ICO Extracts from the Persian History of Sindh, [Feb. 



tanks, and other springs in the country, have been parched up. Su'si', 

 in commemoration of the goodness of God in thus miraculously affording 

 her assistance, planted a sprig of the tree from which henna is procured, 

 on the edge of the spring. The tree is to be seen there at the present 

 day. 



Proceeding onwards towards the hills, she was again distressed with 

 fatigue and [thirst, in which situation a shepherd observing her, and 

 being struck with her extreme beauty, advanced for the purpose of 

 offering her violence; by entreaty however, she prevailed over him 

 sufficiently, to induce him to desist from his evil designs, until he 

 had first satisfied the thirst with which she was tormented. Whilst 

 the shepherd returned to procure her some milk, Su'si' prayed 

 to the almighty to release her from her manifold calamities ; her sup- 

 plications were answered, the hill whereon she stood opened, and she 

 entered the fissure which closed after her, leaving only the edge of her 

 garment visible, as a proof to the rest of mankind of the power of God, 

 and to direct her husband Panu'n, to the spot. When the shepherd 

 returned, and saw what had happened, he reproached himself bitterly as 

 the cause of the calamity, and piled a few stones together in the shape 

 of a tomb, as a memorial of his grief. In the mean time, Panu'n 

 continued inconsolable at the separation from his beloved wife, and his 

 father seeing that he was determined rather to die than live without her, 

 became apprehensive for his life, and dispatched him in charge of his 

 brothers, to seek Su'si'. When they arrived at the spot in the hills, 

 and were informed by the shepherd of the circumstances attending 

 Su'si ''s death, they were overcome with fear and astonishment. 

 Panu'n, under pretence of paying his devotions at the tomb of his 

 wife, withdrew from his brothers, when he supplicated the almighty to 

 join him in death with his beloved Su'si'; the earth again opened, and 

 he was swallowed up also. The brothers returned to their father, and 

 reported what had occurred. This is a story well known in Sindh, and 

 Mi'R Masu'n Bakerte, the author of the 2nd Chach JVameh, 

 has composed some verses upon it, under the title of Hassan and Naz*. 



3. It is related, that during the reign of a king of Cutch named 

 Lakeh, there lived a jogi who was wonderfully skilled in the various 

 properties of herbs, and who had for years been occupied in searching 

 for a peculiar kind of grass, the roots of which, if burnt and a man 



* Notp,.— There can be little doubt, that this, as well as the succeeding legends, 

 relative to the destruction of the cities Alor and Brahmanabad, have their 

 eriyin in some convulsion of nature. 





