Father Christmas, behold, all ashiver with cold, But the parent of blessings too vast to be told;

a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment

The largely non-Semitic and non-Christian, Graecicizing form of the names of the beings named are not part of the standard repertoire of names invoked in the traditional baptismal context, which suggests that they originated elsewhere.

Out of the total number of 15,155 villages and 474 patwars in the State, 14,545 villages and 438 patwars were covered by the Co-operative Movement up to the end of the year under report.