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8. Saith Sallies, “ Hear, O parrot, whose be dull thou hast taken, if 
she pursue thee (and find it here) our fair fame will be destroyed : Let not 
that he so : Haste thee, and take it to the Sal forest.” The parrot went 
to the Sal forest, and sat upon an asoJc tree. The sisters gazed and gazed 
till their hearts broke: four of them turned, and went heart-broken to their 
homes, but Dauna Malin lay there despairing. # When dawn appeared, the 
parrot flew and came to her, and gave her the beduli. “ Take it, O Malin ; 
go thou to Morang, and sit in thy garden, and I will send to thee Sallies.” 
9. Dauna Malin returned to her garden, and at dawn Salhes arrived. 
He travelled the long night through to the garden in the kingdom of 
Morang. As morning arose Salhes arrived in the garden. 
10. Morning came, and the cuckoo sang. Up rose Malin, and taking 
a flower basket, she stood in the garden. She plucked the flowers, and tied 
a necklace for Salhes. At that moment there came a thief from a strange 
country. His name was Chuhar Mai, and his home was in the fort of 
Mokama. At midday he roamed from house to house. He wandered 
through Pakaria, noting houses, but in Pakaria he could not find a house 
worthy of him. He searched and searched, and found the palace of king 
Bhim Sain. Chuhar Mai noted the palace and went away, and rested in the 
jangal two or three Jcos oft. He commenced to meditate on Asavari, his 
family goddess: “ I have worshipped thee in the fort of Mokama from my 
birth up. Throughout my whole life I have never committed a theft, but 
I heard that the young Salhes hath been born in Pakaria. He is a great 
man, and hath undertaken the guardianship as ehaukidar of fourteen Jcos 
in Pakaria. Such fear is there of his prowess that no one’s foot is firm 
to commit a theft in his beat.” 
11. It was hearing this report that Chuhar Mai had come to attack 
Salhes. He tied his pig-tail into a tight knot, and his body-cloth tightly 
round his waist.f On every limb he tied tens of thousands of knives, and 
by his side a shield. First he took a knife in his hand, and sat upon the 
earth. Then he took his position, and lying upon his belly on the ground, 
began to dig a mine ( sendh ). He kept under ground for a distance 
of two or three Jcos , and as he dug he arrived within the kingdom of 
Pakaria. As morning dawned he began to dig into the king’s stronghold, 
and as he dug he broke in at the quiet room in which Queen Hansabati 
was sleeping on a golden bed. It was there that Chuhar Mai the thief 
entered. Close to her head he broke into the room, and Chuhar Mai rested 
against the bed. Trust not the caste of Dusadhs ! He raised his head and 
* A person is saidc^j^llu Kusothari deb , when as a last resource he makes 
a bed of Jcus grass by the side of some sacred spot, and vows not to leave it, till 
his boon is granted by the gods. 
f Two precautions which thieves adopt to prevent their being caught. 
