The legends of the Panjâb

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394 LEGENDS OF THE PANJIB.
Yesterday thou didst graze my buffaloes, to-day tiou
dost desire my life.
135 Speak of what happened in the midst of the famine,
thou Dubi
(When) I fed thee, thou Dftbi, with curds and pumpkins'^."
Half the army of HemS, Chand (reached the)
Court of
Sohini.
Hema set fire to the fence at Sohini :
And the struggle commenced in the plain of SohinJ.
140 Syama's sons came out roaring like lions.
Thus spake Syama of Sohiiu:
"I tell you my sons, I reared you for this day."
['' May thy bad lame leg burn, Jaiyaf."
Jaiya took up his club and broke down half the housewall]
145 The sons of Syama came running to the plain :
And the struggle commenced in the midst of the SohiuJ
plain.
The exchange of the arrows was like the chaff from barley
And the swords in exchange flashed like lightning
And the guns in exchange thundered like the clouds. J
150 la the plain the army could not be counted.
Hema wrote a letter and sent it to N&han.
" Our fortune is destroyed, Eaja, and our luck is gone.
Half the army Syama has cut up and half the fire
burnt up.
" Hema, the grass of the pasture is always cut.
155 Come here to Nahan and save thy life."
Hema Chand retreated back to Kahan.
The Eaja of Nahan contrived a plan.
JamnA and Syama were brothers-in-law.
* Al cucurhiia maxima: see Stewart, Panjdb Plants, p. 97.
t The two lilies in brackets relate an incidental quaiTel between Syiaia
and his brother.
t This description seems to be conventional.
5 Lit, were sister's husband and wife's brother (to eaoh other).