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That is to say, “ 0 damsels busking rice, on your pestles flowers 
are tied. I am the fair Prince DhoM, show me in what direction is 
Eewa Malin’s house.” Then the seven sisters, as they saw him, 
became entranced with his beauty, gave him a stool to sit himself 
upon, and giving him a vessel of tobacco for smoking, said, “ This 
sister of us seven is Rowa Malin,” and thereat they pointed out 5 
one of themselves. But Prince Dhola did not believe their words, 
and went away saying as follows — 
“ I pass through the lanes, I pass through the byeways, I pass 
through the great market places. 
I pass through the houses of the Koshtas (weaver caste), and I 10 
look in at the windows. 
Ah, I am the fair Prince Dhola.” 
Again he went along the road and met some village lads play- 
ing together. Then he asked them, — 
“ Lads of the house, play in the house, but hear, lads, my words. 1 5 
I will give ye treacle and parched rice, tell me the Malin’s house. 
Ah, I am the fair Prince Dhola.” 
That is to say ; — “ Lads playing in the house, I will give you 
treacle and parched rice, show me in what direction is Rewa Malin’s 
house.” Then the lads tempted by the treacle and parched rice 20 
showed him the way to Fort Pingala. So Prince Dhola gave them 
the dainties and started on his way, and as ho went arrived at where 
in the land of Fort Pingala the two sisters Rewa and Parewa 
dwelt in the garden of a seven-storied palace. Now the beauty of 
Rewa was extreme, and Prince Dhola stood in the doorway of her 25 
house, and said as follows : — 
“ I open one door, I open a second, I open a third, I open a 
fourth, I open a fifth, I open a sixth, I open a seventh. 
Ah, 1 am the fair Prince Dhola.” 
With these words Dhola opened the doors with his own hand, 30 
and in the inner court sat himself down on a Tul’si platform. 
Then the two lovely sisters Rewa and Parewa issued forth, and 
phola addressed them as follows : — 
“ Rewa and Parewa, the two sisters, are a match. 
I, the youthful Dhola, am come, and in the house did I 35 
weigh them. 
Ah 1 I am the fair Prince Dhola. 
That is to say ; “ Ah ! Rewa and Parewa, both ye sisters are 
