The legends of the Panjâb

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80 LEGENDS OF THE PANJAB.
Ddni.
All (saints) are great, art thou, Saint, less (than they)
There is none false as thou
Show me some good plan;
Why hast put away my desire
And Danl said, " Nama, the Dyer,* was of low caste. His
cow died from a blow from his bundle of clothes, and he
restored the cow to life. And Dhauna, the Jatt,t made God
himself to appear from the stone. What art thou not equal
to such men as these V Then answered Sarwar
130 The king seized Nama, the Dyer ;
He went outside to slay him
His bread and water were yet mixed :f
He restored the cow to life and was saved.
Else he had been in trouble (pain)
135 The actions of Dhanna Bhagat were holy.
Nama restored the dead cow to life
In the very cold month of January
He bathed seventy times :
Before the gate of the King
140 He loosed the calf and made him suckle.
Saying this the Saint sprinkled some of his own holy water
over Danl. She became insensible, and Sakhi Sarwar began
himself to repeat the morning prayer.
When compassion entered into Sarwar's mind,
Then he went to the throne of Gl-od :
Before God he made his petition,
" Thou alone art the Giver of Gifts !
And he made this quotation (from the Quran !
!), " My good
report is with Thee and my eyil report is with Thee. If the
child
does not live then will dishonour be to me, and if he live
then will honour be to me."
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* Namdev, the celebrated Bhagat and Poet.
t Dhanna Bhagat, hero of a very popular tale.
1 I.e. he had still to live : an idiom.