1887.] 
J. Hinton Knowles—Kashmiri Riddles. 
139 
One goes on and is never tired ; 
Another sits and never rises ; 
Another stands and never sits. 
Ans. Ab, water— zamin , earth—and asman (yd nab), the 
firmament. 
63, Machih kadit munih thas. 
Taking it out of a large earthen jar and dashing it against the wall. 
Ans. Kheni kadani , blowing the nose after the native fashion. 
If sitting in his house, the ordinary poor Kashmiri will fling the 
snot against the wall. Vide Nos. 43 and 138. 
64, Kurih hand asam; duhas asam phirit thurit yiwdn, kdlachan asam 
baras tal bihdn. 
I have a little girl, by day she wanders hither and thither, at 
night she sits down by my door. 
Ans. But , a staff. 
65, Herih kanen khushkah grattah , hukli tah audur melili tath; 
Tami werih dlam pherih, pethim tsakuj pherih nah zah. 
Above is a dry mill, dry and wet will meet there; 
For it the world will turn, (but) the upper mill-stone will never turn. 
Ans. As , the mouth. 
Its roof is the dry mill,—where dry and wet food meet. The world 
will turn before the upper jaw will move, i. e., it will never move. 
Werih, (for the sake of) is very ancient Kashmiri. Khatirah or 
bdpat or kyut is now used. 
66, Sar hukh zih pintskdni muyih. 
The tank dried up and the pintskdni died. 
Ans. Tsong , a lamp (diwd Sansk.); pintskdni, (Pers. Ziwa.) 
All I know about the pintskani is that it is a little bird with 
extremely small eyes. 
67, Shoni, shoni krandas, 
Akusui zandas shurah sds. 
(It makes the noise of) shoni , shoni , in a lchilta. 
To one plant there are sixteen thousand seeds. 
Ans. Ganhdr , the Amaranthus anardana and Gangeticus. 
The pearl ashes of this wood are used by washermen for cleaning 
linen. 
68, Bdlali pethah minyimar ush trawan. 
A hind sheds tears from off a hill. 
Ans. Batah phydrun , straining rice (out of a pot). 
