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(12) O (countrymen), the sons, the sons of Makpoon, three brothers, are having 



their drums beaten beneath that high, green chili tree. 



(13) O (countrymen), Sher Shah, Ail Shah, and Murad, three brothers, have 



conquered Brook and Balim, and the women of the places are weeping. 



(14) O (countrymen), the sons, the sons of Makpoon, three brothers, have con- 



quered Brook and Balim, and the women of the places are weeping. 



(15) O (countrymen), Sher Shah, AH Shah, and Murad, three brothers, have seized 



Brook and Balim and have brought here a number of the girls of these 

 places. 



(16) O (countrymen), the sons, the sons of Makpoon, three brothers, have seized 



Brook and Balim and have brought here a number of the girls of those places. 



(17) O (countrymen), Sher Shah, Ali Shah, and Murad, three brothers, have 



placed a stone in Chitral and have upset the land. 



(18) O (countrymen), the sons, the sons of Makpoon, three brothers, have placed 



a stone in Chitral and have upset the land. 



(19) O (countrymen), Sher Shah, Ali Shah, and Murad, three brothers, have 



defamed the name of Shah Katur (ruler of Chitral) and have distributed 

 many goats. 



(20) O (countrymen), the sons, the sons of Makpoon, three brothers, have defamed 



the name of Shah Katur (ruler of Chitral) and have distributed many goats. 



(21) O (countrymen), Sher Shah, Ali Shah, land Murad, three brothers, have 



halted at Gilgit, and played polo at Yasin. 



(22) O (countrymen), the sons, the sons of Makpoon, three brothers, have halted 



at Gilgit, and played polo at Yasin. 



(23) O (countrymen), Sher Shah, Ali Shah, and Murad, three brothers, have 



broken the iron lock and left the doors open. 



(24) O (countrymen), the sons, the sons of Makpoon, three brothers, have broken 



the iron lock and left the doors opened. 



Trakhan's being Thrown into the River. 

 Tra-Trakhan, an ancient Rii of Gilgit, is said to have married a woman of a wealthy 

 family of Darel. The Ra was very fond of playing polo and used to go to Darel weekly 

 for the purpose of playing his favourite game with the seven brothers of his wife. One 

 game was played on the condition that whichever party lost the game should be murdered. 

 After a long and skilful game the Ra was winner, and according to the conditions of 

 the agreement he executed all his brothers-in-law. The Soni (queen), who was much 

 disturbed on hearing the sad news of her brothers' death, determined to revenge them 

 and mixed arsenic in her husband's food. So he died, and she took the reins of govern- 

 ment into her own hands. After a lapse of a month she gave birth to a son who was 

 named Trakhan ; but, his mother, who was deeply grieved on account of her brothers' 

 fate, did not like to see the son of a murderer, and cruelly locked him up in a wooden 

 box, which she secretly threw into the river. The box is said to have been carried away 

 by the current as far as Hodar, a village in the Chilas District, where it was seen by 

 two brothers of poor means, who were collecting wood on the river bank. Noticing that 



