_hop_." Muniya pronounces _kop_ like the English word _cope_. This
Shastra seems as hopelessly mythical as the _Rat-vasha-ke-dhan_.

XXX.--THE KING'S SON AND THE WAZIR'S DAUGHTER.

In a Servian story, "Des Vaters letzter Wille," pp. 134, 135, 136, of
the _Volksmaerchen der Serben_ collected by Karadschitsch, the
youngest brother has to take his brother-in-law's horse over a bridge
under which he sees an immense kettle full of boiling water in which
men's heads are cooking while eagles peck at them. He then passes
through a village where all is song and joyfulness because, so the
inhabitants tell him, each year is fruitful with them and they live,
therefore, in the midst of plenty. Then he sees two dogs quarrelling
which he cannot succeed in separating. He next passes through a
village where all is sorrow and tears because each year comes hail, so
the inhabitants "have nothing." Next he sees two boars fighting
together and cannot separate them any more than he could part the
dogs. Lastly, he reaches a beautiful meadow. In the evening his
brother-in-law expounds the meaning of all he has seen. The heads in
the boiling vessel represent the everlasting torment in the next
world. The happy villagers are good, charitable men, with whom God is
well pleased. The dogs are his elder brothers' wives. The sorrowing
villagers are men who know neither righteousness, concord, nor God.
The boars are his two wicked elder brothers. The meadow is paradise.

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GLOSSARY.

Bel, a fruit; _AEgle marmelos_.

Bulbul, a kind of nightingale.

Chaprasi, a messenger wearing a badge (_chapras_).

Cooly (Tamil _kuli_), a labourer in the fields; also a porter.

Dal, a kind of pulse; _Phaseolus aureus_, according to Wilson;
_Paspalum frumentaceum_, according to Forbes.

Dom (the d is lingual), a low-caste Hindu.

Fakir, a Muhammadan religious mendicant.

Ghee (_ghi_), butter boiled and then set to cool.

Kazi, a Muhammadan Judge.

Kotwal, the chief police officer in a town.

Lichi, a fruit; _Scytalia litchi_, Roxb.

Maharaja (properly Maharaj), literally great king.

Maharani, literally great queen.

Maina, a kind of starling.

Maund (_man_), a measure of weight, about 87 lb.

Mohur (_muhar_), a gold coin worth 16 rupees.

Nautch (_natya_), a union of song, dance, and instrumental music.

Palki, a palanquin.

Pice (_paisa_), a small copper coin.

Pilau, a dish made of either chicken or mutton, and r