Linguistic Survey Of India Vol V Part I Indo Aryan Family Eastern Group

BtTBDWAN DIALECT. 65

BhSbS dekh,man, keu kar-5 nay, mifchhS maya bhu-mandalS.

Meditating see, soul, anybody anybody's (i*-}nvt> false attachment (is) {Dearth-globe.
Din dui tin «barirkarta,' loke bale 'kartta, kartta,'

Days two three * Souse-master,* people call (you) * master9 master?

Laye jabe KalSr Karta bbaba-parer Kartar kachhe.

Taking hold will go of-Time the-Master wortd-beyond Master's nigh.

Bh8b8 dekh, man, keu kar-6 nay—

Meditating tee, swi, anybody anybody'* (is-)not—

FREE TRANSLATION OF THE FOREGOING.

0 soul, meditate and see, no one belongs to anyone*

False are the illusions in this world. Hast thou not worshipped the Teacher's feet ?
Hast thou become entangled in the^net of illusion ?

0 soul, meditate! etc.

She, for whose sake, 0 soul, thou diest meditating, will she go with thee P After
thou art dead, thy life-darling will sprinkle the outer doors.

0 soul, meditate, etc*

Thyself and thy family, they only are a straggle of illusion. Except the name of
God,, naught else will go with thee on that day.

0 soul, «neditate, etc.

For two or three days art thou the master of the house, and people call thee
* Master, Master.' But the Master of Time will take thee away to the presence of the
Master of the World beyond.

0 soul, meditate, etc.

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In the District of Burdwan, we find the Standard Bengali gradually merging into
the form which is generally recognised as the Western Dialect. In the east of the district,
however, it still belongs to the standard type, though with some irregularities. The
following example comes from the Katwa Sub-division, in the north-east of the district,
and may be taken as a sample of the language spoken in the east of Burdwan. The style
is contracted. Note that the third person singular of the past tense of transitive verbs
often ends in e instead of in a (5), and that an initial e is often represented by y'<J,
pronounced yd. Thus ek-t& is written fals-ta, pronounced ydkta. Note also that
aspirated letters are often disaspirated, as in kdohe for taohU, u$ for ufhiya, and mauy
other instances*

Bengali.