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He was accustomed to speak and to act strangely, but all the people accounted him holier on account of these eccentricities. One of his orders was, that if any man was in trouble and wished to be relieved of it, he must set free an ox These oxen thus set free were to wander whither they liked, and do whatsover they wished, and nobody dared to lift up a stick against them, or to complain. In olden days several of these oxen wandered about, and were a great nuisance ; but now they have been reclaimed and put to the plough. Saiyid Muhammad 'All was buried in Pakharpur, and many visit his grave during the year. Pdkhui chhuh pdk. Only the Pure One is pure {i. e., GoA). Panah sdn hheyih buni tahjifs son kheyih hunt. He will eat the chindr tree — leaves and all, and he will eat the dog with the skin. A regular cannibal, not satisfied with enough. Panah tali dihj tah dehjih tali pan. Below the thread the ball or knot, and below the knot the thread. A man, who sees that he is, but will not confess that he is, in the wrong. Panane hachih chheh hah/ih trachih. One's own harvest (no matter how small) is as twelve traks. The produce of one's own labour is sweet. Trak is a grain measure containing nine and a half English pounds. 163 Pananev chhuk nah paigamhar mdnmut. A prophet is not accepted by his own people. " A prophet is not without honour save in his own country and house." — Matt. xiii. 57, Panani hiker nai bad dsih tah lukah hundih garik ky6eiA truvih ihul ? If your hen is not a bad one, then why does she go and lay her eggs in other people's houses ? Ungrateful offspring. Panani nam chhik pananih thar hashan. Scratching one's back with one's own nails. Batiafying yourself with your own money, own honso, Ao; Bustin of oa'di — Bajuz ndkhun o juz $arangxuht-irnan, Na ^hdrad ka$e darjahdn pusht-i-inan. Pannni p^im diwi'm hhjis. Giving yonr reproach to another. Some kashmirfs say pin instead of p4m, and then it ifl r— Giving yourself to another. Making out everyone as bad as yourself* Pananih athah rdwarun tah beyih sund raUhrun chhuh barubar. To lose anything by one's own hand, and to receive anything ot the hand of another, is equal. To receive a benefit is to soli one's liberty. Pananih bachhih ax animah atih ktUjah maehhih goUhan paidah ! If there should be any rice-water upon your fire-place, bow many flies will be bom there ! Money attracts friends. Pananih bananah tah lukah handih wananah. Because I am, what I am, people say this of me. Pananih garuk h'^k-w'ik chhni beyih sandis puldwas baMar. Vegetables from my own garden are equal to puldv from another man's (house). Puldv is a dish of meat and rico cooked together with spices. Pananih thajih ai batah 6sih kctyuh m&jih gabar gaUhan paidah ! If there is any food in the pot how many mothers and children will be born ! 164 Pananui pon chhuh panis phdtawdn. Breaking the log with the log's own wooden wedge. Another version is :~- Ponui pMtawdn chhuh zinis. A (little) wedge (from the tree) splits the wood. Set a thief to catch a thief. A big tree in the jungle was ordered to be cut down, and ab-eady four men had gone to the blacksmith's shop to purchase an axe for the work. One man, who admired the tree, heard these men speak- ing together and forming their plans ; and went at once and told the tree. The tree replied, "Thanks, 0 friend, for the information, but do not be afraid. Four men and an axe will not do much damage to me." The next day the man came again and said, *' More news, O tree ! To-morrow these men are coming to destroy you." The tree again tried to assure the man that four little men and a pound or so of iron could not do any material damage to a big tree like he was. The man 'went, but returned again the next day saying, " O tree, be not elated by false hopes. These men have laid a clever aud certain plan for your destruction. Listen, One man will first climb you ; and cut off one of your thin top-branches. Out of this branch he will make a handle for the axe, and a wedge. Then he will prepare a hole in your trunk and insert the wedge, upon which they will strike and strike