The legends of the Panjâb

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78 LEGENDS OP THE PANJAB.
apart into a corner bathed herself and bathed the child too, just
for show, and wrapped it up in her clothes. When the washing
and bathing was over the bard of her family came to
and said, " I have been a servant in your family for a long while,
and I have no cow, so my children can get neither milk, nor
curds, nor ght. I am in great straits, and so I make you my
petition to grant me a cow."
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Then answered Dani, " When my
desire shall be fulfilled, then I will give you a buffalo* instead
of a cow as a present." Then answered the bard, " What desire
is left you Plenty is in your house, and the son you
wanted Sakhi Sarwar has granted you." When she heard
this Dani held her peace as she feared to let the news of her
son's death pass her lips.
Then Dani went (to Sarwar) and said
(In) this beautiful building and dome
The people come to worship thee.
That the praises of that foUowert may be recorded
90 Who built it.
(To) the pilgrims who go for the first time,
Sarwar sitting and becoming a trader.
Diamonds, pearls, rubies, jewels
Hath the Saint offered in trade.
When much of the night had been passed in praying, the
own homes, but Dani hid herself in a
people went off to their
corner of the shrine, and the attendant, thinking that there was
now no one in the shrine, shut the dooi- and went away. When
Dani saw that there was now no one in the shrine, and that the
door of the shrine was shut, she went into it and sat down
and spoke to him
95 She placed the boy at his feet
And addressed her petition to Sarwar :
victories hath Sarwar gained
She placed (the boy) inside in an empty place.
* The buffalo being preferable as supplying more milk,
t 'Isa Baniya in the time of the Emperor Aurangzeb.