1890.] A Grammar of the ChhattisgarM dialect. 149 
But here (at Pingala) what happened ? As soon as the parrot 
was gone, Dhola began to consider how he could escape therefrom. 
Now a friend of his, who was there, gave him good advice, and on 
his advice what did Dhola do, but ho sat down to play at dice with 
Rewa, and as he played ho gave Rowa a roll of drugged betel to eat. 5 
She became intoxicated, so that her memory left her. Parewa was 
then in the garden and Pi-inoo Dhola suddenly called for a camel, and 
mounting on it fled from that place, and urged the camel into a 
gallop. In the meantime Parewa saw this, and showed it to Rewa, 
who had come to her senses again, and the two sisters began to run 10 
after the camel but could not reach it. As they went, they came to 
a river, and Dhola forced his camel into it, and Rewa and Parewa 
also followed and seized the camel by the tail. Then Dhola quickly 
cut off its tail, and urged his camel on. When the tail was cut off, 
Rewa and Parewa’s (hold on the camel) was loosened, and they began 15 
to float away in the river, and floating floating they came to the bank, 
and returned disheartened to their own house. There lived they 
plunged in sorrow. On the other hand Prince Dhola went on and 
arrived at Fort Naraul in his land, and, in his own house, met Prin- 
cess Marti. Then each told the other his story, and after an 20 
excellent talk began to eat and drink, and to pass their time in hap- 
piness. 
The Story op CnAND^f.* 
There was a man named Bawan-Bir, a great hero, wise, and of a 
very stout heart. For six months he lay asleep devoid of sense and 25 
feeling, performing austerities, and so soirnd was his trance that no 
matter how much you beat him or struck liim, he never even rose. 
His name people even mention as a saying ; — “ Baw.an had a blister 
on his leg, and (he did not notice that) nine hundred scorpions hid 
in it — for such a man indeed ho was. His wife named Chanda 30 
was very beautiful and used to live in a high palace well watched 
and guarded. Once on a time what should happen but Baw'an Bir 
was lying in his trance, and Cliarida saw a washerman of the village 
named Lori, and fell iu love with him. Subsequently, bringing 
into use panders and bawds, they also had meetings, but it so hap- 35 
pened that this never took place iu any one’s house. Only out iu 
the open, here and there did they sometimes meet and commu- 
nicate with each other by the aid of panders and bawds. 
* This is ail episode in tho Cr.aya epic cycle of Lorik, whicli will be found de- 
scribed in Rep. Arch. Sure, hid., VIH, pp. 79 and ff. In the original version Cband 
or Chaudaini’s husband is named Siodhar, not Bawan Bir, and the hero Lorik, not 
Lori, was a cowherd, not a washerman by caste. Tho epic is sung by men of the 
godld caste. G. A. G. 
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