The legends of the Panjâb

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264 LEGENDS OE THE PANJIb.
Raja BasaM.
" Sde re, ab turn suno, sundar, chatr sujan :
Adhi r^t nakhand hai, chalo nagar darmiyan.
Yeh batan kaisi Min, sue, sundar, cbatr sujau
240 Aj rat ko sair karen ham nagar darmiyan.
Nagar darmiyan chalen ; sun le bani.
Ja dekhen ik bar sbahar :
sun le kabani.
Chal dekbenge suwad cbar niari niari
Is nagari ke bach babot kam hamare."
Duti Sabrang,
245 " Eaja, Sodhi sbabar ke, dun main tumhen batS,e.
Jaise Raja ap bo, parja wabi subhao.
Parja us cbal jo had jaisS. RSja.
Tuk man ko samjhaeke woh kijiye k&ja
Kam Deo bJcb phiro marS, m§.ra :
250 Turn mat kar yeh k§.m, janam apna hara."
Rdjd Basalu.
"Hear me, my parrot, beautiful and wise :
It is dead of night at midnight, let us go into the city.
How shall this be (that I wish), my comely and sagacious
parrot
240 Let us wander in the city to-night.
Let us go into the city : hear my words.
Let us take one turn in the city and hear what is
going on.
Let us go and taste pleasures of 'many kinds.
I have much to do in the city."
The
Witch Sabrang.
245 "Raja, Lord of the city, I tell thee.
As the king is so will his subjects be.
The subjects' conduct is as the Raja's.
Do thy desire but think a little (over it) in thy mind !
Thou dost wander now stricken by the God of Lust.*
250 Do not thy desire and lose not thy life."
* Kama or Kam Deo the Indian Cupid.