In Indian Folk Tales (Gordon), p. 59, a large grain measure (pailā) having quarrelled with his wife, the small grain measure (pailī), and beaten her, she ran off, and on her way met with a Crow, which invited her to stay with him. She inquired, “What will you give me to eat and drink, what to wear and what to spend?” The reply being unsatisfactory, she went on, and met a Bagulā (crane or heron), which also invited her to stay, and when asked the same question gave an unsatisfactory answer. She next met a King, who said, “I will place one cushion below you and one above, and whatsoever you desire you may have to eat.” She refused this, and met a dog, who told her that in the King’s store there was much raw sugar, of which they would eat as much as they pleased. She accepted this offer, and they lived in the store; but one day the King’s daughter threw in the scales, which wounded the dog on the head, so the measure jumped out.
[2] An imitation of the song of the bird, apparently. [↑]
[3] Māt ekka giyāma nākēyi? [↑]
[4] “Stooping man, there is heat, heat.” [↑]
[5] Kujija is a man who stoops. He may have thought it said, “Stooping man, you are refuse.” [↑]
[6] Kuṭi is a bend. He appears to have interpreted it as, “Stooping man, you are bent, bent.”
All these expressions are imitations of some of the notes of the bird’s song. [↑]