‘Now a beautiful coffin should be arranged for her.
‘And digging deep, a grave should be prepared to bury her.
‘I will never get married again,
‘And would pass life in her remembrance.’ (7)
Dohira
After calling the people and putting a nice coffin around,
This bad-character woman was buried.(8)(1)
Thirty-seventh Parable of Auspicious Chritars Conversation of the Raja and the Minister, Completed with Benediction. (37)(703)
Chaupaee
The minister related the tale of a woman who was very youthful.
She fell in love with a thief and a swindler and let both of them savour her.(1)
She fell in love with a thief and a swindler and let both of them savour her.(1)
The thief would go during the night and the swindler would make money during the day.
The thief would go during the night and the swindler would make money during the day.
Both enjoyed sex with her but the fools did not discern the woman.(2)
The swindler would think the woman was for him and the thief would consider her as his lover.
The woman’s secret was not conceived and those simpletons remained in obscurity.(3)
Chaupaee
She embroidered a handkerchief and both of them admired it.
The swndler thought that it was for him and the thief took it granted that she would give him.(4)
Dohira
‘The woman loved the thief and, therefore, she gave him the handkerchief.
Observing this swindler was deeply hurt.(5)
Chaupaee
Be scuffled with the thief and snatched the handkerchief.
‘The thief had stressed that the woman embroidered that for him, and learning this the swindler flew in a rage.(6)
‘The thief had stressed that the woman embroidered that for him, and learning this the swindler flew in a rage.(6)
Screeching their teeth, they pulled each other’s hair.
Using their legs and fists they thrashed like the beat of the pendulum of the clock.(7)
Using their legs and fists they thrashed like the beat of the pendulum of the clock.(7)
When the fighting ceased, both, full of wrath, came to the woman,
Both, the swindler and the thief shouted, ‘whose woman are you. His or mine?(8)
Dohira
‘Listen, you, the thief and the swindler, I am the woman of one,
‘Who is most clever and who maintains greater intellect by dint of his semen.’(9)
Then she added, ‘Listen carefully what I say,
‘One who wants to call me as his woman must show extraordinary intelligence.’(10)
Chaupaee