The legends of the Panjâb

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PRINCESS NIWAL DAt. 475
Jhar jhapatke baitha kar lia,
Bole Raja Parag, " Rani ; ham to bahot soe, jl \"
Nazar uthake dekhe barh ke Biche baithOj ji,
" Ai Ram Niwal Dai, tii kaisi jangal men M, jl "
840 Boll Rani Niwal Dai, " Raja, tujhe samjli& rahi, ji,
Mahil se mati jao, ji
Mande sadn hAe the, mera kahna na mana, ji,
Jo tu sair shikar ko aya, tujhe Nag ne dasa, ji.
Til to, Raja, mara paia tha, tujhe jharke uthae, ji.
845 Teri M4ta ne ta'na lagdke mahil so k&dhna shara' kia, ji.
Jo til na jita teri mata mahil men mujhenabarne de, ji."
Rani Niwal Dai Raja Parag chalke mahil men he, ji.
ji.
Raja ki mata mahil men ZLi,r-z9,r
roi, ji.
Raja ke gale se lipatkar roi, ji
850 " Jab se Rani ai Nag hamare dashman ho gae, ji.
Having exorcised and charmed she sat him up.
Said Raja Parag, " "
Rani, I have had a heavy sleep !
Lifting up his eyes he saw that he was sitting under
the fig tree :
" Princess
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Niwal Dai, how earnest
forest I"
thou into the
840 Said Princess Niwal Dai, " Raja, I told thee often, (to)
Go not from the palace !
The omen was evil, and thou didst not hear my words.
And when thou wentest a-hunting, the Nag bit thee.
(I found) thee. Raja, lying dead,, and awoke thee by a
charm.
845 Thy mother reproaching me would have turned me out
of the palace.
Hadst thou, not lived thy mother would not have let
enter the palace.^'
Rani Niwal Dai and RSja went into the palace.
The Raja's mother was weeping bitterly in the palace.
Falling on the Raja's neck she wept : (saying),
850 " From the day the Princess came the Nags have been
our enemies.
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