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Temi difj noskik sui dapdn " Garak bigaryov." He who commits incest with his daughter-in-law says : *' The house has become bad." Every bad man suspects every other person of being bad likewise. Temi ditj wani las sui wani, yemi tjat wani tas sui want. He who plants a grove of trees, may God do so to him ; and he who cuts the grove may God do bo to him. •'Whose end shall be according to their works." Temi kerik TxhaUos tami kerih ai wasakak, yemi iapah ai lasahak tah lejik wasahah nak zak, I came up by this ladder and if I get down again by it and am free of this misfortune I will never steal from the pot again. Poor people's children are constantly pilfering from the pot. One day a little child was seen in the very act, and was caught at the 247 top of tho ladder, which generally runs np outside a Kashmiri hnt, and by which she sought to escape, perhaps, over the roof. While her mother was boating lier on tho top round of tho ladder, she shrieked out these words, which have passed into a proverb, and are now constantly cited by other and bigger children, when they are discovered doing anything forbidden. Temi hov tami nyov ; yemi Tchut tami rut lie who made the thing manifest caused it to be taken away, and he who concealed the matter, held it. Keep your own coonsel. Yhni hyut suh hut. He who took grief (into his heart) rotted away. Yhni hhani gang tas gayih tali andar panuni zang. He who dug a pit for others has got his own legs into it. Persian. — Chdh kan r^ ehdh dar peak kardah i khesh dyad pe$h. Yemi Jcur or suh gav Jchwar. He who does shame comes to shame. Yrmi hur gungul tami Icur hruv. Luhah hanzih Idganaiyih peth mo bar chi'v. Ho who began the harvest reaped the end of it. Do not be covetous over other people's fields. Yemi Tcur lawah hat suh tih tutu{ ; Yhni zol lawah hat suh tih tutui. He who made a hundred bundles of grass, to him so much ; He who burnt a hundred bundles of grass, to him so much. A master who does not praise the good servant and reprove tho bad, but serves all the servants alike. People gather the long lank water grass which grows by the river- side in the Autumn, tie it up into bundles, and sell them during tho Winter at the rate of sixty bandies for an 4n4. Yemi liikah hanzan michan tah tuJeran peth nazar ihav auh gav hairon. He who keeps his eyes upon the pieces of rice and bread of other people is in a wretched state. A loaliug, wandering, fellow. 248 Temi Sdhihan us ditus suh diyas mi hhos tih Ithyun Icyut ? Whom God has given a mouth, to him will not He, the same God, give a httle pot for his dinner ? Bustan of Sa'dl^Fafee tifal danddn hardwurda hud, Pidar sar ha fikrash faro hurdah hud. Mulchor gam hard e mun ai he "khirad-^ Har dnkas hi danddn dihad nan dihad. Temi shuli chhih wuchhmati yiti Icahtycih rudl This jackal has seen plenty of rain like this ! An old experienced man. Yhni wuchh naris tah dalis suh gav hhwor ; Yemi tshun aJds khoras pulahur^ beyis paizar. Suh chhuh barkhurddr. He who paid attention to the sleeve and border (of his gar- ment) was ruined ; He who wore a grass shoe on one foot and a leather shoe on the other, he was prosperous. The man who wishes to succeed must not mind a little dirt some- times. Yemis ** NannawuriK^ nov druv tas tsalih nah zah. If a man has got nicknamed ''Bare-footed,'* the name will never leave him. In olden times there lived in Kashmir a, very great man named Khwajah Karim Dm. He once visited the 'Id gih in time of snow. On arriving at the common he noticed the nice level ground and said to his attendant '* Take off my shoes. I "wish to run on the grass for a few minutes with naked feet." His servant obeyed, and Karim Dm ran about for a long time to his heart's content. From that hour the people called him Karim Nannawor. Of course he was very angry at this, and tried every means in his power to check it ; but all to no purpose. To the very hour of his death, and since, whenever his name has been mentioned, people ha*^e spoken of him as Karim Ndnnawor (i.e., bare-footed Karim). Yemuhui dor tah tamukui pun. "Whence the timber, thence the wedge. Set a thief