15. The Bardic Chronicles. 
By MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA HaRAPRASAD SHASTRI. 
As a specimen of the sort of literature to be found in Raj- 
putana, I give the following verse :— 
Setni hasyo set ayo 
Brahman hasyo gay dhan payo; 
Tu keti hasyo bhikhda bhikhi 
Ik kala maya idki sikhi. 
The Brahman started back for home, and as luck would have 
it, it was evening when he reached the village on the Banas. 
It was a small stream there, which he easily leaped over. A 
public woman was cleansing her plates. She thought this man 
had scarcely said his evening prayers when a man came from 
the banker’s son offering her fifty rupees for the night; she 
declined it, saying she had a Brahman for her guest and cannot 
leave her house that night. The Brahman was so much 
pleased with her conduct that he thought within himself, ‘‘ how 
was it that I was warned against the roguery of this village, 
where women, so low as this, are so hospitable ? *’ 
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Brahman had just lit the fire for the purpose of cooking, when. 
