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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
IN learning Multani and Biluchi, dialects without any written literature, I found that listening to stories was the easiest and most interesting method of study : and gradually came to write down the Multani stories, at first for my own benefit only, and afterwards in the hope that they might also be of use to others interested in the people of the Multan Province and their language. The stories were all taken down in a year, a time of scant leisure ; and, if time had permitted, the collection would have been improved by a process of selection, and still more by filling up lacunae. There is nothing, for instance, to illus- trate the Hindu point of view, and nothing, scandalous or otherwise, of the numerous pilgrimages to shrines which form such a marked feature of the everyday life of the Province. Still, there are few of the stories which do not throw light on some aspect of native character, and some of them have already been used to point arguments in leading articles.
The stories were taken down at the dictation of three people:—
(1) The abduction of Mr. Grey, from Shah Muhammad
Shah, Durban, of Shahpur, Tahsil Leiah.
(2) All the verse and the last three prose stories, from
Mazar Khan. Leghari, a teacher of Biluchi living in the Leghari country, District Dera Qhazi Khan.
(3) The remainder from Kazi Abdur Rahman of Qureshl,
Tahsil Muzaffargarh, who assisted the late Mr. Edward O'Brien with his Multani Glossary.
Local differences of style and dialect therefore naturally reveal themselves.
Contractions are very common in Jattki, and special atten- tion is invited to the notes on pages 46 and 52 of the Revised Glossary. Contractions in past tenses of verbs, fusions of past participles with the verb to be, etc., explain what at first sight look like grammatical errors in these stories. Other examples of contractions are the frequent dropping of h in the present tense of the verb to be, in the 3rd personal pronoun, in hikk and else- where. Another letter often dropped is j, (pronounced between j and y) in vanjna, to go, e.g ., van'ke, having gone. Cf. also the dropping of v in vich after a consonant as apat ich ; and ahda for akhda, dehda for dekhda, etc., etc.*
The third person singular present tense of the verb to be is commonly pronounced through the nose, 6 or he : while the third person singular and plural ot the imperfect are generally sounded as dissyllables ha-i^ha-inn.
"Compare with van'ke ich the elision in pronunciation of E'ioburgh of the real Scot. Oh<'a and dehda are du- to linguistic changes, I think. Cf. ban (Bituchij fot KVia 4 changes to p Or vice vtrtt ; probably the Biluchi represents the older form.
H. PHI LBV.
Criticism may be directed to the point that I have not been systematic in dealing with words in which the Multani nearly resembles the Panjabi or Urdu form, such as — •
hikk e"k | bahfi bahut | sal sahib | na nam kai koi | meda, mera, etc. | saggan sakna
The fact is that the three men who told these stories knew some Urdu, and like all natives of the Punjab educated in and us- ing that language, habitually speak not the pure dialect, but the dialect with a varying mixture of Urdu. As far as may be I followed what they actually said ; and always to write the local word or form would be to imitate the pedantry of a well-known teacher of Panjabi who always insisted on his pupils calling a book, pothi.
In the marginal notes I have tried to give the meanings of uncommon words and have added a few remarks on points of interest which I hope will not be regarded as too trivial or unnecessary.
Major A. J. O'Brien, C.I.E,, read through the manuscript, while the proofs were read by Mr. H St. J. Philby, and the dorhas by Rai Bahadur Pandit Hari Kishen Kaul, C.I.E. Sir George Grierson, K. C.I.E., and Mr. H. A. Rose also saw the proofs and made valuable suggestions. Most of these gentle- men added notes separately indicated, and Colonel H. Grey, C.S.I., wrote the note appended to Story 51.
My grateful thanks are due to all of them, especially to Mr. Philby and Pandit Hari Kishen Kaul, who took great pains in eliminating errors. The manuscript and original proofs left much to be desired as a record of the Multani language, and even the final product must doubtless be open to£rave criticism. In- dulgence is asked for all errors. I have no pretensions to be a scholar or a linguist, and ask that this little book may be regarded as the hasty compilation of an amateur who has taken an interest in the language of the Muzaffargarh District.
