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SONG OF KITS'G SALITES. 
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from Fort Iveola, from the palace of king Bilim Sain, and from the beat 
of Salhes. This necklace I give thee for a gift.” She replied “Come to 
my tent, and upon that golden bed of thine will I fulfil thy heart’s 
desires.” Front with the golden bed upon his head went Chuhar, and 
behind him the natin , to her tent. 
20. In the meantime Salhes had left, and went to call his brother 
Moti Ram and his nephew Kari Kant, and taking with him seven 
hundred male elephants with small tusks, surrounded the tent with 
them. While he was doing this the natin spread the bed, and making 
Chuhar Mai to lie upon it, applied sweet-oil to his body. By this 
time morning dawned, and Salhes arrived with all his army, and surrounded 
the tent, in which Chuhar Mai was sleeping. His goddess Asavari awoke 
him saying “ For the sake of a woman, thine enemy Salhes hath come.” 
On this he arose and looked around, and, tying his sleeping cloth around 
his waist, stood up. In his hand he took a knife. He gave one jump, and 
flew into the air to a height of fifty or a hundred cubits. Fie fell outside 
the circle of elephants, and began to fight with Salhes. He leaped even 
as a wolf doth into a flock of goats. Wherever he jumped there he slashed 
an elephant. He cut down at once the seven hundred male elephants with 
small tusks. For three days and nights the fight lasted, and then he pursued 
the three brethren in a fallow field. Up rose the Malin, and caught the 
arm of Chuhar Mai. “ I am by profession a dancer, and many are the 
travellers who come to me. If thou fight with them, my earnings will all 
diminish. Cease thine anger; come to the tent, and I will fulfil th}- 
heart’s desires.” Chuhar Mai then returned to the tent and lay upon the 
bed and slept. She put him under the influence of Ahidra the goddess of 
sleep, and called to king Salhes, and Motiram, “ Come and bind your foe.” 
21. When they heard this they came and tied the thief and his booty 
to the bed, and within the seven days, the nat and the natin hastened to the 
bank of the Ganges with him. In the Ganges the seven hundred elephants 
returned to life, and by magic the natin (and her husband) crossed the 
river, and travelling by night, arrived in the day time in Raja Bhim Sain’s 
Kachahari and made over to him the thief with his booty. When he saw 
the thief, the king could not restrain his surprise. Then they unloosed 
Chuhar Mai, and he told the whole story; how he had indeed committed 
the theft, hearing of Salhes’s reputation, and from Salhes’s beat. When 
king Bhim Sain heard this, he was pleased in heart, and gave Salhes a 
complete suit* of clothes, five weapons, and his own special mare ; after 
giving him these presents he allowed him to depart. Thereafter, with 
* TJJlft a turban, a sheet, a dhoti ) a body-cloth, and rfh^ 
a handkerchief. 
