130 On the Ballads and Legends of the Punjab. [No. 2. 



From Mungla's* (14<) cliff Vidusta'sf flood clear'd at one giant bound : 

 Dhangulli'sJ (15) vast ravine and rock his footsteps' thunder bore, 

 And echoes wild reverb and mock the crash in one long roar. 

 Thither for refuge had he fled, but each dire echo there 

 Renews the giant's frantic dread, inflames his wild despair. 

 O'er Potowarr' s§ ravine-worn waste, by Maunkyala grey 

 The monster bounds in frantic haste, Earth crouches in dismay. 

 Swift thro' Margulla's|| (16) strait he shot. Hurroh purl'd bright 



and clear 

 And rose, heav'n's purpled sheen to blot, thy splinter' d ridge (17) 



Gundgurh, 

 Long-back'd, dark-hued, high-crested, lone, it seems to mortal scan 

 By spell of age transform' d to stone, some huge Leviathan. 

 And Tera joy'd as he beheld, the stronghold of his race, 

 "Whose crags inviolate, yet may yield, a safe abiding place. 

 He nears the base, ten active bounds,^" Pir-t'han receives his tread 

 Each wizard glen, each cave resounds and quails the mountain head. 

 Prom crest to base was felt the shock, blue Aba Sinde the roar, 

 Erom each time wrinkled cave and rock in thunders thrice told o'er ; 

 And mortals trembled far and near, for well that sound was known, 

 The monstrous Rakuss, name of fear, scaling his blood drench' d 



throne. 



Meanwhile doubt shook each giant's mind. The son of king 

 Sahlbyne, 

 They knew by fate's stern will design'd to close their mighty line. 

 And they had turn'd their backs in flight, but that Beera's voice 



* Mungla, Mars. A celebrated castle upon a cliff on the eastern brink of the 

 Jelum, where it emerges from the mountain. 



f Vidusta T8acr7T7js, at present called the Jelum. 



X Dhahngulli, the deserted site of the palace and capital of a branch of the 

 royal family of Gukkur. 



§ Potowarr is the table-land between the Indus and Jelum, bounded north by the 

 roots of the Huzara, Khaunpoor and Sutti mountains and south by the scarp of the 

 salt range. This is the ancient limit. 



|| Margulla, the pass of that name from Potowarr into Qatur. 



% The highest crest of Gundgurh, about 4,500 feet above the sea, is of limestone. 