The ballad of Muzaffar Khan is not in Multani. It was given to me by Mr. Rose, who is responsible for its form. It is a fine ballad, and subject and standpoint more than justify its inclusion in a collection of Multani Tales and Verses.
The information about the famous .saint SakM Sher Shah was obtained for me by ChaudrT Oil Ahmad, Tahsildar, from one of the saint's descendants.
My thanks are also due to the Punjab Government, which has published the book, and to the Press for trouble taken with the proofs.
F. W. SKEMP,
INDEX.
MULTANl STORIES.
PAGES.
1. The death of Ahmad Khan ... ... ... 8
2. Bahawal Khan and Bijar ... ... ... 12
3. Hew an imperial visitation was averted ... ... 14
4. Why Bahawal Khan's canals ran well ... ... 16
5. The expiation of a sin ... ... ... tb.
6. How Bahawal Khan united a pair of lovers ... 18
7. Bal awal Khan and the weavers ... ... ib.
8. The Qureshis' feast ... ... ... 20
g. Stories of Muzaffar Khan ..« ... ... 22
10. Muzaffar Khan and Karhal, the strong man ... 24
n. More stories of Karbal Kljan, the strong man ... ib.
(2. Karbal Khan and the Wrestler ... ... 26
13. The Diwan an<i the adulterer ... ... ... ib.
14. The T-Iwan and a murderer ... ... ... 28
15. The Diwan and a robber ... ... ... ib.
r6. The Diwan and a Fakir. ... ... ... 3°
17. Gul Naslm Shah, the heretic .„ ... ... 32
18. Learning love ... ... ... ... ib.
19. Mia Sarong and a miracle ... ... ... 36
20. The English conquest foretold... ... ... 38
21. How Bahar Khan of the Jatois pleased the Emperor ... 40
22. Wali Muhammad Khan, Governor of MultSn ... 42
23. How Mehwal Khan rescued a poor woman's cattle ... ib.
24. The Nahars of Sitpur ... ... ... 44
25. The devoted lovers ... ... ... 48
26. Khota, the roobber... ... ... ... ib.
27. The Kirar and the Jatt ... ... ... 50
28. Whom God fears ... ... ... ... 52
29. The Devil asleep ... ... ... ... 54
30. Another story against a pa^wail ... ... ib.
31. The abduction of Lieutenant Grey ... ... 56
32. Saggal the robber ; and why he mended his ways ... 62
33. The Theft ... ... ... ... 64
34. A Quarrel ... ... ... ... 66
MULTANl SONGS.
1. O ! come back ... ... ... ... 68
2. 1 he pains of love ... ... ... ... '/o
3. Qaf ... ... ... ... -. 7*
4. '1 he slave of Gudas ... ... ... »0.
5. The sweets of love... ... ... 74
6. The agony of separation ... ... ... ib.
7. Dal ... ... ... ... ... 76
A Ballad of Muzaffar Khan ... ... ... 78
STORY No. I.
THE DEATH OF AHMAD KHAN.
Bahawal Khan dadl-e change na nal ajj tal mashhur he. Vail hikk caangf nS hai, jo ajj tal log misal ahdenn, Khan de kann hain, te
akkh kai nahai. Jiwe jo trai Wazir Khan Bahawal
Chip lap — tale-telling. ,,, , . , ,_ _,, 3 _. ,_ ,_ . ,..,.
Khan hi kann de ga h nal chap lap te maraghitti-
on his — hikk Gargej, hikk Qureshi, te Ahmad Khan Pathan.
Ahmad Khan Pathan kff thori jehi galh kanff ranja thigea ; jo Khlii kanfl bell kanjkS dha ditti, asakfl tankhwah nahl mildi, as^a dadhe kharab hai, Khan naukarS ktt akhea, tust>a vanjo, Ahmid Khan Wazir kdt medS vanj akho, tuhakS mahlna dgdesl. Bell Ahmad Khan kol vanjkar akhea, apakff Khan Sahib hukm ditte, jo tussS Wazir ku vanj akho, tuhaktt tankhwah ded^sl. Ahmad Khan dl zaban kanTK, kalam e nikkthi, Khan chhohar jo thea ; Khan k3 ^habar n2 ttiei. Vanjo apna kamm kard.
