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The kite has taken the egg. Give an answer. Let syphilis attack you. A Kashmfrf earso. " The kite has taken the egg,** means " Death has taken yoor child." liul is the Boond made for driving away kites. Musah Khdnun kastur. Musa Khun's nightingale. An obstinate fellow. This was a oolebratod hinl, which wonld nng when its master did not wish it to sing, and vice versd. Musalffiun marih drd^i. Batah marik Mdgi. Musalman will perish from atarvation, the Pandit will perish from cold. It is imperative upon the roliinons Pandit to batho in the month of January, and not a few die from so doing. Tho ordinary Mn.siil- mdn is not accustomed to fast, and so in famine timo is not ablo to bear the liniitiHl living so well as tho Pandit can. Mdg corresiKinds to our month of January. Mut Uul put-ddrih knlai ket atah hdrih. The madman escaped by the back window taking his wife upon his hack. A man who forsakes his fatherland, Ac. Afydnih kdm pisho tah wugrah dulyoy iah mtnah iulyo. My drop of vinegar, pot of unstrained rice, and pinch of salt. That is best which is ticcording to one's lot and temperament. Kdnz is rice-water kept till sour, and then used with fish, Ac, as vinegar, ¥Uh, lit., a flea, but here means little, an atom, a drop, &c. Wugrah is unstrained rice. Tho poorer classes do not strain their rice, as the doing so would considerably lessen the quantity. pul is a large earthenware vessel, big enough to iMtthe in. 148 My on dsit chon gav^ mangun hyut tah ashud gav. It was mine and became yours, and when I began to ask for it, it was (as if) collyrium to me {i. e., something to be much desired). To give away a thing and very much want it back My on hdjimat panun wachh. (Would that you would take) my pestle (and beat) your owik breast with it. A Kashmiri cnrse. Myuth gdmas tah hrufh pananis punas. Sweet to the Tillage, but rouojh to one's ownself. Charity begins at home A gentleman should show hiiHself such, in bis own house. 149 NMdn at t&nih zih ndddn chhuty adah chhuh nah ndddn. If the ignoraDt man knows that he is ignorant, then he is not ignorant. Ndddncu nasihat karuni goyu kih paneen nun dyun. Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel. (Cut bono ?) Nadaren mdl iah datnhuk hit. Wish of nadur, but pretence of dumb. '• A little, very little more, if you please "j and all tho time he wants a platcfol. Nadur is a vegetable growing in the cily lake, (the stalk of the Lotug-NUwnhium). It is eaten by all natives during the winter, because of its beating qualities, but it is especially eaten by Hindus on tho anniversary of a relative's death, when neither fish, nor fiush, nor turnips, Ac, are allowed for food, and on other groat days also. Dumb is thin, small nadur. Node ndm aamjhog ohhui insdmah sung zindagi, A meld by the river (all alive with excitement one minute and quiet the next) is like a man's life. " What is your life ? It is even a vapour.** Nadharani not. Nadhar*8 fright. Any special fear. ^ad^ar is a cormorant (?) Nd-fahm gav sui, yas nd-Jahmaa suet kom gaUhih. lie is an unintelligent man, whose business is with an unin- telligent man. A man is known by the company whiqh he keeps. Nafas chhuh san ddwdn Iah ijurah karandwdn. Lust causes a man to break into a house and rob. A glutton will steal. 150 Nafas-parwaras nishih yiyih nah hunar parwari ; be-hunarcts nishih yiyih nah sarwan. From a sensualist will not come a fondness for art ; and from an unskilful man will not come leadership. Nafsui my on chhui husiuiy ami hasti munganam garih garih bal ; Lachhih inanzah sdseh manzah akhdh lustm nah tah hetinam sari tal. My soul is like that of an elephant and that elephant asked me every hour for food ; Out of a lakh and out of a thousand but one is saved ; if it hadn't been so, the elephant had crushed all under his feet. One's craving lusts. A saying of Lai Ded's. T^dgah gddah^ wuchhanih haldl tah khenih hardm. The fish in the (sacred) spring is lawful to look at, but unlaw- ful to eat. Touch not ; taste not ; handle not. Nagrah nirit Pdndrenthan, Going out from the city and living at Pdndrenthan. A merchant's country-house. Pdndrenthan is a pretty little village about three miles from Srf- nagar. Nah chhas wutsani tah nah dasani, bihit chha^ labih, kanih hand kheni. There is no scorching or burning to him ; he just sits aside and eats a little. " What does he care ? He has not had to pay for it." Nah gatshem mdhchh tah nah gaUhem top. I do not want honey, nor do 1 want the sting. " Every thing that fair doth show, When proof is made proves not so." Nah hhair tah nah harlaat. Neither well-wishes nor blessing. A man who earns much money, but spends it in such a way a that nobody is especially benefited by it — not even his famUy. 