The legends of the Panjâb

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298 LEOENDS OP THE PANJAb.
•675 Lo MahitS. ko gher, paun dale berl:
Woh Sila se bahin kag urS.ve meri
Babal, mat der karo, that sujao.
Us Mahitsi. ko b§,ndhke Agrohe Bo."
Ha/rbhoj
Sah.
" Jin ko beti diji un ke niche pair.
"680 Mahita seti na bane, Ml, ham§,rS, bair-
Bair nahin banta hai, lal hamare..
Ham beti ke bap, chalen paidal sare.
Sialkot upar hai kflnch hamara :
Ja pAchhenge Sila ka dukhia sara.
LacThhrni
Narayan.
»685 " Big tayyarl tum karo, Babal, fauj sangS,r
Mahita se sahiikar ko ham rakhen charvedar.
Eakhen charvedElr, bhaBji, jaisa hai woh Mahita,
^675
Encompass Mahit4 and put fetters on his feet
That has set my sister Sila to scare crows.
i680
Father, delay not, make ready the means (of going) ;
And binding Mahita bring him to Agroha."*
Harhhaj Sdh.
" To whom we gave our daughter we are inferior.
Make not Mahita onr enemy, my son.
He must not be made fin enemy, my son.
I am the girl's father, let
foot.
us all go (humbly) to him on
We must march to Sialkot
And go and ask all about Sila's troubles."
Lachhmi Narayan.
685 " Father, get quickly thy retinue and cavalcade.
I look on Mahita the Merchant as a (mere) menial.
I look on a menial, my good sir, to be as good as Mahita,
* Here the home of Silk's family. It is a ruined town near Hissar and
was the home of the Agarwal class of merchants. It was destroyed by
Shah&bu'ddm Ghori in a.d, 1194.