Naukar? Iho galh Khan k3 hubahu akhditti. Khan ha ve'e sipah! pattlie, vanjo, -Abdul Karim Munshi ate Jamiat Ka Khazanclii kiX pakkar ghinnao. Sipahi drukkde g^e, Abdul Karim kfl te Jamiat Ra kiX ghintiae. Jamfat Ra buddha adml ha, Khan da chalan janda ha ; e pichhJJ pichhS mattha mattha anda pea ha. Abdul Karim Khan pahile |Chan da salam klta. Khan sharat kit! sipahi k8 jo ikS na chhoro. Sipahi neze nal h3kia inarghitta. Jamnt Ra galh vich kapra cha patus ate hatth baddhke kambda kambda akheus — Sal, rredl ikk galh suno. Pichhe maraghittese', ta Malik he. Barhe varhe da hissab khazane da mal kan h6. O bi mal kantt Sarkar sambhal ghinne ate trih hazar rupiye bi mal desa. Khan hS de maraghattan kanu tal gea, ate kath maraghittas,
Khan pichhe Sayyad Rajan Bakhsh ku Mulla Ibrahim Kotwal kW te Kamma Kanjke k^ Ahmad Khan do mutta ; taiku rukhsat he, tff darya par ajj hi ajj lang vanj. Ajjan e Ahmad Khan de darwaze na pahute hain, jo Ghulam Muhammad Khan, Ahmad Khau da bhra, va4da bahadur jawan Ahmad Khan de kol a) a, te akheus — LJhra, tedi zaban di khattl pai chahndf be", bhala jehri banni, sir te chahs^. Ghulam Muhammad Khan saneha JChan da pura na sunnea, jo markar banduk Mulla Ibrahim ku marghittus. Beii banduk nal Kamme Kanjke kt( vi sitt; his. Sayyad kiX akheus tede paighambar da mohaba he- Sayyad Rajan Bakhsh vanjke, Khan kB hai ditta, " Kamma as!8 marchuke, Mulla Ibrahim kuch jinda h6." ]Khaa Kil akheus, Sardar mal bi bachanwala koi nahf,
mede tabbar dl parat hai. Khan hukm d'tta
Parat = philosopher's iashkar ^ Ahmad Khan de ghar ktSt udadeo. ^.^Br£*»I TofS di chidharo dudha lag gai. Ghulam also will become gold." Muhammad Khan bhra Ahmad Khan da, dar
band karke, pahile trimate ku moea kitus,
KN< pichhe darakht de utte khatra tangke hathiare
Dudh»cv noise. nal utte charh bahta. Darakht de odhar
kanvSf tof di mar rS pahudi hai, bandfik n§l
trai sau admi khun kitus. Khan Bahawal Khan apne mahal te bari vichS jati pakar sipahi ku hakkal dittus;ki hikk jawan sare lashkar
STORY No. I.
THE DEATH OF AHMAD KHAN.
Bahawal Kh5n has left a very good name to this day, but one thing- about him was not good ; indeed it is a saying which people still say,, that the Khan had ears but no eyes. Thus from listening to tales BahSwal Khan had three Wazirs put to death, a Gargej, a Koreshi, and Ahmad Khau Pathan.
He became angry with Ahmad Khan Pathan because of a very little thing. His dependents and courtiers complained that they were not receiving their pay, and were in a distressed condition. The jKhaa told his servants to go to Ahmad Khan Wazlr, and give him a message to pay their month's salary. They went to Ahmad Khan and said " The Khan has ordered us to come to you for bur pay." This reply fell from Ahmad Khan's lips, " A boy like the JChan, what does he know about it ? Get about your business."