151 Nah tran manz nah tntwdhan mant. Neither in three nor in thirteen. A partnership by no means. Nalah Ruzun palav. Nala Raj4's piece of cloth. Tlio climax of distress. Nala E4ji began his reign well. He was just and holy, and ovorybody respected him. Bat it ohanood that one day, while he was oat eating the air, ho saw two or three men gambling, and noticing that thoy each one seemed to be most excited over the game, he thought that it mast bo a very interesting moans of amase* mont and determined to learn it. Accordingly, when he got back to his palace ho called his wife and began to gamble with her. Uo grow more and more interested in gambling, ahtil at last under one or aiiothor form it was his hourly amusement. He was wonfe to lay vory high stakes — sometimes a palace, sometimes an army, and Bomotimes a lAkh of rupees. Rijis and other great men came from distant countries to play with hiim } and as he was more often an< Buccossful than sucoossfal, he soon lost all his coantry and his fortune, and escaiwd into a foreign land. He was wandering with his wifo iu a janglo in the strange land one day, when nothing remained to thorn both but one large wrap, which they cut into two pioces and made two wraps of. The SijA told the Bini, Damy&itf by name, to walk about the jungle in one direction and see what sho could obtain ; and he would go in another direction. A peasant who happonetl to bo in the jungle met the Rinl and gave her three dried fish. Sho took them to her husband with great delights and he told hor to go and wash them in the river. As she was washing thom behold ! amrit, the water of life, came forth from her thumb and touching the fish made them alive again, and they escaped in the river. She went and told her husband, who did not believe her, but thought that she had eaten the fish. The poor woman was very much hurt at hor husband's want of confidence in her, and was in much fear lest ho should forsake her — leave her alono in that desolate jungle. So sho arranged the bedding (which consisted only of the divide<l wrap) in such a way as that the BdjA could not possibly arise from his bed in the night without disturbing her. He was enveloped in one side of the wrap, upon the other side of which she was lying. Tho Rija however defeated her plans by cutting his piece of tho wrap ; aud ran away. On the road a snake bit him and his whole countenance tamed quite black and was so changed that nobody would have recognised in him the Nala Rdj4. However he survived and wont and took service in another Riljd's establishment. Tho Eaiii finding in the morning that her husband had abandoned her, resolved to go onto her father's house. Her parents wore terribly shocked and grieved to find their daufhter in such a state. They comforted hor, arrayed hor again in fitting garments, and 152 pTomised her, that if her husband did not appear by a certain date they would arrange for another marriage. News was sent to all the Rajas to appear at a certain date, because one of them would be chosen as the future husband of the beautiful girl. Among the many other Rajds which were present on the appointed day was the Raja in whose service the N"ala Ri,jd was employed. Nala R^j5 also went with him ; and when he had opportunity on the way, he related to his master all that had happened to him, — his gambling propensities, his ruination, his life in the jungle and his abandonment of his wife there. When the Rdja heard this he was dumbfounded with astonishment, and fell at his feet, " My brother," said he, " why did you not tell me all this before ?