Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.124
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.124
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c10.124
*Ak-rā jhoprā,*
*Phok-rā bār,*
*Bajra-rā roti,*
*Mot’h-rā dāl:*
*Dekho Rājā teri Mārwār.*
(For houses hurdles of *madār*,
For hedges heaps of withered thorn,
Millet for bread, horse-peas for pulse:
Such is thy kingdom, Raja of Mārwār!)