Hobson-Jobson / A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive

by Sir Henry Yule; A. C. Burnell

Pānī bāgh, pānī ramnā;

Pānī Gangā, pānī Jumnā;

Pānī haṅstā, pānī rotā;

Pānī jagtā, pānī sotā;

Pānī bāp, pānī mā;

Barā nām Pānī kā!"

Thus rudely done into English:

"Thou, Water, stor'st our Wells and Tanks,

Thou fillest Gunga's, Jumna's banks;

Thou Water, sendest daily food,