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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 2

Note 99 — THE TWO SISTERS WHO ENVIED THEIR CADETTE.[98]

Richard Francis Burton translation

Pop. “Ghaut” = The steps (or path) which lead down to a watering-place. Hence the Hindi saying concerning the “rolling stone”—Dhobi-ka kuttá; na Ghar-ká na Ghát-ká, = a washerwoman’s tyke, nor of the house nor of the Ghát-dyke.

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