The legends of the Panjâb

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RAJA KASAL&. 31
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Presently RajS. Rasalii and all the company passed before
Hari Chand, and RajS, RasaM said to him,
" Of all this company are there any that belong to you "
And Raja Hari Chand said,
" None of them belong to me."
Then RajS. Ras§,lft took four sticks and made ready for the
marriage of Dohman, the goldsmith, and Rani Saunkhni.
" But," said Raja Hari Chand, '' these two are men how can
you marry them together "
"Indeed!" said Raja Rasalii "this is Dohman, the goldsmith,
and tJiis is the Rani Saunkhni, your daughter "
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At this Raja Hari Chand became very angry, but RaJEi
Rasalu said to him,
" What have you to do with it she is betrothed to me, and
I can do with her what I please."
And so Raja Rasalu married the Rani Saunkhni to Dohman,
the goldsmith, and went back into Hodinagari. Presently he
reached the house of Rani Sundran, and saw an old jogi sitting
by the side of his sacred fire in front of her door.
" Tell me why you are doing this," said RSja Rasalu.
" Two and twenty years have I waited thus to see the Rani
Sundran," said the jogu
" Make me your pupil," said the RSja.
"You can work miracles already," said the jogi, ''what
need of your becoming a faqir "
But the Raja pressed him, and so the jog'i made a pupU of
the Raja, and boring his ears put on the jog s earrings.
At night the jogi went begging, and brought food from four
houses. The food from two houses he ate himself, and the rest
Now when two men eat one
he gave to his pupil. Raja Rasalu.
man's food both starve, but Raja Rasalu being a really holy man
cared nothing for food. The ^o^'J however felt starved. Next
day the jogi went and begged food from four houses, and again
he ate half, and half he gave his pupil, and again he felt starved.
At last he said to his pupil
" my disciple, I made you a pupil that you might beg and
feed me, but I find that I have to starve to feed you,"