The servants repeated this speech word for word to the Khan. At once the Khan pent armed men, saying " Go seize Abdul Karlm, the writer, and Jamiat Rai, the treasurer, and bring them to me." The soldiers hastened and brought Abdul Karfm and Jamiat Rai. Jamiat Rai was an old man, and he knew the Khan's ways, so he came very slowly, behind Abdul Karlm, who was the first to do obeisance to the Khan. The Khan made a sign to the soldiers not to spare Abdul Karim, and they killed him with their spears.
'^V1?*0- Jamiat Rai wrapped* his chadar round his neck, ken of abject submission. J . • i_ j -j ui- M o*
H.A. R. and clasping his hands said trembling, " Sirei
henr only one word, then slay me if it be your pleasure. The Treasury accounts for twelve years are due from me ; take the accounts, and I will also pay thirty thousand rupees." The Khan changed bis mind, about putting him to death, and put him in the stocks.
Then the Khan sent Sayyad Rajan Bak^sh, Mulla Ibrahim the- Kotwal, and Kamma, the courtier, to Ahmad Khan with this order : " You are dismissed ; this very day get across the river." They had not reached Ahmad Khan's door when his brother, Ghulam Muhammad ]Khan, a very brave man, came and said " Brother, this is because of your tongue ; still whatever befalls we will bear it." Ghulam Muhammad Khan had hardly heard the Khan's message before he fired his gun and killed Mullah Ibrahim, With another shot he hit Kamma, the courtier. To the Sayyid he said " The respect due to the Prophet, is due to you also." Sayyad Rajan Bakhsh went and told this to the Khan, saying, " Kamma is stone dead, Mulla Ibrahim just breathing ; and I should certainly not have been spared but for my lineage." The Khan ordered his array to raze Ahmad Khan's house. From ail sides guns were fired; Ghulam Muhammad Khan, Ahmad Khan's
brother, barricading the door, first slew the tTo save them Irom women>-|- then slinging a charpoy up a tree,
sat up there \\ith his weapons. The guns-
could not reach him because of the shelter afforded by the tree. With his gun he slew three hundred men. Khan Bahawal Khan putting his head through a window of the palace called out to the
io MULTANI STORIES,
kan kabfi nahl thinda. Half ! heve ! gando ! hikk adm! sare kfl kabQ nahf
_ . denda. Pichfce lashkar hallan kite. Ghulam
Muhammad vi khatre kanfl lahke, talwar hatth
vich karke, All ! All ! karende bahar aya. Dar kaniJ kdl koi nS venda ha : Abdul Karl m Khan Pathan Kanganwala vingakar, Gliulam Muhammad tie sir t6 aya. Pahila war hatthiar da Abdul Karim kita, duje war GJhulam Mohammad tahvar nal Abdul Karim ku do ghand karditte ; te Gliulam Muhammad apne zabSn nal ahda ha —
Khaki - a grain of dust, Kar tawakkal masha Allah,
andsowiih negative not at Kadir ^ewe te diwaiye,
H. PHILBY. P»r Paighambar khaki rS ^halle,
ShSdS - wretched, hum- B<* shode di kya ja he?
ble, somewhat the same sig- nificance as Urdu bechara.
Chhekir shsda sipah di bhir vich marea gea. Ahmad Khan hatth- iar ka hatthna laea, mattS nimak harame vich thiva, Koran parhdl ja te shahid thea. '
THE DEATH OF AHMAD KHAN. u
soldiers '< One man can't be taken by the whole army ! Shame on you,
cowards! one man defying you all !" Then the army advanced ; Ghulftro
Muhammad too, descending from his perch, came forth, sword in hand,
, . crying All ! All ! From fear nobody went
All. nephew and son-in- r» , A i_ j i \r , TTT., r\ *t_
law of the Prophet. All near him, but at last Abdul Karlm Khan, Patban champions call on him for of Kangan, striding forward, advanced to •id a« h.ro and athlete. meet Ghulam Muhammad. The first bio w waa struck by Abdul Karlm, but with the second blow Ghulam Muhammad clave Abdul Karlm in twain and Ghulam Muhammad cried—
Put your trust in the will of God, The Lord alone giveth and causeth to be given, Nor saint nor prophet can stay the will of God, Then what power have other mortals ?
