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Kavi Raj Sliyamal Das —The Mind tribe of Jdjpnr. [No. 3, 
ground of division of shares, which was followed by a fight, but 
Malaji could not be killed, because Deva Narayan’s benediction was 
upon him. 
However, the secret of his vulnerability was unwittingly made 
known by his wife Bhatyaniji, to the attendant who dressed her hair, and 
she revealed it to her husband, and he in turn to the Baghrawats. 
They accordingly secared the services of a number of Thoris for 
the special purpose of killing Malaji, and ordered them to try to shoot 
him with an arrow of green santhi, wetted with their saliva. 
One day, as Malaji was seated at a window of his house, with one 
leg hanging down, a Thori hit him with an arrow in execution of the 
order of the Baghrawats. 
Immediately, Malaji extended one of his feet to the ridge of the 
eaves and the other to a heap of cowdung cakes, and crying out “ chhiit, 
chhut ” “ fie ! fie !” ascended up to heaven. 
During the night he used to come and visit his wife Bhatyaniji, 
and told her not to make known the fact to anybody. 
One day his mother seeing her widowed daughter-in-law adorning 
herself, asked her the reason; she was obliged to tell her the secret. 
She told her mother-in-law to hide herself among tulsi plants at 
night and behold what passed. She did accordingly; Malaji came 
and passed the night—'but when on the point of departing in the morn¬ 
ing, his mother held him by the hand. He said, if his secret had not 
been thus revealed, a person of better qualifications than himself would 
have been born in the family, and he himself would have assisted the 
members of the family in fight in a tangible shape, but now he would 
come privately, and keep himself in advance of a hero, who would 
see him. 
Moreover, he commanded the family never to use the following 
articles : 
(1) A white cloth ; (2) an ivory bangle ; (3) an indigo-coloured and 
bordered gown having angular bits of cloth sewed on to it, and other 
articles that his wife had on her body at the time. 
Amauwa dye, an arched door, double folding shutters, a heap of cow- 
dung cakes and a gable roof are never made or used by Mothis Minas. 
After this Malaji went to heaven, taking with him his wife, the 
white horse (that had been given to him by Deva Narayan when going 
to Ran), and its groom. 
The horse was white, and that is the reason why the Mothis Minas 
do not mount a white horse. 
Malaji is worshipped on the 9th day of the month, and the Navarni 
of Asarh sudi is the particular day of his worship, when a 
fair is held in his honour at his shrine on mount Rohi in Bhanyla. 
