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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JANUARY, 1910.
Then the attendants brought water for him to drink, but he would not drink it at their hands, so one said Mornî had better give him a drink, as he might take it from her., Rai Morni brought some sherbet and told him to drink it. He got up and went down the stairs, and opened his hands to receive the water, so that he might both see Rai Morni's face as well as get a drink. When he had had enough, he made a gaps3 between his hands and drew them away. He took his fill both of the sherbet and of his view of Morni. With his nails he removed the lac from his face and washed it with water, revealing the handsome form of a youth. Rái Mornt was surprised and said: "What's all this? He was an old Brahman, but now he had turned out to be a young man." And she told the Brahmau to tell the truth and say if he was Râi Has's Brahman or not.
He said: "Kill or spare me as you please. I am his Brahman, and he sent me." The maids exclaimed that if this Brahman was so handsome, what must the Râja be like? Rai Morni asked if he knew anything about his patron and he said, "yes." So she said, "tell me," and he spoke thus: -
Bait.
"Jis din Hassd jamid haisi changa war.
Jis ki pagri sir ute Hassa, kade na aya har.
Lagge mutthe na chalda, howan katak hazár.
Tun gori te oh sánwald; jor dhari Rabb sanwur.
Verse.
The day when Hassâ was born, was an auspicious day.
Since assâ donned his turban he has never gone back.
Opposed he does not give way, be there a thousand robbers.
Thou art fair and he is dark; God hath made a pair.
T'ûn bah nindrî us nal; oh bah nindra tere nál." Thou wilt sit beside him a beauty; he will sit a beauty beside thee,"
Rai Morni gave all her jewelry to the Brahman and wrote a letter and told him to deliver it to Rai Has. She wrote that her wedding procession was to be expected the next day but one. Rûp Chand asked how he was to get out of the palace, and so Morni had him dressed in a woman's clothes and sent him out with her maids, who were to take him out of the city. Outside, he put on his own dress and set out for his own town. Returning to Rái Has he delivered the letter to him, after first going home and making over all the ornaments to his Brahmant. He told Rai Has to expect the wedding procession and Has went home and said :
Bait.
Verse.
Thân bakhsho, mere aayo mayo; pher bakhshi, "Give me your breast, my nurses and matrons : meri Késar mán. give them again, Kêsar, mother mine. Jiwan, tán le dwan Morni: môidn, tan panah If I live, I will bring Mornt: if I die, there is Khuda." the asylum of God."
Said his mother: "My son, I will get you wives more beauteous than Mornt. Râi Majhâr has 18,000 horse, and Târadhira as many more. That makes 36,000 horsemen in all. Compared to that force what have you?" But Rai Has insisted on going and refused to stay, and his mother said: "If you will go, don't bring Morn! by stealth. If you do, I will not give you my milk."
Chhik, a draught drunk without taking breath.
