(Rhymed version of stanzas translated by Professor Rhys Davids.)

I.

Hot steams my food: all milked the cows—

The Herdsman Dhaniya said—

Hard by there stands where Māhi flows

New thatched my lowly shed:

My friends are near, my hearth burns bright,

Then let the rain pour down to-night!

II.

Cool is my mind: no "fallow"[BB] there—