Editorial note — Flaxius in India

This exquisitely beautiful incantation poem will be readily intelligible to every Sanskritist, with the exception perhaps of the last line, which is in a later vulgar dialect. It means, accurately translated: ‘I am a gypsy foot-traveller.’ In common dialect it would be, ‘Ro-mani pat-engro shom.’ Omani for ‘Romany’ occurs in The English Gypsies and their Language. ↩