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bhalaa : 'Good, excellent, virtuous, righteous; honest, respectable; benevolent, kind; healthy, well, sound; fortunate, prosperous'. (Platts p.190)
pallah : 'Space, distance, reach, range (of a gun, &c.)'. (Platts p.267)
FWP:
SETS == EXCLAMATION; HUMOR
MOTIFS == ARCHERY
NAMES
TERMSThe verse really is amusing! The most enjoyable part is the way the safe distance from the beloved is imagined not as beyond the range of an arrow-shot, but as beyond the range of several arrow-shots! (The idiomatic 'two four' [do chaar] is more like 'three or four' than like 'two or three'.) Either the speaker is (crazily?) prudent and risk-averse, or else the beloved's archery has (possibly unknown) capabilities well beyond the normal. Or, of course, both.