At last, unhappy man, he was slain in the press of the soldiery.' Ahmad Khan that he might not be faithless to his salt, handled no weapon; and was martyred as he was reading the Koran (lit.) at the place where the Koran is read;.
MULTANI STORIES.
STORY No. 2.
IBAHAWAL KHAN AND BIJAR.
Bahawal Khan hikk dihare shikar te gea. Khan de aggo ikk tittsr mushki udea, hikk garirl d5 vich chhip gea, Khan garirl de vich tittar ku bahfl golea, tittar r>3 laddha, garirl ku bha lawSditta. Gaririwali ikk budhri baliti hai. Khan flku akhea garfr! sargai he, tQ ]"5 kujh mange mang. Budhri akhea, mal nlmhi mangdi, m6da puttr asl oovo an ghinel. Khan tureS gea. P^chhe flktmft Bijar Khan puttr budhri da jo ajjar nal na, agea. MS akheus jekar tff nr.eda puttr?, taikG battrl dhara* ra bakhshesa je tai tfl garirl saranwale da sir na ghinn awe. Bijar kuharl mundhe te ralhke bhajjpea, rah vich Khan kfl van miiea. Khan ghora cha jalea, te akhea, Tfl garirl da hakk jehra ghinni ghinn, mat taiVG dewa. Bijar akhea mal teda sir ghinnsa. Khan akhea, var kar. Bijar Khan kuharl marl, Khan apne palatthe de hunar nal gbore de pase nal apna bacha kltus. Bijar k\X maraghittus.
•Battri dharS = molher's milk (so-called because it is supposed to Row in thirty-two streams). Like 12, 22, 4?, 52. etc., 32 is a mystic number.
Battti dVarS nS bak^- sbesa (I will not forego mother's milk, i.e , I insist on my claims to your obe- dience as a son.)
Cf.t also batti-jjgff at
page 107, column 2 of the Standard Punjab! Diction- ary published by Rai Sahib Gulab Singh and Sons.
la rkan «= to be suspended larka\van=»to hang.
Do mirasl lashkar vich khare tain ; hikk akhea :—
"Khutthl kho Bijara larea,
Ap vl moea ate juga vl sarea." Duje mirasl, Kappar name, e dohra parhea : —
"Shabas e Khan Bijar kS jai hikka baddhf.
Khan jobaddba dudu Khan hikka vl na baddhl. Klian kfl iwe larkaeus, jiwe Mochi larkendi adi,1
Vail pahila dhadhi vatt akhea : —
« Hikk hath koch vich, dQje baz nita."
Kappar akhea — " Mareha Khan Bijar ktJ baz saddke klta."
kt( Kappar di galh sunke dadha kawar thigea ; phasi da hukm dittus. Kappar jehre vele phasi de kol gea, akheus hikk van maikfl Khan de samne ghinn jula, medi ikk arz baki h^. Kappar ktt vail ghinn aya Khan de aggo. Kappar dohra akhea —
" Je itt dul darya, ta kappar vich kharkaye Je ifl dubbi cblchi, ta Kappar phasi vich."
Khan hi sukhan te khush thigea, Kappar ku chhordittus te kujh Da^shlsh vl dittus.
Dula") dul j
kharkawan rattle
dnbbl = depression chlcbl— noisome.
Sahib
to knock,
A play on Kappar — a •hoal, aod his own name.
BAHAWAL KHAN AND BIJAR. *t
STORY No. 2.
BAHAWAL KHAN AND BIJAR.
