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W. Hoey— Set Majiet. 
5 . 
And next lie summoned his mahaut 
And usages explained : 
The driver went at once to where 
The elephant was chained ; 
Saluted first the royal beast, 
Rubbed ochre on his head, 
Then a red housing bound with fringe 
Upon his back he spread. 
6 . 
To Bhairon then and Hanuman 
And Harsingh he appealed,* 
And then of stout rhinoceros hide 
He took a studded shield 
With burnished boss, which fast across 
His giant head he tied. 
Then roared that elephant and shook 
The walls on every side. 
7 . 
How, Lalla, with due caution speak : 
Such elephant ’twould need 
With driver bloated and obese, 
Twelve villages to feed. 
A sword he gave that elephant 
Within his trunk to hold : 
At which he grew intoxicate 
With warlike fury bold. 
8 . 
When sleep o’ercame the elephant— 
How hear the tale I tell— 
Shah Mardan bore him in a dream 
Down to the gate of hell. 
While here he stood, a scorching blast 
Of flame upon him blew, 
And upward to the golden gate 
Of Paradise he flew. 
poet has with very strained poetic license confounded or brought together widely 
distant places and probably he and the author of the Saulat-i-Mas‘udi have com¬ 
pressed a campaign into one fight. 
* This points to Suhil Deo’s being a Hindu, but see v. ii. 
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