The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 594

(32). In her father's-in-law and in her father's house she is her beloved's, (her) beloved is in- approachable and bottomless.

Nanak (says): she is a happy married woman, who is pleasing to him, who is without concerns.'

(33). (Who) is bathed, washed and adorned, who sleeps and has no care:

0 Farid, she is surrounded' with Assafoetida, the fragrance of musk is gone.

' ftPHT75V*>rT fem. dimin. of fjJH. heart (instead of ftPK?5^ or ftPM^)-

" o?tT^> s.»2. dim. usually uritton oTH (5^^T. dim.).

^ tfiGr*T> has become to me (Sindhi f^T'^l'f'T); »" being pronominal suffix of the 1st pers. sing.

' vTpfr, in. properly = flesh; here = body; cf. \erse 40.

° <JIJM) (now ^^^^5^), a coarse woollen blanket, which the Panjabis near iu rainy weather and during the cold season.

' The following verse gives the solution of this paradoxon.

* This verse is not Farid's, but of a certain Nanak; in none of the manuscripts, however, I have compared, I finil the malialla put down; very likely the verse is Guru Arjun's, the compiler of the Granth.

" The words must thus be divided:?T ti^: ti^Al = ^;^AI, to surround.

(34). Youth is passing, I am not afraid, if love to the beloved does not pass.

0 Fand, of what (use) is youth without love? it is faded and gone!

(35). Care is (my) bedstead, pain the coarse twine (of the bedstead), the pangs of separation (my) bedding (and) coverlet.

(36). 0 pangs of separation, 0 pangs of separation, (thus) it should be said, 0 pangs of separation, you are (my) king!

0 Farid, in which body no pangs of separation spring up, that body consider as a burning-ground!

(37). 0 Farid, these Gandal-stalks ^ of poison are put down overlaid with sugar.

Some, in cooking them, are gone oS, some have thrown away the cooked one.

(38). 0 Farid, four (watches) are passed in walking about, four are passed in sleeping.

The Lord will ask account: of what use wert thou?

(39). 0 Farid, having gone to the gate hast thou seen the gong?

This one is innocently beaten, what (will be) the state of us, the guilty ones?

(40). At every Ghari it is beaten, at every watch it receives punishment.

That (my) body passes, like the gong, in pain the night.

(41). Shekh Farid has become old, (his) body begins to shake.

If there shoxild be a life of a hundred years, yet the body will become ashes.

(42). 0 Farid, let mc not sit at the gate of another, 0 Lord!

If thou wilt put me so, take my soul out of my body!

(43). On the shoulder an axe, on the head a large earthen vessel, the blacksmith is King^ in the forest.