until your great wide trunk is completely severed." "Alas! alas!" said the tree, "by this means they will bring me down ; I am certain to die." Pananui zdgdn kulphas tah tdris ; Pananui kustdm san het drAv, One's own relation lies in wait for lock and bolt ; It is a relation who goes out with the stolen goods. Pdnas khetan magar donas pevtan. Let him eat, but let him keep his fire. Selfish fellow, we do not want anything from him ! Pdnas nishih paiisah chhui gul tai mul, Bey is nishih pahs ah chhvi hil tai hech. Your own money is flowers and wine, but another's money is but weed — nothing. Pdndah-Chhuh nashan sulch tah Iforin dukh. O Pdnda-chhuk, let there be peace to your daughters-in-law, but trouble to your daughters. Shekh Kur-ud-din's curse upon this village, which is about three m.iles from Srinagar in the Isldmdbid direction. 165 Pdnih rust ddnih khaiiyd zih ndnih rust shur kha%h. "Will the rice rise without water, that the child should grow without a grandmother 1 A grandmother's influer.oe in a hoase is very often greater in every way than that of the mother of the family. Pdhsah ai thawizen murdas peth 8uh tih gaUhih thud wuthit. If a paisd be placed upon a dead man he will rise up. Money will bring people back from the dead. Hind 68 place a pais& inaide the month of the corpse, wherewith it may be able to pay the ferry, Ac, of. note " Ayas wate,'* Ac. Pdhsah gav pdrud tnh mihrdz, yat peth thawizen tat tjatih. Money is as quicksilver and scissors, lay it upon what you will, it will cut it (t.^., do its work). Pf'hs'ih nishih chhuh pdhsah phafdn. Paisds burst out of paisas. Money makes mouoy. Panun ai imrih shihilia tr^unh; parud at mdrih tah murithui gatjhih. If my own (relations or friends) umite me, he will leave me in a shady place (i.e., he will bury me) ; but if a stranger smites me he will kill me and go. A friend '■ a friend for aye that. Panun ai marih, totih kunih jdyih tdrih. If my own smite me, yet in some place he will help me. Ad supra. Panun kh^w/ln pnnzu tah heyih sund kardn datwtimu. Eating a good dinner in his own hou^e, yet interfering in the matters of other people (i.f., disputing for them, scandal- ising them, &c.) Mind your own dinner and mind yonr own basines*. Panun muhim chhuh huwi.n punai wat. Each misfortune will show its own way. Panun paizdr babah sum pombar. One*s own shoe and father's shawl. Hardly earned, dearly loved. A boy purchased a pair of shoes with his own earnings, and one day as he was walking along in these new shoes they became very dusty. The boy was mnch grieved and sat down by the way side and cleaned them with hia beaatifol paahmina ihawl, which his father had given him. 166 Panun wadandioih parud asandwik. He made his friends to weep, but his enemies to laugh, Panzih hund ptA. A monkey's young one i.e., (a chip of the old block). A variant of this with quite a different meaning is : — Panzih hund put, yusui toth chhus asm ; tas chheh zorah wachhas tal rafan, sui chhuh mard,n. The young of a monkey, who is dear to her ; she presses it hard against her breast, so that the young one dies. A favourite child or servant, is often spoilt by an exaggerated affection and regard. Natives say that monkeys love their young ones so much, that in the excitement of their affection they sometimes press them so hard against their breasts, that they get stifled and die. Panzis dapyd punz zih mandul chhut wazul. Will a monkey tell a monkey that his buttocks are red ? The crock calling the kettle black. Pardn pardn par gayih Jihali, Vhar gayih kitdbah buri het. He reads and reads until his strength is gone, and he has become like a donkey carrying a load of books. " Much learning doth make thee mad." — Acts xxvi. 24. Paraspurik wdzah pdnai randn tah punai pananin athan thokah trdwdn ! The cook from Paraspur cooks the food himself, and he him- self spits into his own hands (as if disgusted with it) ! Disgusted with one's own work. Many cooks reside in Parasp6r, a village in the Ldr tehsil. It is a custom with the majority of cooks to first sit down and eat their own dinner (by way of tasting perhaps ?) before servin g up the different dishes to the guests.