The Mughal was not far off and seeing him
She entrapped the Sheikh in an hessian bag.(7)
Dohira
In the mean time the constables from the City Kotwal, the police station officer, walked in.
She made the Mughal to run to the corn room.(8)
The constables surrounded the house from all sides and seeing no escape she put the house to fire,
And came outside the house and stood there.(9)
She started to lament aloud beating her breast, ‘My house is on fire, my house is burning.’
All the four were burned to death and no one even came across their ashes.(10)(1)
Eighth Parable of Auspicious Chritars Conversation of the Raja and the Minister, Completed with Benediction. (8)(155)
Dohira
A trader’s wife used to live in the city of Lahore.
Her sparkling eyes made even the flowers to blush.(1)
Chaupaee
His name was Jagjyoti Mati.
Known as Jag Jot Mati, there was none equal to her in beauty in the world.
(She had such) impressive beauty
On her sight, the lightening, as well, felt humiliated.(2)
Dohira
Impressed by her figurative beauty, a Raja was pervaded with lust.
With determination, he presented his proposal to make love to her.(3)
She fell in love with the Raja too and through her maid,
Chitarkala, called the Raja to her house.(4)
On the sight of the Raja, Chitarkala herself fell flat on the ground
Cupid, the adversary of Shiva, had pierced her with his arrow of love.(5)
Chaupaee
When she was roused, she said,
‘O my Raja, please make love with me.
‘Your sight has put me in the grip of passion
And I have lost all my senses.’(6)
Dohira
The Raja refused to make love with her. Fuming in rage she brought the Raja with her (to Jag Jog Mati’s house)
But went to the trader and told him that a man was visiting his house in his absence.(7)
Arril
Hearing this he came home immediately and was very much afflicted
Seeing deceitful secret of his wife.
The wife thought, seeing her with the Raja, he (husband) would kill
Him and, thereafter, would finish her as well.(8)
Dohira
She thought, ‘I must do something to save the Raja. I must serve
Dainty food to my husband and send him away.’(9)
She wrapped round the Raja in a hessian sack and made it stand near the wall.
She received her trader husband with great pleasure and cooked lavish food for him.(10)
Arril
He fed Shah a good meal.
She served him dainty viands and asked him to throw a handful of dryfruit towards the sack and said,
(That) put (one) handful of nuts in this mat.
‘You win if it goes straight into the sack, otherwise you lose.(11)