zor kor veshive sahlaban

Bank of Jhelum somewhere outside of Srinagar. 2010.



buji aki dop yi kya didi gom
kasabay osum su kot didi gom
su ha didi nyunay gura aban
zor kor veshive sahlaban

Said an old granny in a wild flurry,
“Oh, woe is me! Oh, woe is me!
O where’s my headgear?”
“O granny dear, O granny dear,
The yellow flood has carried it off.”
The Vishav has overflown her banks.

A Kashmiri limerick displaying from  J.L Kaul’s Kashmiri Lyrics (first published in 1945. revised and edited by Neerja Mattoo (2008)).
Vishav, fed by Kaunsarnag lake, is a tributary of Jhelum which it meets at Bijbehara..
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