barsat

Updated: June 21, 2025

Here I purchased four goats for one dhoti merikani, the best bargain I ever made. Thunder had rumbled, and clouds overcast the skies for two days; and this day a delicious cooling shower fell. The people said it was the little rains chota barsat, as we call it in India expected yearly at this time, as the precursor of the later great falls.

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