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JOLY, 1837.) FOLKLORE IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCES OF INDIA; No. 11. 195
हम्मीरजुदराभो बग्गदेसं मुहम () सवाई नयराणि व मंजिव भासावल्लीए पत्तो | कण्णदेवराओम नही । सोममाईच घणघाण भंजित्ता गनुपरोविऊण बीबी
वामणथलीए ( गंतुं ) मंडलिकराणयं इंडिसा सोरहे 'नियमाणं पहा[हा वित्ता भासावाल्लीए भावासिभी
ATIJAT TO) "Then in the Vikrama year 1356 the youngest brother of Sultan Allavadin, called Uud Khan, started from the town of Dhilli for Gajarât, accompanied by the minister (Nusrat Khan] and nobles. The lord of Cittakada (Chitor), Samarasiha, then protected the Mecâd country by paying a fine (?). Then the Yuvaraja Hammira, having ... tho Vagga country and having destroyed hundreds of towns reached Asavalli, and kirg Kannadeva (Karua II) fled. And having broken (the linga of Bomanatha with a strong blow ... hayiug punished, 10 Bana Mamdalikka of Vamanathall (Vanthlt) and established his authority iu Borath (Ulagh Khân) settling in A82valli, barnt the monasteries, palaces and temples.
Jinaprabha then goes on to narrate a miracle, performed by the Yaksha Bambhasanti, who made the gongs in the tom ple of Satyapura ring, whereupon the army of the Mldelchhas filed and the Jaina temple was saved for a time. He, however, admits that later the temple was defiled and the sacred image of Mahavira was carried to Delhi in Vikratnasamvat 1366 by AllAvadina's order and made an dsdyanabhayanu...
FOLKLORE IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCES OF INDIA.
BY M. N. VERKETSWAMI OF NAGPUR.
No. 11. - The Old Woman of the Sugar-cane Field. ONCE upon a time in a certain country there lived a king. One day he started on an expedition, and, preceding his army and retinue, he became cut off from them, and found himself in the heart of a dense forest. Feeling very thirsty, and not having a single attendant to fetela for him a lot of water, he entered a sugar-cane field hard by. The owner of the field was au old woman. He addressed her thus :
"Mother, will you kindly give me to driuk? I feel very, very thirsty."
"Sir," said the woman, "I have no water here, but there is a well a mile hence. You can go, mounted as you are on your horse, and slake your thirst there."
"But,” said the king, “I am exhausted and fatigued, and have not the strength to go 180 far, even on my charger."
On this the old woman, who was of a compassionate nature, pierced with thorn one of the sugar-canes and extracted a lórd-full of juice and offered it to the king. He drank it, and finding it refreshing asked for more. The woman repeated the process, and obtained another. This he drank also and asked for a third draught, so thirsty was he. This request also she complied with. Refreshed thus, the king, before leaving the field, asked the owner what rent she paid for the ground. He was informed "one rape," and the ungrateful king thought that the ground-rent levied was too little.
• This passage is corrupt beyond restoration and matilated, but contains without doubt a referonce to th transportation of the idol to Delhi. -Elliot, op. cit. Vol. III. p. 41.
"I suppose Una (Ulugh) Kh An is meant; the word J , loft untranslated, seems to be corrupt. • Asfval near AhmedAbad, whore according to this acoount the battle seems to have been fought, . See the note to the text.
• Or "levied fine from." Narrated by Jairam Kunbl, a chupris in the Houorary Magistrate's Court, City, Nagpar.
