The legends of the Panjâb

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Our fate has come, we shall now be destroyed !
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Make some plan at once for our relief.
When the giants heard this they went to a giant who was
an astrologer, and said to him, " Look in your almanac and
see if Raja RasaM has been born- into the world yet.'' And
when he answered that the Rsbja was born, they began to be
very frightened and to run away in all directions. Meanwhile
the great Raja Ras&.lfl came up to where the giants were all
collected together, and they said to him
" Who are you and why have you come to disturb us all V
Then said he, "I am Raja Rasalft, son of RSja Salbahan,
and the enemy of the giants."
And one of the giants answered him, "I have eaten many
Rasalus like you."
Aisd nidruh gurjand, Tchad TiTiad harun ehde
Aisd situn wdhelte^ jithe pawen jde.
I will so strike thee with my mace that I will tear
pieces.
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I will so throw and hurl it that thou shalt be thrown down.
After this the giants said to Raja Rasalu that the proper
signs of Raja Rasaln are these:—His heel-ropes will bind us
and his sword cat us up of its own accord. Then Raja
Rasalu at once loosed the heel-ropes from his horse and dropped
his sword out of his hand, and the heel-ropes bound the giants
atnd the sword cut them in pieces.
But the giants said, " The other sign of Raja Rasalu is this :
His arrow will pierce seven frying-pans placed together one
behind the other." And saying this they put seven fryingpans
one behind the other, and behind these they put seven
giants, who were own brothers, one behind the other. Raja
Rasalu shot an arrow from his bow which pierced the seven,
frying-pans and the seven giants a& well, and then he went up
to them and cut oS their heads.
The giantess, their sister, however, escaped, and ran away
* Lit. What was to be seen has been seen : we shall now go east and
west.