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they left him to die.'* But the life of Paran was tunately only mentions 6 of them by name, vis., miraculously preserved, and about two years Båland, Púran, Risálů, Dharamgadh, Rupa and afterwards the great magician, Gorakhnath, Sundar. The Sindhá dwaliâs say that them came to the place with his 12,000 disciples. selves and the Bhattis (!) are descended from One of these, drawing water from the well, saw Päran, who, of course, is the great hero, Puran the boy, and having taken him out, carried him Bhagat. Going down through Båland five to the magician, who by enchantments replaced generations we come to one Jaudhar, from his hands. Gorakhnath then brought Puran to whom the great (some of them roling) families the palace and restored to sight Ichhran, who of Pattiala, Nábhå, Jhind, Malaudh, Bhadaur, had become blind with weeping for the an. Faridkot, Kaithal and Attari claim a common timely fate of her son. Raja Salvahan, con- descent." They are all, however, beyond ques. founded by these prodigies, wished to resigntion Siddhû Jatt Sikhs, who were successful in the crown to his son, but Púran would not the struggle for power about 100 years ago. accept the offer, and renouncing the world In a footnote to p. 12 Griffin gives a local became a disciple of Gorakhnath, with whom account of Sialkot. Its founder was Raja Shal, he remained until his death."15
maternal uncle to the Pandavas, and his deThe poem of Páran Bhagat tells with much scendants reigned there many years, but evengreater detail the above tale, and in a variant I tually abandoned it. It was rebuilt by Salihave in vernacular MS. Pêran heaps coals of vahaņa "according to Panjáb chroniclers, about fire on Lonân's head by using his newly acquired A.D. 90 (P 78 or 80), and according to the magical powers to grant her a son, who should Bhatti chroniclers of Rájpútáná, A.D. 16, sapbe learned and brave and holy, but who would posing that Sialkot is the original Sálba hanpur, not remain at home with her, so that she should the capital of Saliva hana." Sialkot, he says, weep as she had made Ichhran (or Achhrân) has been known also as Shálkot, Shâlkunt, to weep. This son was the great wanderer and (? Shâlkund), Sakalpůr and Risalkot from conqueror Rasálů.
Risâlâ, the son of Salivahaņa. He further says The great Panjabi Sikh family of Sindhân- that the Sials of Jhang claim to have founded waliâ, of Raja Sånsi, near Amritsar, claims de Sialkot, and that they once settled there and scent from Salivahan of Sialkot. They are built a fort seems certain, but the town was Sansi Jatts, but with the wearisome regularity founded many years before their arrival in the of all Panjabis of note claim a Rajpôt descent, Panjab."15 and say they are Bhattis from Ujjayin who In the statement that Sialkot, -Sakalpar, was migrated under one Shal, the founder of Sialkot. founded by Shal, maternal uncle to the PândaGriffin summarily rejects this tale, and what he vas, we get a clue to the origin of all these says on the subject (pp. 12-13), is well worth fables. Påndu had two wives, Kunti and Madri. recording here, if only as an indication as to Kunti was the daughter of the Yadava king the proper places to go to for a search into Süra, and her brother was Vasudeva, father of existing stories and traditions. Following local Kțishna and Balarama, and this does not help legends, he says in effect that Raja Shal (Saliva. except that Kunti was also the name of a hana) was the son of Raja Gaj of Jaysalmir, North Indian race. Madri was the sister and that after the latter's battle with the king of the king of the Madras or Bahikas, whose of Khurâsân he came to the Panjab, destroyed capital was Sakala, which has been identified LAhor and built Sialkot. Here he settled and as the Sagala of Ptolemy on the banks of the here were born to him 16 song, "all of whom Biyas, S.W. of Lahor, and as the Sanga la of became independent, and from whom many of Alexander. Madra extended from the Biyâs to the hill princes have descended." Griffin anfor. the Chinab or Jhelam." The Mahábharata
** Still shown at Sialkot on the road to Kallow&l. 16 Gorakhnth, however, was at least 8 centuries later than Puran Bhagat. The above is the received legend of Půran Bhagat
16 Tod, vol. II, p. 192, gives & more; VAchA, Lekh, Jaskara, NemA, Mat, Nipak, Gangad and Jagad
» Griffin's Rajas of the Punjab, 1873, pp. 1-11, 282-3, $80, 546-7.
** Cf. note 7, npri.
» Trumpp in his Adf Granth p. lxxix, footnote, quotes some verses from the Vichitra Natak by the 10th Sikh Gurd Govind Siógh (A.D. 1875-1708) :
V. 281. Pana sahar bikhai bhawa layo; Madrados ham ko le de.
"I took birth in the City of Pånd, He (Gura Teghbahadur 1664-75) took me (then) to Madradê.." Govind
