صور الصفحة
PDF
النشر الإلكتروني

kete nelrē samromrā piti,

enrē gohomrā lad menā ? A.-Hurumsuku.

37. Q.-Miyad dariyārē marang kunța bidākanā, en kuntārā chetanre ora bayākanā, enrē isu pura khurji dōākanā; khurji lō'ōā, oṛā kā lō'ōā ? A.-Hukka.

k

golden baskets and inside there is wheat-bread ? The honey.

In an ocean a big stump is stuck; on the top of it a house is built in which heaps of treasures are stored up; the treasure burns, but the house will not burn ? The hubble-bubble.

The ocean is the lower part, the reservoir for water, generally a cocoanut. In the middle of it is the wooden tube, on the upper end of which the earthen top is put, containing the tobacco and charcoal.

Below they cook water, (but) the

[blocks in formation]

The hubble-bubble.

A.-Hukka.

fire they put above?

39. Q.-Chatu chațu tiringa- Earthen pots are put one on the

kanā ?

A.--Hukka.

40. Q.-Duniyārē bar horōge nida singi senhorātanāking?

A.-Singi; chandu.

41. Q.-Mid damra sunumte goţă disum marsalākanā ?

A.-Singi.

42. Q.-Disumrē

goenţa P

A.-Singi, chandu.

other ?

The hubble-bubble.

In the world are two men walking all night and day?

The sun and the moon.

The whole country is illuminated
by a small oil-filled lamp ?
The sun.

bariagiā There are two cow-dung flat cakes

in the world?

The sun and the moon.

This very strange comparison will

be understood by those who have seen how the poor ones are gathering the cow-dung on the streets and in the fields forming it into round flat-cakes and pasting it to the walls of their houses to use them when dried as fuel.

43. Q.-Bariage buṭakana gota Two trees are spreading their bran

disum dabāōākanā ?

A.-Singi, chandu.

1

ches over the whole world ? The sun and the moon.

The all-pervading power of the light is compared with the shadow of the wide-spread branches of the trees.

44. Q.-Daruko tupung, rājkō- The trees are being cut, the land

tang ?

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]
[ocr errors][merged small]
[ocr errors]
[blocks in formation]

52. Q.-Garā garāte pundi hisir In the rivers white hisir-neck

atuna ?

A.-Hae mēd.

53. Q.-Nauā kiringākan kun. dam rēkō do'yā?

A.-Tarpat.

54. Q-Hanar kimin miyad gandurēking dubakanā ?

A.-Uri diring.

Also; Miyad gandure bar “horōking dubakana ? 55. Q.-Miyad kuri begar dumangte susuntanae ? A.-Chapua sipud kuri.

56. Q-Baria kuriking ayar tayōmking ugud lapātanā?

A.-Chapua kunutid.

laces are swimming?

The eyes of the fish.

The newly-bought (things) they. throw (into the pit) behind the house?

The ear-ring.

“Kundam,” because the woman self cannot see the ring in the

ear.

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are sitting on one chair? (This is not allowed, therefore mentioned as a very strange fact.) The horns of the ox.

Two men are sitting on one chair?

A woman is dancing without the (sound of a) drum ?

The woman treading the bellows of the blacksmith. The rule is nobody dances without the sound of the drum.

Two women are bending forward and backward to the ground (as in dancing)?

The two bamboo-sticks of the bellows.

At the end of two bamboo-sticks,

dug in the ground, two strings are fastened to the bellows, two skin-covered round frames, standing on the earth. Each of the

7

[blocks in formation]

two skin-covered frames, has a hole in the middle which is now covered and then uncovered by the treading women (or coolie). Dead cows are sighing ?

The bellows (covered with cowskin).

One tiger (the treading woman or coolie) is jumping on two cows (the skin-coverd frames) at one time ? The bellows.

Two oxen are sighing heavily when the yoke is put on them, but not when the yoke is taken off ?

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small]

62. Q.-Mid gelē bābāte goṭā By one rice-ear the whole house is

oṛā perējōā ?

A.-diyā.

filled ?

The oil-lamp.

This is an allusion to the story told about Singbonga. When coming to the earth in the disguise of a youth, he was ordered to take care of the rice; but he allowed the fowls to pick up the rice, and when scolded, he took one rice-corn by which in a

[blocks in formation]

Kubā osarrā tōā (the milk) isu The comparison of the hanging

sibilā ?

66. Q.-Checha

dang ?

cluster of the plantain tree to an abscess is very strange.

hața ding Broken bamboo-shovels are moving hither and thither with a sound?

[blocks in formation]
« السابقةمتابعة »