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A Grammar of the GhhattisgarM dialect. Ill 
ai> equal pair. I, Prince Dliola, came and recognised you in your 
own house.” Then liewa Malin, seeing the beautiful Prince, said 
as follows ; — 
“ Where art thou going and art come, 0 Raja. What great 
work hath fallen (to thy lot) ? 5 
Tell me at once. My youthful Dhola, quickly explain. 
Ah ! the fair Prince Dhola.” 
That is to say, — “ Ah, fair Prince Dhola, whither art thou 
going ? whence art thou come ? what great work hath fallen to 
thy lot ? Tell me that, 0 youthful Dhola.” Then Prince Dhola 10 
replied, “ I am come here into this your house, to you alone.” 
When they heard so much, then Rewa and Parewa both seated the 
Prince down in comfort, and gave him tobacco to drink (smoke), 
and betel to eat. While he was drinking the tobacco and eating 
the betel, the two sisters scattered over him yellow rice and cast 15 
this spell over him, “ Let Prince Dhola live happily with us 
alone, night and day, and let him never go anywhere from our 
house.” This was because the sisters were entranced, when they 
saw his beauty, and hence they threw their enchantments over him. 
Then they held a sweet converse with him, and charmingly did 20 
they question and answer, and then they applied ointment and 
sandal to him, bathed and washed him, and gave him fine food to 
eat and drink. Prince Dhola also became entranced, when he saw 
Rewa Malin, and began to stay on there. So when night fell the 
two sisters laid him in a fine bed with coverings. As ho lived on 25 
there, the mutual love and affection of Prince Dhola and Rewa 
Malin increased every day, and D hold’s younger sister-in-law, 
Parewa, as she saw how they came together, lived there in happi- 
ness. In this way twelve years passed over piiold’s (head) in 
the land of Port Pingala, in Revva’s house, and then one day Prince 30 
Dhola remembered his own home and said as follows, — 
Twelve years ago I left my house, and no longer is my heart happy. 
I Prince Dhola am grieved, am grieved ; for now memory of my 
home (lit. house and doorway) cometh to me. 35 
I brought ye a bodice from Fort Naranl, a bodice laced with silk ; 
Now the bodice of Rewa and Parewa is worn out, and (no longer) 
is my heart happy.” 
That is to say : — “ Ah, Rewa Malin, from my own country of Fort 
Naraul I brought you each a silk-laced bodice, and it also is worn out. 
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