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 SEPT. 6, 1872.]

THE PRITHIRAJA RASAU.

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 * “In the neighbourhood of Yoginipur,” on the

Śiva. “May the fragments of my

banks of the river, I have come and drunk water, I am called Dhundha and Bisalnripati. By a curse

a hundred and eight men upon earth.” Thus his body being burned with fire, his splen dour (jyotſ, soul) went to Devasthān. Amidst the Apsarasas he began to sing. Thus obtain ing the restoration of his body, he took birth upon the earth : that matter says Kavi Chand relating I will describe. To the cave of Nigambodh, the daughter of Anang Pāla and her maidens again having gone, found there an image of stone, which they wash ed with water and worshipped with pure souls, with sandal, incense, and lamps, with pure bodies. Bisal gave a boon, “you shall give birth to a

I have assumed a Daitya's body. To abandon it and to behold Gangă I am desirous, to wash away my sins, and again to rule in Ajaypur.f O Rishi Rājaſ going to Gangă I will destroy this body with my sword. Will my release be thus effected ? O Rāja Rishi ! instruct me that I may accomplish it.” The Rishi smiling said, “Without penance royalty cannot be obtained. Food, wealth, wife, and children, all the happiness of the world, may be obtained by penance.” The Rákshasa, receiv ing this instruction, began to call Hari to mind. In the Rishi cave he continued performing austerity. The Rishi went away to a tirtha, saying—“Until I return, having visited all tirthas, do you remain here penance-performing.” The demon, performing penance, continued for three hundred and eighty years. His body began to be without pain in consequence of meditating on Vishnu. At this time Anang of -

the race of the Pāndavs ruled at Hastinapur. On the banks of the Yamunā he founded a city

Anang Pál Tuar founded there Dilli. The King, the subjects, men and women, dwelt there, all of them in peace. Anang Pál Tuar Narind the virtuous King : his daughter was very beautiful, eight years of age, with her companions, chaste and full of good qualities like Sità, she came in Shrāwan and Bhadrapadi to worship Gauri. At Nigambodh on the banks of Kãlindi (Yamund) they all went to worship the Gauri. At that time the rain fell with great yiolence, the maidens began to be wet. Anang Pāl's daughter, with five hundred maidens and a daughter of a Purohit, went all together to bathe on Yamunā’s banks. They entered the cave

body become

great warrior, with whom no man shall be able

to fight, also to a Bhat powerful in tongue. From the boon granted by Dhundha Narind, and his having cut his body into fragments at Kási, from his tongue sprung a Bhat, twenty Kshatris were born at Ajmer, of whom one was Someşvara, whose son was Prithirāja ; the others arose in other places. Nidar arose in Kanoj, Jait and Salakh in Abugarh ; in Kangur

Mandovar the Parihār; in Karaki

Håhuli ; in Nagor Balibhadra; Chand arose in Lahor; $ in Dilli Atatāya: in other places sixteen Samants.

At Jhalor, Rāma Deva:

at Govindgarh, Dham : [the Dahima arose at

Biyana.] In Prithirāja's service, they all re mained.

[The birth and dwelling of the nobles, Chand sings sweetly in the Padhari metre]:—In Jesal mer, dwells Achaleša like the sun; Pajun dwells in Chittod ; Hari Sing arose in Gaſ!

Bayāna; in Kalikand arose Jangār Bhim; in Samiyangarh, Narsing Rāi. Jangār Bhim who dwelt in Junágarh and fought many days with Bhim who was wounded; Sārang Rāi rose, the

Mori King; Bärad-Rai, who dwelt in Asirgarh and fought with Kanhai Rai the Chahuvân warrior—the servant of Prithirāja. Tejpal of

where Dhundhá was performing penance, look ing the image of death. All of them worshipped him. He enquired of them who they were, and for what purpose they had come. They an swered—“We seek as a boon from you that we may all have good warriors for our husbands, and may dwell in one place.” The Dānava Rāja made them this promise; and rising in the air he flew towards Käsi; he reached the banks of

very powerful warrior, who did obeisance to the Chahuvān; Bhobă Chandel of Gajni, who, when wounded, was protected by a Samant,

Gangă to perform sacrifice. Of his body making

to Bhoba Chandel a country by the sea road.

the Dor race lived at Junaur ; Kaimás, a

and who afterwards did good service here. When Arsi Chandel was slain, the royalty

was given to Bhobă. The Rāja of Dilli gave

a hundred and eight fragments, he offered them

With the Rāja of Kanoj fighting, he kept his

He asked for a boon from

name in the Kalyug. On the throne of the

in burnt sacrifice.


 * An old name of Delhi.

pad—a month.

t Ajmer, the old name of which is Ajayameru.-J. B. f That is the last half of Shrawan and first of Bhadra

§ This is the poet himself, ‘and this passage is usually quoted to prove that he was a native of Lahor—J. B.

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