After crossing the stream she came home and lie down as if a reptile had bitten her.
After crossing the stream she came home and lie down as if a reptile had bitten her.
Soon after Dogar came, but poor girl did not know the secret.(9)
A. year lapsed like this, and after one year, one day came,
When Dogar requested the woman to do him a favour,(10)
‘Please lady do me an errand and get me milk-butter from home.’
Woman said, ‘I will not go because in the dark I get scared.’(11)
Dogar said, ‘I am very much distressed, remember that day,
‘When you had gone across the stream and after washing away your friend came back home.’(22)
‘When you had gone across the stream and after washing away your friend came back home.’(22)
Hearing this she was perturbed that he knew all her secret.
‘Then why not kill him now and declare that some thief had murdered him.’(13)
Dohira
In the house when it was dark, she took the sword out,
To kill her husband she struck fifty times in the dark.(l4)
But, observing the glitter of the sword, he had already hidden himself under a buffalo,
And cheating thus saved himself of any injuries.(15)
She went and swam across the stream where she had washed away her friend.
She could not hurt her husband but she depicted no remorse.(l6)(1)
Thirty-sixth Auspicious Chritars Conversation of the Raja and the Minister, Completed with Benediction.(36)(695)
Dohira
The Minister of the people, after pondering over,
Related the thirty-sixth Chritar with due amends.(1)
That Dogar, very shortly, killed his woman,
By putting a rope around her throat.(2)
He had tied the rope at the rooftop of the hut,
And, himself climbing over the roof, started to shout.(3)
Chaupaee
He called all the people and showed them the injuries on his body,
And then he showed them the body of the woman and cried aloud.(4)
‘When the woman saw my injuries, she became very worried.
‘Pushing me on one side she put rope around her (throat) and headed towards the heavens.(5)
Dohira
‘Wanting to have her calf, the buffalo had hit me,
‘How could 1 explain? It cut me like a sword.(6)
Chaupaee