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1885.] G. A. Grierson —Song of Gopi Chand. 
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The substance of the foregoing (it is too easy to need translation) is 
that Gopi Chand went to his mother, who warned him in his journeys 
never to go to Bangal. The king says he has never yet been there, and 
asks what sort of country it is. He has been all over India, Balkh and 
Bukhara, but has never been there. The mother insists on the necessity 
of his avoiding Bangal, for his sister Champa (or Birna as she is called 
in the Bihari versions) lives there, and if she chance to see him wander¬ 
ing as a beggar, she will die of grief. To which he replies, ‘ when 
I went first to be an ascetic, I left sixteen hundred wives behind me, 
and not one of them died. Why then should my sister die ? ’ 
In spite of his mother’s warning Gopi Chand goes to Bangal, and 
calls at the palace of his sister Champa for alms. A maid-servant comes 
out and offers them to him, but he refuses to take them from her, saying 
he will take them from the hand of Champa and of no one else. She 
gets angry at this, whereupon he chides her saying ‘ I bought you and 
gave you to my sister in her dowry, but now that I have become an 
ascetic you do not recognize me.’ The girl then goes and tells Champa, 
who comes out and at first refuses to believe that the beggar is her 
brother. When, however, he proved his identity, by recalling to her 
particulars of her wedding which none but he could know, she became 
