The legends of the Panjâb

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THE LEGEND OF GUKU GUGGA. 127
Is chinta ko diir karo ; hM ptiran as tumliari.
Yeh tujh ko bar dia, Rao : main sach: mano kahi hamari I"
Ik same ke bich. men pabunclie Gorakhnath
60 Bagh bich bistar Ml ;
pilran hain karamat,
Piiran hain karamat : nith ne bistar dia lagae.
Ho gae pAran kam Rao ke ; btag jagi chhin manhin.
kuclih kare ap woh karta, us ke hath sahai :
Bina bhag nl mile jagat men, kara na birtha jae.
66 Mali aya daurke.
Malt.
" SunOj Rao MahS,raj ;
Ake utara bagh men ik sadhu hai aj.
Ake utara aj bagh men :
piiran bhag tumhari.
Keep this sorrow afar, for your desire is fulfilled,
I have told you this wordj Raja : I am true : mark my
words."
In the mean time Gorakhnath* arrived.
60 He rested in the garden : full is he of miraculous power.
Full is he of miraculous power :
the saint made his bed to
rest himself.
The object of the king is fulfilled ; his fortune prosperous
in the twinkle of an eye.
What can be done he (the saint) doeth; protection is ia
his hand.
Without (the favour of) fate nothing is obtained in the
world, and good deeds are never useless,
65 The gardener came running.
Gardener.
" Listen, Sir King,
A saint has come into the garden to-day.
He has come into the garden : your fate doth prosper.
* He appears to have been the Bralimaiucal opponent of the Freethinking
reformers of mediaeval India headed by Ramanand, Kabir and
others, who flourished ia the 14th and 15th centuries A,d.