Chaupaee
Then she took it (the parrot) out and sat it on her hand but, escaping her looks, it flew away,
And went to Rasaloo and told, ‘A thief had come to your house.’(51)
Learning this Rasaloo walked fast and reached the palace immediately.
When Kokila learnt this, she wrapped around (the other Raja) a mat and hid him away.(52)
‘Why is your face getting pale, as if god Rahu has squeezed light out of Moon?
‘Where has gone the pinkish sparkle of your eyes? Why is your bedding become slack?’(53)
Dohira
(She replied) Since the time you went out on hunting, I have been living in adversity.
‘I have been rolling around like an injured person.(54)
Chaupaee
‘Such a wind blew that slipped my mattress out and put in me an urge for love-making.
‘I whirl around like an injured baby of a deer.(55)
‘My pearly necklace is broken. The Moonlit night is destroyed by the Sun rays.
‘Without making love 1 am distressed and, consequently, my bed is slackened.(56)
Dohira
‘Seeing you, now, all my anxiety has diminished,
‘And I am beholding you the way the bird chakvi gets absorbed in the Moon.’(57)
Chaupaee
Thus Rani cajoled Raja with domestic sweet-talk,
And then said, ‘Listen to me my Raja,(58)
‘We both will eat the sultanas and then throw them towards the mat.
‘We both will aim at the centre and one who hits the edge will lose.’(59)
Dohira
Deciding upon this, they took sultanas.
Raja was very intelligent and he had envisaged the secret,(60)
Chaupaee
And he said, ‘Listen, my beloved Kokila Rani,
‘I have just defeated a deer and, dreaded, it is hiding in the bushes.’(61)
When Raja told her this, she accepted that Raja was really talking about the deer.