their houses high up in the hollows of 
trees and rocks. 
57, Tshar chham tah bar chham; 
Rdjih sandih bdgh chham ; 
Rushalah walit chham; 
Nav lachh mukhtah gandit chham. 
I have (something which) is empty, and I have (something which) 
is full. 
I have (something) in the raja’s garden, 
I have (something that) wears a shawl, 
And I have (something which) is adorned with nine lakhs of pearls. 
Ans. Makayili wat , Indian-corn. 
Below are three variants of the same riddle— 
Sari thi 
Man bharithi 
Ghane motion se jari thi 
Bdhir maidan dharti par dosald orhe khari thi. 
Ans. Khet makki hi. 
Jat district, Eastern Jamna Canal, N. W. P. 
Sari thi 
Man bhari thi 
Sawd lakh moti jari thi , 
Rajdji ke bdgh men , dushala orhi khari thi. 
Ans. Bhuttd or makki 
Hindi riddle. 
Sari thi. man bliari thi 
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Lakh motion jari thi, 
Rdjdji ke bdgh men jatan khilari khari thi. 
Ans. Chhali. 
Panjabi. 
Cf. Punjab Notes and Queries , Vol. I, 899, Vol. II, 626 and Indian 
Notes and Queries , Vol. IV, 68. 
