And another saying yet:
Aheer zuduryâ Pâsee
Teenon Satyâ Nâsee.
TRANSLATION.
An Ahīr, a shepherd, and a Pâsee (low caste);
If these three get together, mischief is sure to come.
Ahīr is a general term for a pastoral race noticed by Ptolemy. They are distinguished as three tribes, viz., the Nand bansa, Yadu bansa, and Goala bansa. (See Wilson and Elliott.)
“Two Swords in one scabbard.”—Appeals to the sword are very common with natives of Northern India, indeed many of the warlike tribes worship their weapons.
When sharpened for service by a “Sikligur,” a man who makes it his business to give a keen edge to swords, he applies two tests. One is that the edge shall be sharp enough to cut through a ball of teazed cotton, balanced on the blade, and the other that it shall, with a light touch, lift a copper coin off a table.
A Punjabi Sipahi, referring to this, was overheard to say,