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" AtaK-gat oorreiponds to the HindustiLnl &ni*j&nd. Here it means trouble, becaoae people run about hither and thither in time of distress. Atah-gat is also the name of that money which the Hindu father places in the hand of his married daughter when she goes on a visit to her husband's family. The " going and coming'* pay. Gurin Ugilc me tah khar gai padar ddrit. The horses got shod, and the donkeys put out their hoofs (for shoeing). Seek not what is beyond your position. Gurin nah posMn, Ih phalin chob. He can't manage the horses, and so he beats their manure. Too weak to trouble the " big guns," and therefore he oppreases the poor. Gurmut pitnsah tah runmut myund. Money made up (into gold, silver, and copper ornaments) is like a cooked mouthful (i.e., they are ready for sale in case of need, and until then they are useful ornaments). Gurtas m^l tah Uud h^t pat ah kani. Wishing to drink the butter-milk, but hiding the vessel behind him. To eat little when dining out, and to refuse more, yet all the while longing to eat a big dinner. Gyav Ich^wun tah gardanih kun athah Vigun. Eating ghi and then feeling his neck (to see if he was getting fat, the fool, — as if results would happen so quickly as that) ! JO 74 H Hd niulih. Ha miiji ! O father, O mother ! Among other occasions used on the following : — A man wants a loan, and the person whom he asks for this loan, replies : " I wonld lend it you willingly, but ' Ha, inalih, Hd mdji,' when shall I get it again ! Sabbah shah foni telih nah tah wuni. O Habbah Shah, tumour wuU, then, not now, was the time (for removmg it) ! Opportunity passed. Hahhah Shdh had a big ugly tumour on his forehead which might easily have been removed at one time, but he allowed the opportunity to go by. Hachivis guris zachuv zin. Tas ku8 Tchasih ? Mahi-Din. A saddle of rags for a wooden horse. Who will mount him ? Mahidin. Let a fool have to d.o with foolish things. Mahidin was a great student. Eeport says that he was well-up in all languages and religions ; at all events, he became mad and his name a proverb. His son now wanders about the city in a mad condition, and everybody does him honour. Hf'ijih Bdbah maGhumah, Idienah Uariyii ? O Haji Baba, give me some dinner ? Is it any trouble for you to eat 1 This is replied sometimes, when any person wants a special favour from another person ; or when a servant applies for increased wages, &c. Machdmah is a company dish consisting of rice, vegetables, raisins, colouring matter, and sugar. JSuhah tsuras galih chapdt. A cabbage to a thief is as a slap on the cheek. Little punishment for a small theft. Sahmas tah hdJcimas nishih rachhtain Khuduyo. O God, deliver me from the doctor and the ruler. Both Muhammedans and Hindus are frequently heard praying this prayer as they squat by the ghdt in the morning, washing them- selves. Hal^k nah pathih lah inum ! I've not got my rights, and yet he gives me a reward ! When Kashmiri people give a little more than they intended, or think right, for any article, they are apt to tell the shopkeeper that the overplus is largesse. The seller would then reply as above. Hal gatsAuni ehheh pU gaUhuni. To form habits is to make pain (e.g.y a habit of drinking, smoking, gambling, and extravagant dining, &c.) Halulas hudb tah harumas az/ib' A reward for things legal and punishment for things illegal. Bdlav galan nd tah dunes ddh karit ? The locusts will certainly decrease, but (meanwhile) they arc destroying the rice. Man dies but his influence remains. Small numbers of loousts visit Kashmir almost every year. Some- times a great army of them invades the valley and does terrible injury to the crops. Muhammedans eat the locust. They dry them in the sun, then grind them into powder, and afterwards make cakes of them. They are regarded as a groat delicacy. Bustdn of Si'dL— iS^a dar Icoh ahti na dar bd^ thakh ; Malakh hUttdn khurd o mardum inalakh. Hal^n bunan wukari ih^n ; hihht hiki tamahhim. Dented covers for dented saucepans ; and like men for Uke men. Ham^fuim Tcarih ruzah tah tawis garib ; Bukhtiri karih garib tah tuwis ruzah, A wealthy man can build a bath-room and a poor man can make it hot ; A poor man can build a fire-place and a rich man can burn it. The whole world is one great family, each member of which, be he ever so lowly, is indispensable for the help and comfort of the other. Hamsuyah wandit/av, garo. O house, I will make an offering to you of my neighbour. To try and pass one's misfortune on to the head of another. In time of sickness and trouble people are accustomed to make offerings uiito the house. Sometimes a ram is slain, and the priests are assembled and fed, and special worship is paid to the gods. Instead of offering anj-thing at his own expense the man in the proverb wished to offer something belonging to his neighbour. 76 Hand truk manA ranihy Jcackal truh karih nah hehh. A person with a little tact will cook a maund (i.e., will do something), but a dull, ignorant person will do nothing. Sangah nah t ah rang ah nah zangah zichh hashye, Dod nah tah dag nah. Kawah yiyem aushye 1 I am independent of you, O long-legged mother-in-law. There is no pain or agony to me. Why should I weep ? No love is lost between mothers-in-law and their children-in-law. Sdhth gayih haras gahi dit. The barren woman fastened her door and went. No heir to look after the property. Huntih zuydv gubar shituli pajih darydv us. A barren woman bore a son, and the small-pox swallowed him up. A man who suiBfers mnch pain rather than give up a work, but after all dies in the midst of carrying it out. Ednzas gubeyih lulih, ditshan ddrit Tculih, It became a weight upon the boatman's bosom, and so he threw it into the river. Cited when a man of some family maan*ies his son to a daughter of lower birth, or does anything else equally ignoble, because he cannot aflford to do the right thing. 'H.dnzas yelih chhuh darydvas andar wdv yiwdn, puth namah chhuh brohth namah hardn tah brohth namah chhuh puth namah kardn. When a storm arises on the river the boatman rushes from the fore-part to the hinder-part of the boat, and from the hinder-part to the fore-part. A man in trouble knows not what to do. Hapi-hdyun. Scarcity (lit., an outcry is raised). While these words are being written there is Hapi hdyun in tho city of Srinagar concerning rice. For some reason or other rice ia scarce and dear. Mdpat ashud hyuh gamut suh chiz ndydb. Like the bear's ashud that thing has become scarce. It is said that when the bear gets this grass, he devours it most greedily, and becomes uucouscioas for six moaths afterwards. 77 Hupat y&raz. A bear*s friendship. A stupid friend. A bear formed friendship with a man who was passing throngh his jangle. For some time he brought his friend large quantities of honey. One day the man fell asleep after eating the honey. While asleep a bee attracted by the sweetness alighted upon his mouth. The friendly bear seeing this thought that he woald save the man from the pain of a sting, and so he went and fetched a great piece of rock and aimed it with all his might at the place where the bee was* The stone frightened away the bee, but killed the man! Cf. "Folk- tales from the Upper Punj&b," by the Rev. C. Swynnerton, Jovvmai Afiatic Society, Bengal, Vol. LII., Fart 1 , 1888 ; also the story of the calf who got its head into the pot in " Notes on some Sinhalese Proverbs and stories in the Atita-V4kya-Dipaniya," by A. M. Senibiiyaka ; also the story given in " Dasent's Norwegian Folklore," where a goody is discovered by a friend beating her husband's head with a mallet in order to make a hole for the head in a shirt, which had been previously thrown over it ; also the Makasa Jataka, where a son broke his father's bald head to kill a mosquito, which had settled upon it. Hdpatas at aut /tsiheh tah suh "kariheh mi tjuehih ? If the bear bad flour would he not make bread ? Cited against a poor man with extravagant ideas. The bear may be sometimes seen smacking his paws together M natives do when they are making ohapitis. "Ear hart har kar, har wizih sur kar. Fight by all means, but at the time of fighting bo careful. flir/r hhiw&n gua tah h'lr muri m^iri. The starling eats dung and then shakes his head in a pleased sort of way. A shameless man. E.ar rangah musibat chhui ak diwunagi.