to catch a thief. Yenan wenah tah wanan hi ; suh hami chhawai hapali. Wenah upon the river-bank and jasmine in the wood ; anc who plucked the jasmine ? The bear. Good things in the hands of the bad. Winah is a non-edible plant with a smell like mint. 249 Teni nah leunih, wonun nah kunih tah l-aU gats yerav ? Warp not to be found anywhere, woof (also) not (to be found) anywhere, and how many yards shall we sort ? An order but not all the requisites for fulfilling it. YUi behi Nogi Arzun tati behu Bugi Parzun ? Will B% Parzun (a poor, ignorant, fellow) sit in the same place with N^g Arzun (the great)? People should know their rank. Yeti pahali8 khyul tnti sahan guph. Where the shepherd's flock there the leopard's lair. Where riohee there thief, whore glass there stone, where a man of high position there envious, covetous persons. Y^tih ai dsih mengun su?i iih heyih Uengun. If there were a little boy here he also would be amused. Cited to a forward, impertinent, little fellow. Mengun, lit., sheep and goats' ordure, which being small, a little boy has been likened to it and called after it. TUih ib tatih dp. Where there is water, there is a god. Hindu8t4n(. — Ja/iiin a6 truVin dp. Rivers and springs as sources of fertility and purification, were at an early date invested with a sacred character by the Hindus, who are thoroughly in their glory, living in this land of Kashmir, a laud of riTers and fountains and lakes, kc. The Mnhammedans are constantly twitting their Hiud6 neighbours concerning the number of their water-gods. THih kon tatih nah hi'jat wyon. Where there is a one-eyed man there is no necessity for my presence. The natives declare that the Devil said thia. HindnstdnC — Kiin<\ terhd had-fiald. Persian. — Yak ehctshm gul, dvjar na hillcMll. PanjAbt — Kind kdchrd hoch-gardand : yeh Hnoh kamzdt ! Jahlag has apnd ehale, to ko{ tuk puchhe hat. T^tih nah balaioir tati^i wugarah tir ? Where that great man is not able, there will that poor, weak fellow be able, to do anything ? Wugarah tir, lit., a h&ndful of cooked-rice, but here means a poor, weak man. 32 250 Yetih Raja Bhoj tatih Gangd Tili. Where Raja Bhoj there Ganga Till. Money is oftentimes the only patent of nobility besides lofty pretensions. Raja Bhoj was the celebrated sovereign of Ujjain, the great patron of learned men, and to whose era the nine gems or poets are often ascribed ; the " Singhdsan battisi " describes his virtues. But Gangd Till was an oil-merchant whose only claim to sit in the great Rdja's presence was his great wealth and a little kind- ness once shown by him to Raja Bhoj's predecessor, RajaVikramSditya. Yetih top tatih shuhul. Where sunshine there shade. " There is compensation in this world even." Yets gov zih mefj gav. More than enough is as dirt (no use to a man). Yet^an zanunan poni Tidmuni, tah Uarcn mardan batah Icdmuni. Many women, Httle water ; and many men, little rice. It is the custom both among the Muhammedans and the Hindus for the women to fetch the water from the river. If there should be more then one woman in the household, there will probably be frequent quarrelling as to who shall perform this duty, and sometimes both having refused to go for the water, the members of the household will " run short " of this necessary commodity. On the other hand, if there should happen to be more than one husband or man in the house, there will probably be constant wrangling amongst them as to who shall pay the baniya's bill. " Yi bandah yaUh'<n ti no sor. Ha wulo ly'-la-ydro lo.^' "What the servant wishes cannot be had. Come, O my young friend." Man proposes but God disposes. Yi wuth haiih ti Jdiut matih. What has gone down the throat has ascended as a charge to keep. A promise is a charge to keep. Yih chhuh bich yut rachhihan, tut diyih iuph. This is a scorpion, as many as cherish it, so many will it sting. An ungrateful, malicious person. Yih chhuh hhush-Jchowiir tah ulaiah. Dapahas^ *' Daryovas gatsh,'' tah gatshih henaras. He is a left-handed, contrary fellow. Say to him, " Go to the river," and he will go to the drain. 251 Yih chhvh huni — wushkah tah miinshi guh hyuh, nah lagan lewanas tah nah zulanas.