One day Bahavral Khan went out shooting. A black partridge got np in front of the Khan, and settled in a grass hut The Khan looked for the partridge fora longtime, but could not find it, so set fire to the hut. An old woman lived in the hut, and the Khan said to her "The hut is burned, but ask anything you wish." The old woman replied " I won't ask for anything ; my son will come and take." The Khan went on and Bijar Khan, the old woman's son, who had been lierdiog a flock of goats, came after he had gone. His mother said to him, " it you are my son, then bring the head of him who burned the hut. I won't forgive you if you disobey." Bijar putting a hatchet over his shoulder went off, and on the road he met the Khan. The Khan reined in his ho'se and said " Whatever you like to take in exchange for the hut, I will give you." Bijar said " I will take your head." The Khan said "Strike." Bijar struck with his hatchet, but the KhS n, who was a fine horseman, bent suddenly over the tar side of his horse and avoided the blow. He had Bijar killed.
Two Miraslswere in his following, one said:-*-
" In vain did Bijar fight : he died and his home is burned too.'* The other Mirasi, named Kappar, recited this verse :—
" Bravo, Bijar Khan, who has struck one blow.
The Khan who wears two swords struck no blow.
He hung the Khan down like tanners hang their skins."
Then the first bard said again :—
"One hand on his saddle bow, the other held a hawk." Kappar replied :—
" If the Khan had wished to strike Bijar, he would have flung away the hawk."
The Khan hearing Kappar's words was much enraged and ordered him to be hanged. When Kappar was taken to the gallows he said u Take me once more before the Khan, I still have a petition to make.1' They took Kappar again before the Khan. He recited a verse:—
" If you are the mighty River, then a shoal in its midst is noisy. If you are the stinking water of a little pond, then Kappar is hanged."^
The Khan was pleased by this saying and let Kappar go and rewarded him, •
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STORY No, 3-
HOW AN IMPERIAL VISITATION WAS AVERTED.
BahSwal J£han dadha nek §dml ha, sakhi ha, ate 5dil ha, ate ralyatg ktt dadba mehrban ha. Fakire* auIiaviS* kh^angahwale"
Sakhl-generous. nal vl dadha yakin rakhda ha, jiw£ J5 ajj t&I ak?ar
khangahwalia kfl jagire* muaf hino, kinhai kinhai
khangahg te rok rupiya, kai te panj sau ruplya, kai te hazar rupiya, ajj tal ditte vendin. Ikk war! mulk Dehl! nal ha, Dehll de badshah de khabar riassat dg'awan di Khan kff pahuti. Khan Sahib apne hikk mushir kfl Sakhi Sher Shah Sayyad Jalal Sahib de khangah te baitheus ; van] Jdialifat kQ ate sal da potre kit van] akh, khangah wa'e kiX arz kare, jo badshah I pase awan chahnr'e, mulk tusadde raiyat k^arab thisi. Trai ratl mushir t^ikkea riha. Triji rat Juma di hai-I,
Sajjada — sajja.ia naahin khwab de vich sajjade kt( te khalifa ku hukm -the occupier of the carpet thea, balke mushir ap vi jo darwaze te chajle " theFi'' H.PHILBY. hgth sutta pea ha, dittha, j5 ap Sakhi Sber Shah
Chajja = portico. khangah kanfl bahar nikalke, makan do turea
Makan -place where vende. Khalifa arz kita, Sal, Khan da adml aya
fakirs sit. hazur vich. e arzi ehlnnay^, jo badshah Dehll wala
Do «i towsras. ... ' ._ . i_ • \ _ ,- - A »» i,
sail karan nassat de vich anda pea e. Mulk tau
fakir da hfi, raiyat Kharab thisl: dua firmao. Sakhi Sher Shah akhea, fajr
kfl ikk fakir Sari wala lamme atfe te baitha hosi, \XkiX vanjke meda
salam akho, ate ftkTf iha galh sunao, flh5 kai
Sari— a fakir's blanket biha jj^ggi. pa;r fcfl uthike flhl ave tegae.
ge^raiiy »SadS u" "of Fakir Mahukim Din Sairani Sahib baithe hann,
patches of various colours, hflkff iho sangha dittonhe. Sairani Sahib akhea
Aura-heap of earth ajj Badshah Lahor 'kanfl parle pase lattha pea ^,
jaldi dak te adml rawana thlve^ lashkar kanff
pahile, turan de vele, aggo badshah da ajjar hqnde. U de vich ikk fakir trappS khanda h5ea, aggo anda pea hosi. Uktt vanjke pare kanff medi chitthi cha dikhalo.. .
