Dardistan in 1866, 1886 and 1893 / Being an account of the history, religions, customs, legends, fables, and songs of Gilgit, Chilas, Kandia (Gabrial), Dasin, Chitral, Hunsa, Nagyr, and other parts of the Hindukush, as also a supplement to the second edition of the Hunza and Nagyr handbook and an epitome of part III of the author's "The languages and races of Dardistan"

by G. W. Leitner

The above describes the dream of a lover whose sweetheart has married one older than herself; he says:

Translation.

“That dear delicate little woman has a frightful old husband.

“Thou hast married a bear! In the dead of night, resting on my arm,

“My sleep became like waking. Hastily I turned and with a quick glance saw

“That my darling’s waistband shone with many colours,

“That she advanced towards me holding in her right a mirror into which she looked,

“That she came near me applying with her left the antimony to her eyes.”

7. MODERN ASTORI SONG.

This Song was composed by Rajah Bahadur Khan, now at Astŏr, who fell in love with the daughter of the Rajah of Hunza to whom he was affianced. When the war between Kashmir and Hunza broke out, the Astoris and Hunzas were in different camps; Rajah Bahadur Khan, son of Rajah Shakul Khan, of the Shíah persuasion,[31] thus laments his misfortunes: