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NOTES

1. Guj . gagar^ gager^ gagar^ gagrt "water pot"; Guj. man "a large metal vessel used as a musical accompaniment by certain class of preachers" (Belsare, An Etymological Gujarati-English Dictionary (3rd. ed.) (Ahmedabad: 1940); Guj. bhat "bard." <»

2. Guj. kadvu "a portion of a Prakrit poem ending with a choral stanza," (cf. Skt . kadavaka "section of a great poem written in Apabhram^a dialect" (Sahityadarpana)

3. See N. B. Divatia, Gujarati Language and Literature^ Vol. II

(Bombay: 1932), 286; K. Me Munshi, Gujarata and Its Literatures Appendix, (1st ed,) (Calcutta: 1935) p. 382. (Subsequent editions do not contain Appendix.)

4. See vatan, above.

5. The asterisk (^) indicates that the refrain to be repeated is:

"Every day he gives up one of his wivese He insists on taking the Vow. My brother has become indifferent to the world."

6. The second day of the bright half of the month Kartik when the brother is invited to dinner by the sister and honored by her. See also, Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson, The Heart of Jainism (London:

1915), p. 263.

7. Refers to sister-in-law's functions in pre-natal ceremonies for brother's wife, where she ties the rakhdt,"protective amulet",to the wrist of her brother's wife. See op. cit., p. 200ff.

8. Gifts to expectant mother.

9. A period of 24 minutes.

10. The dagger (^) indicates that the refrain to be repeated is:

"My dearest, how is Sali timid? Listen to me; think this over. Who thinks twenty times before throwing away a defective cowrie, yet gives up present wealth (counting it as nothing), he should be praised'."

11. The most beautiful woman in Indra's heaven.

12. "He is made of flesh and blood."

13. "Don^t Lalk about something of which you are ignorant."

14. "Supreme bliss." "Put up or shut up."

15c "Muni^ monk, holy man."

16. "Why don't you go to Salt and tell him yourself."



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