The legends of the Panjâb

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eaJa uasalO. 23
'' I did not know that the Eini was a gentlewoman," said
the Eaja, " I am a stranger, and now that I have washed my
clothes I will go away."
And as he got upon his horse he said to the Ejlni, who
began to bathe with all her sixty attendants in the tank
UncM lamM Rdnie, tere tiliar Ices pawant
Das, Tiihdn mujhho wartn thole pant de chalant
Bahan ulardh, IcucTih nangi ; munh se haule dant
Bo jo dissan rukhre, hhole pant de chalant.
Tall and stately Ean}, thy oiled tresses fall about thee.
Say :
what wouldst thou have of me under the pretence
of fetching water
Eaising thy arms thou hast shown thy charms
thou hast
spoken mincingly.
Thy breasts were two that thou didst show under the
pretence of fetching water.
And then he asked his way of Edni Saunkhnl and started off
for Hodinagarj.* Arriving there he found two long bamboos
planted in the ground, and asked the people what they meant,
and they told him that they were planted there by order of
Eaja Eari Chand against the coming of Eaj^ Easalfl, son of
EajS;
Sahilwan of Sialkot, and that this prince would shoot his
arrows at them and strike them, and then marry Eani Saunkhnt,
the daughter of Eaja Hari Chand.
Then Eaja Easalu asked them if any prince had ever hit the
bamboos before, the people said that many Eajas had come,
calling themselves Eaja Easalfi, but had been unable to hit the
bamboos, and had had to go home greatly ashamed of themselves.
When he heard this the Eaja shot an arrow and
struck the bamboos on the top where two golden cups were
placed, and the cups fell off into the bazar. A boy chanced
to pick them up and took them to Eaja Hari Chand, who
asked him who had knocked them ofE the bamboos, bat the
boy replied that he had not seen them knocked off.
* In this instance most likely meant for Rani Throd in the Chittar
Pahar, abutting on the Indus below Atak.