When the arrow hit him, he became furious, chased his horse, and killed him (the emissary).
Being badly hurt, he breathed his last and went to the heaven.(35)
Dohira
After slaying, the Raja himself fell flat on the ground.
The servants ran forward and took him in their laps.(36)
Chaupaee
Losing the Raja, servants felt like a wealthy-man becoming a pauper.
(They thought,) ‘After losing Raja, how can we go home and how
shall we show our faces to the Rani?’(37)
Then they heard celestial utterance, ‘Where have you people lost your wits,
‘When a brave person passes away in a battle, who takes his body away?(38)
Dohira
‘Making hIs grave there, you bury him,
‘And take home his clothes and inform the people there.’(39)
After listening to this command from the heaven, they buried him there,
And taking his flying-horse and clothes, they conveyed the message to his wife (Sassi Kala).(40)
Chaupaee
Where the damsel was sitting with her friends in his remembrance,
There came the servants and conveyed the message and she nearly fainted.( 41)
Dohira
She travelled in a palanquin to the place where her lover had died.
‘Either I will bring my husband back or I will renounce my soul there,’ she determined.(42)
Chaupaee
Travelling and travelling, the destitute reached there where her companion was buried.
She was taken aback on seeing the grave, and fully engrossed in his imagination, breathed her lost.(43)
Dohira
Everyone is going to parish, bUt that death is worthwhile,
Which, in no time, is sacrificed in the memory of the loved one.( 44)
By burying your body you make your limbs to meet his limbs,
And then the soul meets the soul, relinquishing everything else.( 45)
The way the wind amalgamates in the wind, fire blends into fire,
And through water they all intermingle and become one.(46)
Chaupaee
For sake of her consort, she abandoned her body and the gods took her to the heaven.
Lord Indra received her honourably and offered her half of her sovereign ty.(47)
Dohira
The gods and goddesses put her in a palanquin,