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B. KKhadobbedi
12 As I would call it so 13 I also carried on such experiments in Kannada (my mother tongue)'and trans
lated a pretty good, number of gākās after this ideal, 14 I have followed here in the transcript the text of the gabās as found in Wéber's
Leipzig edition of 1881. 15 They - Other wives. 16 In those days there was a custom that, after washing one's, feet in the evening,
one should not go out. The shrewd house-wife. thus prevented her husband from going to another woman, possibly another wife, then staying at her parents' in
the same village. 17 We- my lover and I, endeavouring to quenche the fire.
$ I am grateful to Prof. A. Menezes (Karnatak University) who read the transla tion of these gāhās and gave me some suggestions.
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