[1] A dish made of rice and lentils cooked together with clarified butter or ghee, and then boiled. [↑]
[2] Another native dainty made with sugar, etc. [↑]
[3] This is a well-directed piece of sarcasm against native horse-dealers who drug their horses; also against would-be judges of horse-flesh. [↑]
THE DOG WHO WAS A RAJAH
A daughter was once born to a Brahmin and his wife, and from the day of its birth a dog came daily and laid down in the house.
This made the mother say, in jest, when the child would not cease crying: “Stop, or I shall give you to the dog.”
And the Brahmin added: “I will give her to the dog when she is grown up.”
When the girl grew up, he said to the dog one day, in a fit of temper: “Here, take my daughter, and do as you wish with her.”
The mother now regretted her jest, which had suggested this idea to her husband, and said: “Here, my child, take this handful of seeds, and, as you go, strew them along the road, so that I may know where to find you.”