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camel was spared, and he sent on that a man to inform Dedo he 

 was taking the camels away and was ready to meet him if he 

 meant to come to the rescue. Then he conveyed the Thoris, the 

 camels, and himself to the other shore and left for Sodaro,' the 

 village of Gogo. Dedo went to find Mirja, who advised him 

 never to attempt to recover the camels from such a hero as 

 Pabu was, and so he gave up every hope of revenge and took 

 his way back to his domains. 



Now the way from Pancanada to Sodaro was through 

 Umarakota. On passing through the last place, Pabu was seen 

 by the virgin daughter of the Sodho ruler of the place, her 

 name Phulavantf, who immediately fell in love with him and 

 told her parents she had made a vow to get married to Pabu 

 or nobody else. The father of the girl approved of her resolu- 

 tion _and sent a man to offer his daughter in marriage to 

 Pabu. Pabu accepted, but said he could not stop just then, 

 but would come to marry after making over to Gogo the camels 

 of Dedo. And continued on his way. When he reached 

 Sodaro and brought the camels before Gogo, Gogo praised him, 

 but a doubt arose in his mind, that those might not be the 

 camels of Dedo, but camels wrested from somebody else. He 

 therefore resolved to have a trial made and see if Pabu had 

 really such a power as seemed to be necessary for the carrying 

 out of a similar feat. He told him : " I have some wrong to 

 revenge on a personal enemy of mine. Let us go to-morrow 

 and take the auspices." Accordingly, the next morning, they 

 both went into the desert, but had no auspices They lay 

 down under a tree to sleep, leaving their horses to graze. 

 When they woke up in the afternoon, Gogo said : " Let us go 

 home." Pabu went to fetch the horses, but found that both 

 had their legs shackled with serpents. He understood it was a 

 trick played him by Gogo, but kept quiet and came back say- 

 ing he had not been able to find the horses. Then Gogo went 

 for them, and what did he see but a large lake, with a small 

 boat in the middle, and both the horses in it. Then he under- 

 stood what the power of Pabu was, and went back to him, and 

 this time both the heroes went for the horses and found them 

 still grazing where they had left them. 



On reaching Kolu. Pabu_ received the marriage invitation 

 from the Sodho chief of Umarakota. Then he called his 

 relatives Jinda Rava, Gogo, Buro, and the rava of SIrohl to 

 come and join his marriage procession. The Thorl Cadiyo in 

 chose very days was celebrating the marriage of his seven 

 daughters, and so Pabu exempted him from accompanying him. 

 He took with him Devij 7 6 instead. On the road, the procession 

 met with sinister omens, whereupon all deserted Pabu and 

 turned back, to the exception of Deviyo. Pabu, however, 



reached Umarakota safely and married the girl and brought her 

 to Kolu. 



