The legends of the Panjâb

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PBINCESS NIWAI, DA}. 517
Raja jande kunde lagave, ji.
Do char Nagari ke sir tore, ji.
1510 Tel ki karahi men ger de, ji.
Nagan ke zahar cMse, ji.
Jab sab tel men ger die, ji,
Jado Vakil baqi ki fauj ko lekar bhag gaya, ji.
Addhi keli ko lekar bhag gaya, ji.
1615 Dhartmandal ko jake Kaja ko khabar di, ji.
" Raja, tu ne sab faujan marwa di, ji
Ab dhai kuli rah gai, ji."
Bole Raja Janmeji, ji
" Meri Mata, ji,
1520 Pita ka badla nana se lia, ji
Ab main Dhartmandal ko jaun^ ji
The Raja bound them with chains and fetters.
He broke the heads of three or four Nags.
1510 He threw them into the caldron of oil.
He sucked out the poison of the N%s.
Then he put them all into the caldron.
Jado the Ambassador ran off with the remains of the
army.
He escaped with half a family.
1515 And going to Dhartmandal he told the news to the
Raja (Basak).
"Raja (Janmeji,)* thou hast destroyed all the families !
Only two and a half families have remained."
Said Raja .Janmeji
" my mother,
1520 I have taken vengeance for my father
Now will I go to Dhartmandal,
* Sometliiiig is left out here apparently, for the scene abruptly
changes in the midst of a conversation.