1919.] Bardic and Histl. Survey of Rajputana. 45 
(Translation :) [Afterwards rava Mala De] on the one side 
despatched an army over Virama,' and on the other side 
despatched Kupo and Jéto [with another arm y| over Jéta St. 
-Thereupon our? rava Jéta Si also assembled an army and 
went to meet [the invaders] at the village of Sohavo. Par- 
leys were een there [and the enemy envoys said to 
Jéta Si]: “Go to Mala De and bow your nose.” At that time 
all the nobles [of Bikaner] were present, and they approy ed of 
[the conditions.] But Jéta Si [noticing that] Mahesa, a Sakhald 
who had a fief of twelve villages, was silent, asked him: 
‘‘Why do you not speak ?”—*“ Aren’t your Rathora kinsmen 
speaking enough 2”? was the reply. [Jéta Si]insisted: “ Speak 
you too.” Then the man said: ‘If we do such a thing, our 
‘gamete [with Jodhpur] will go by the board, while on the 
contrary being killed on the field is honourable.” The latter 
advice appealed to Jéta Si, but did not eee to the nobles. 
i n the envoys [returning to the] enemy camp, reported 
o Kupo and Jété that a Sakhalo had pnseied any talk [of 
nara an Thereupon [the two leaders] sent for Mahesa 
and asked him: ‘ Why dost thou try to ruin the Rathoras ?”’ 
And he [merely] GAid > oS tt have caused them to] give a digni- 
fied reply [to your proposals].’’ 
Afterwards [they] engaged in battle. The nobles of Jéta 
Si bolted, but he [remained and] was killed on the field, and 
together ‘with him others from his retinue were also killed. 
en Jétd and Kipo went [to count the fallen] on the battle- 
field, they [began i to] talk [between themselves]: ‘‘ Methinks it 
looks as if the S&khalé had bolted. Ni ice indeed! after all the 
proud language he was talking! [Now be sure that} if the 
Sakhalo is [lying] anywhere, he is lying on the field of battle 
Sakhal6! thou moanest! do thy wounds cause thee much 
pain?’ And he replied: ‘No, sirs, it is not my wounds 
that cause me pain, but because inferior men have killed the 
great Rava, I am [thus] moaning.” Thereupon they said: 
“Our Sakhald son® [still] speaks the very same language. 
' Rava of Merato. ? Text: uz ** here.” 
8 A low form of abuse very common in Marwar, indirectly falling 
on the mother of the person reviled. 
