Chapter CIV

3. Even from a crow's mouth--the crow is the chief omen and messenger, of a lover's return. Cf. No. CXXIII, and also _Journal of Indian Art_, No. 128, p. 103 and figure 12.

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These are clearly related to reverdies of the folk, such as the Kāshmīrī songs recorded in Ratan Devī's _Thirty Indian Songs_. It is probable that the more one could learn of contemporary folk-song, the more apparent would be Vidyāpati's dependence on the folk-tradition. These popular motifs are interwoven throughout with the familiar similes of the classic literature. Perhaps we ought to think of Vidyāpati as a sort of mystic Burns.