| Maya Singh, Henry Martyn Clark - Panjabi language - 1895 - 1246 pages
...large fishhawk found near water. It lives on fishes and wild fowls. The popular story is that kuralai hunt in couples, one before the other. The first flies...surface of the water croaking Allah ! Allah ! and the fishes which come to the top to see who the pious person is, are seized by the other bird. KUÇAM 5ГЗН... | |
| Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Folklore - 1910 - 672 pages
...Mohammedans because it brought water to Imam Husain when he was martyred. Sindhi kdlkanchhl. A'ura/, a large fish-hawk. The popular story is that kurals...! ", and the fish which come to the top to see who is the pious person are seized by the other bird. The following note comes from an old Settlement Report... | |
| Edward O'Brien (of the Indian Civil Service.) - Lahndā language - 1903 - 384 pages
...bird of ill-omen, it is considered extremely ugly. s. IK. the spoon-bill (platatea leucorodia). 3. m. a large fish-hawk. (The popular story is that kuralS...which come to the top to see who the pious person is arc seized by the other bird. s. /. a tern. jm a sandpiper. sm black partridge. sm the female of a... | |
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