Babawal Khan fakir de akhan mQjib, dak ghorS te adml rawana kit5. O fakir ajjar de aggo tappda anda ha ; hCktt pare kaniX 5hi chichi (Sairani Sahib-wail) dikhaeus. Fakir dekhan nal pichhu te chs! m§rl. Badshah da hukm thigea, Mausim garm h^, pichhiX te Dehll vail julo.
*Aulia is the pi. of -stall. The Shi'a belief is that the world is divided into districts, each governed by a spiritual ruler or wait. The term is also applied to shah Shuja as ruler of Kabul.
H. A. ROSE.
fKhalifa means successor, and so vicar or vicegerent. It is applied not onh- to ths
successors of a saint, but also to deputies in his life-time. Here I take it to mean
spiritual successor, as contra^ ed with the saint's descendants and the other members of the
khangah. For khalifa mujdat or vicar licensed to make disciples, see Bahawalpur Gazetteer,
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For an account of Mahukim Din SahiW-Sair, see ibid, page 182,
H, A. Ross,
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STORY No. 3-
HOW AN IMPERIAL VISITATION WAS AVERTED.
Bahawal Khan was a very good man, generous just, and kind to his people. He was a firm believer in fakirs, holy men, and keepers of shrines : to this day most keepers of shrines enjoy as- signments of land revenue ; while some receive payments in cash ; to some five hundred rupees, to others a thousand are still given. Once, when feudatory to Delhi, the Khan got news that the Delhi Emperor was going to visit his State. The Khan sent one of his courtiers to sit at the shrine of Sakhl Sher Sliah* Sayyad Jalal Sahib: and ordered him "Tell the door-keeper and the son of the Saint and the keepers of the shrine, that the
tJftEft&SJSflZ Emperor wish,s to conje ,hi, way. Your kingdom
say nothing of theexac- and people will be spoiled. rhe courtier remain-
tons of underlings. ed there for three nights. The third night, the
eve of Friday, the Plr and the door-keeper were
commanded in a dream : nay, the courtier himself, who was sleeping under the portico in front of the door, SPW Sakbi Sher Shah himself come ftrth from the shrine, and advance to the spot where the holy meu sit. The door-keeper said with reverence, " Your honour, a man has come from the Khan to the Presence with this petition, that the Delhi Emperor has set forth for a journey in the State. O holy man, the land is yours, your people will be spoiled ; save them." Sakhl Sher Shah said " In the morning, a fakir wearing a blanket will be sitting at the southern brick kiln, go to him, give him greetings from me, and tell him this thing', he will devise some plan." In the morning they got up and went to that brick kiln. Fakir Mahukim Din, the Traveller, was sitting there, and they gave him the message. The Traveller said, " To-day the Em- peror is encamped on the far side of Lahore ; let a man be sent swiftly by relays of horses. The Emperor's flock of sheep and goats is always in front of the army when they march. Amcng them is a holy man always leaping. Go to him, take him aside and show him my letter."
In accordance with the bidding of the holy man, Babawal Khan sent a n.an by relays of horses. That fakir appeared leaping in front of the flock, and taking him aside, he shewed him the Traveller's letter. The fakir on seeing it started back. The Emperor's order came "It is hot: return to Delhi."
*NoTB. -The full name of thin Saint Is Makhdum Sher Shah Sayyad Jali! Hosaini Bokhari. H« was descended ftom Husain, the martyr of Kaibala, and, wandering from hi* native city of Bokhara, settled down in Uch about the year 633 Hijri. His shrine, refctred to in this story, is still venerated in L/ch. He had five son*, from each of whom sprang a line of Hrs, one being now represented by Makhdum Kararn Hussain of Rangpur. The Nawaba of Bahawalptir are disciples of Sakhl Sher Shah.
