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 280 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOLK-LORE.

demon named Sadhii Deo. One day he told the story of the Princess Kamlatan and his dream, whereon the demon allowed him to go -in search of her. On the road he fell in with the minister's son again, and they journeyed on together, and met Dhantar Baid, the miraculous leech, whom they sent to find out Kamlatan. The leech found her, and told her Kamrup's story, and on this the princess told him how she had had an exactly similar dream. So they were happily married in the island of Sarandip (Ceylon), the princess's home.

10. Majmu'a Qisas, a collection of tales, anonymous, no date. Pub- lished at the Nawal Kishor Press, Lucknow: 48 pp. 8vo. It consists of five separate tales.

(a) QissA Shah Rum, Story of the King of Rum, or Asia Minor, in 11 pp. in elegant Urdu verse. It relates the story of a king of Rum who was punished by God for scoffing at the verse in the Quran, which says " Thou (God) magnifiest whom Thou wilt, and whom Thou wilt Thou dost abase," and pardoned after twelve years. •

One day a king of Riim puffed up with his pride of strength and splendour came across the passage in the Qm^dny " Thou. magnifiest whom Thou wilt, and whom Thou wilt Thou dost abase," and laughed at it. Soon afterwards, out hunting, he met a beautiful deer, and he went after it alone. It led him a long way and then vanished, but it had led him into the territory of China (Chin). At that time the people were in search of a robber who had done much mischief, and coming across the king fixed upon him as their enemy, and the Emperor ordered his hands and feet to be cut off. Then he remem- bered the verse in the Quran and repented, whereon God forgave him. After his hands and feet were cut off he was made tutor to the Princess of China on account of his learning, and taught her the Quran. When he reached the same passage he smiled, which made the princess oblige him to explain his story. On learning who he was the Emperor married him to his daughter, and his hands and feet, which had been all this while in charge of Khwaja Khizar, were restored to him. He was then miraculously transported to the spot whence he had dis- appeared twelve years before.