‘Never try to attempt such trickery ever again and this time I pardon your transgression.’(11)
Dohira
‘Now, woman, you exonerate me as well, because I don’t want to linger on the dispute.’
She was, then, endowed a pension of twenty thousand takaas every six months. (12) (1)
Twenty-third Parable of Auspicious Chritars Conversation of the Raja and the Minister, Completed with Benediction. (23)(460)
Sortha
The father again sent his son to the prison,
And, as soon as it was morning, he called him back.(1)
Chaupaee
The Minister started narration and said, ‘My Raja, listen to another anecdote.
I will tell you another Chritar, which will amuse you -2
In a country up in the North, there lived a Raja who belonged to the revered Sun Clan.
Chandra Mati was his principal Rani who was, as if, churned out of milk pudding (3)
They were blessed with a daughter, who was endowed in their lap by the God Sun, himself.
Her beauty had no bounds she was like the serenity of the Moon.(4)
She was given the name of Sumer Kaur there was none other like her in the world.
Her beauty prevailed all over the three worlds, as she possessed the Moon like virtues (5)
She was so beautiful that, even, the Cupid ran errands for her.
Her charm could not be explained as she appeared to be like a bouquet of flowers.( 6)
Dohira
With the awakening of youth, her appendage reflected through her fair complexion,
Like the snowy waves, which jumped up and down in the sea-water.(7)
Chaupaee
She was married to a southern Raja and she started to enjoy variable carnal pleasures.
She gave birth to two sons and a daughter, who were the epitome of splendour as well.(8)
Soon after that Raja died, the crown of sovereignty was put on the son’s head,
And then whose orders no body could refute and he could do whatever the way he liked.(9)
Long time passed, and the spring season prevailed.
She (the widowed Rani) could not bear without her lover
As her heart was riddled with the arrows of separation.(10)
Dohira
How could she tolerate and contain herself when the arrows of estrangement pinched her?
She talked customarily, but in the heart she was pricked with the for her consort.(11)