The legends of the Panjâb

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RAja MAHi PARKASH OP SARMOR. 877
(So they said) " Thy country has been robbed, R4jeI,
by thy servants and their horses.
45 Thy servants and their horses are to fight at the DesA
Dhar.
Thy servants eat the rice, and we drink the ricewater,"
"Fight ye, too, (said the Raja)
I
remit half the revenue (from you)."
that are my subjects and
Then Ghila the Chbibbar thought of a plan :
And sent letters (papers) to the ministers and clerks.
50 When the night had passed away, the army collected
in the morning.
The rain was falling and the clouds lowered :
And the Raja's army advanced and the hills became
white (with their clothes).
Then advanced the eighteen Lords* and fifteen thousand
(men) :
And the struggle began at the Desii Dhar ;
55 The fight at the Desu Dhar
Then spoke the follower of Hanuman Gosain.t
"Throw aside bows and arrows here and look to your
clubs."
(With) slaying and slaying the earth and the hollows
became filled
And heads and corpses were piled up into fences.
60 And the Raja (Mahi's) army was cut up like grass.
Then they went through the bushes of the DesA Dhar.
The Raja (Mahi) who had come (sitting) upright in a
palanquin was carried back prostrate.
The Raja came to his senses in the plain of Sainjuni.
"0 thou Mahi, bring here my golden huqa "
65 In the golden huq^a was the offering to Devi.
" Raja, thou dost want the huqa ; I have but brought
my life."
* The 18 thdhurs or barons over whom the Kyonthal Raja ruled,
t Meaning Hanuman, the monkey-god ; the god of warriors.
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