The legends of the Panjâb

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410 liEGBNDS OF THE PANJaB.
(Spake he) " Let me caress and play with my child Kesft.
I will return from the fight after many days."
Odu and Madana went both to Jtinga.
45 Eaja Anftp Sen was sitting in his summer-house :
Odd and Madana said (to him), * hail.'
When he returned the salute the Raja began to ask
(after) them
" OdA and Madana, you must both go to the war."
" my Lord Eaja, thou dost never excuse us
60 Why dost send us both, uncle and nephew, to the
war"
"1 will dig up the (very) bushes from the valley of
Palish."*
Jofl, the Karauk, went (again) to the Ohyonti Hills:
And Jou, the Karauk, called out in the hills.
Then Jou, the Karauk, went into the land of Chaura
55 " The Lord Eaja is coming himself to this war.
He has called every wearer of a silver zonef to Junga."
Then the whole valley of Chauia and Palash came to
J unga.
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Eaj^ Anup Sen was sitting in his summer-house.
To him the host said, ' Eaja, hail !
60 " How has our turn, Eaja, come for service (so soon)
And all the host besought the Eaja.
But the Lord Eaja heard not their petition.
The Lord Eaja used oppression and force.
The Lord (Madana) got ready his army.
65 Then the Lord (Madana) went to Tundalo and Kawali:|
At Tundalo and Kawali the Lord (Madana) called out
thus to his house
" Fasten my buffaloes and oxen inside.'"
From thence my Lord (Madana) went to the Tundalo
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plain.
* In CMel. He means to say that he will impress the whole population.
t I.e., all adult males.
j Villages, a stage from Jilnga.