‘Slim and tall like a cypress tree, who are you?(26)
‘Are you either a Soul or a Fairy?
‘Are you either the moon in the sky or sun over the earth?’(27)
(She replied), ‘Neither I am Fairy, nor an Enlightener of the world.
‘I am the daughter of the King of Zablistan.’(28)
Then, on learning (that he was god Shiva), she supplicated,
Opened her mouth, and narrated (her story) very gently.(29)
(Shiva said), ‘I am much afflicted on seeing you.
‘Whatever you desire I will grant you.’(30)
(She said), ‘I should get out of the old age and become young again,
‘So that I can go to the country of my lover.‘(31)
(Shiva said), ‘If you think this appropriate according to your intelligence (then I will grant you the boon),
‘Although it may have come in your mind very menially.’(32)
After receiving the boon, she came to the well,
Where her lover used to come for hunting.(33)
Next day she came across the hunter,
Who had sharp features like the sparrow-hawk in the spring.(34)
On seeing him, she started to run forward like a wild cow.
And he galloped his horse at the speed of an arrow.(35)
They went quite far,
Where there was no water and no food, and they were lost in themselves.(36)
She proceeded and bodily joined that young-man,
As there was none other like him, neither soul nor body.(37)
Immediately on her sight, he had fallen in love with her,
And lost his senses and consciousness (by meeting her).(38)
(He said,) ‘I swear by God that I must do (make love) with you,
‘Because I cherish you more than my own life.’(39)
The woman, just to show off, refused a few times,
But, at the end she acquiesced.(40)
(The Poet says,) Look at the infidelity of the world,
Siavash (sons of the ruler) were annihilated without any vestiges.(41)
Where have gone the Kings, Khusro and Jamshed?
Where are Adam and Muhammad?(42)
Where have vanished the (legendary) kings, Faraid, Bahmin and Asfand?
Neither Darab, nor Dara are esteemed.(43)
What happened to Alexander and Sher Shah?
None of them has survived.(44)
How Temur Shah and Babar have dissipated?
Where did Hamayun and Akbar had gone?(45)
(The poet says) ‘Oh! Saki. Give me the reddish wine of Europe.
‘Which I would relish when I brandish the sword during the war.(46)
‘Give it to me so that I could contemplate,
‘And with the sword annihilate (the evil forces).’(47)(8)
The Lord is One and the Victory is of the True Guru.
He is absolute, divine, eminent, and compassionate.
The destiny-prevailer, the sustainer, the eliminator of bondage and considerate.(1)
To the devotees, He has endowed the earth, the sky.
The temporal world and the heavens.(2)