42. Q.-Disumrē 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. 39. Q.-Chatu chațu tiringa- Earthen pots are put one on the other ? kanā ? 40. Q.-Duniyārē bar horōge A.-Singi; chandu. 41. Q.-Mid damra sunumte goţă goenţa P Below they cook water, (but) the The hubble-bubble. In the world are two men walking all night and day? The sun and the moon. The whole country is illuminated 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 ches over the whole world ? disum dabāōākanā ? A.-Singi, chandu. 1 44. Q.-Daruko tupung, rājkō- The trees are being cut, the land tang ? (is resounding from) the noise (of the axe) ? A.-Setā. 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. The dog. The colour of the Pariah-dog is likened to the bark of a tree. The short barking sound is the blow of the axe. A man is strolling about with a crooked stick? 54. Q-Hanar kimin miyad gandurēking dubakanā ? A.-Uri diring. Also; Miyad gandure bar 55. Q.-Miyad kuri begar du- 56. Q-Baria kuriking ayar tayōmking ugud lapātanā? A.-Chapua kunutid. 52. Q.-Garā garāte pundi hisir In the rivers white hisir-neck atuna ? laces are swimming? The eyes of the fish. A.-Hae mēd. 53. Q.-Nauā kiringākan kun. dam rēkō do'yā? The newly-bought (things) they. throw (into the pit) behind the house? A.-Tarpat. The cooking-place (with its three holes for the cooking vessels). Two women are adorned with one necklace? A pair of tongs. The two hands of the tongs are the two women and the join (the screw) in the middle is the necklace. The ear-ring. “Kundam,” because the woman self cannot see the ring in the ear. 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 ? 61. Q.-Miyad chi'chi' cheñre goța disume marsaleae ? A.-diyā. 62. Q.-Mid gelē bābāte goṭā By one rice-ear the whole house is filled ? oṛā perējōā ? A.-diyā. 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 63. Q.-Miyad horō janmo hu- 64. Q-Mod horo kōsā'samange nelurumōãe, kōsā'doyā do ka? A.-Lijā. 65. Q.-Kubā ōsarrā sondrò isu 66. Q.-Checha dang ? A.-Kadal. A.-Kadalrā sakam. 67. Q.-Kubi gundia hatang isu sibila ? Or: Kubā osarrā tōā (the milk) isu The comparison of the hanging sibilā ? cluster of the plantain tree to an abscess is very strange. miraculous way all the earthen vessels and the whole house were filled. (Cp. the similar story told about Krishna.) A man is sleeping naked from his birthday to his death? The wick in the oil-lamp. The face of a man can be seen, but not his back ? The cloth. The pus of a crooked (bent-down) cow is very sweet? The plantain. hața ding Broken bamboo-shovels are moving hither and thither with a sound? The leaves of the plaintain. The brain of the bowing lit. (crooked) plough cow is very sweet? The plantain. "Gundi" also is the same as "holong "the flour. This mixed with COW or sheep's brain is a favourite dish of the Mundaries. Beams above and straw underneath, how can that be (scil. in the roof of a house) ? The leaf-cover. By this cover worn in the rainy season when at work, people are covered altogether, having only their hands free to work. |