The shrine of Fakir Mahukim Din is a;so in Bahawalpur State. He waa probably a dis- ciple of this fa-riily of Saints, and, it is suggested, got the title Sanaa!, cr Traveller, becaus* of his association with the real Lord of Journeys, who is referred to in the next story (4). This is Sayyad Jalal Din, born in the year 707 Hijri, to Sayyad Ahmad, one of the five sons of SakhiSher Shah, Frgra his extensive travels Sayyad JalAI DID wai called Makhdiiaa Jahinifi Jahangasht,
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STORY No. 4.
WHY BAHAWAL KHAN'S CANALS RAN WELL.
Bahawal Khan da fakir? nal dadha sacha dii ha. Hikk dihare kuehehri vich bahke, fakhr mareus— Dekha meda ujiha intizam he, ja sia'le ktt vi na!e vahnde pae hinn. Rat kfl nlnd vich sutta pea ha, khwab ditthus, io Sairani badshah Fakir Sariwafa kahl munde te rakhke, nale dl kandhi te phirde khare ate ahde, meda puttra, kuchehri vich bahke, fakhr marenda he, jo mede intizam nal na!e vahnde pain. Jekar fakir Sudh- Khabar, di mehr na hoveha, tede intizam di sudh p5 veha*.
Khan di nind ukir gai ; « vele nagara tiari da Khan Sal Khangah Saliib Sairani te vanjke, galh vich kapra pake, kasor bakhsh\vaeu3 te nazrana rakheus,
STORY No. 5-
THE EXPIATION OF A SIN.
Khan apne din de vich vadda dlndar ha, sakhi h§, Khuda (if bandag! karnwalaha, jiwe J5 ikk dihare Bahawa! Khan kanQthukk pachad te Kible de pase sattigai. Babawal Khan ki be-adabi Kibie kanu dadha munjha thigea, ate alime' kft saddakar, Iho masla puchchhus jo mal kanS thukk pachad te pai gai he, i da badla kai khairat, ya koi bea kamm hove, maiktX dasso. Alime k\X bahtf sari khairate ate kalme parhaea, magar Khan de dil tikana ra aya. Khan akhea, Maulvi Ahmad k\5t sadd ghinnao, maiktt ohi de dassan nal dil achha vanj thisi. Maulvi Ahmad ku sadd ghinnaye'. Maulvi Ahmad ak^^a, teda e guoah khairate nal ate kalme nal nahl bakhshinda. Albatta han, jekar tu taj sir kanft laha rakl e ate apne mfth nal uha thukk chattg ta Khuda cha bakhshe, tS Malik he. Khan Sahib Maulvi Sahib de akhan mannke taj laha rakheus ate apne muh nal uha thukk satti hoi zaml te chattus, Tal vele Khan da dil vanj tharea.
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EXPIATION OF A SIN. ij
STORY No. 4.'
WHY BAHAWAL KHAN'S CANALS RAN WELL.
Bahawal Khan was very good to holy men. One day seated in court he Coasted "See what a good manager I am, the canals are running even
in the cold weather. " At night as he was asleep
,tor Sari£nl~"ee note to he saw in a dream that the Traveller*, the King of 1 Tslriwala. Holy Men, wearing his blanketf was walking up
and down the bank of a canal, a spade over his
shoulder, saying " My son, you sit in your Court, and boast that the canals are flowing through your good management ; but for the kind- ness of the Holy Man, you would know all about being a good manager." The Khan awoke, and at once the drum of preparation sounded. The Khan Sahib went to the tomb of the Lord of Journeysi and wrapping^ 1A« a halter in token of his chadar round his neck, acknowledged his abject submission, Cf. NO. i. fault and made an offering.
NOTE.— The inundition canals in the Multan Province are etpected to flow only in the hot weather, when the Chenfn and the Indus are in fl >od : but by care and skilful cont ri v- nnce, e.g., by building dams in creeks, it is often possible to arrange for some of th«m to run in the cold weither also. Of course in this arid tract a ruler who makes the most of the canals is a good ruler.
In the time of Bahawal Khan the Indus ran down the middle of the Thai, and wag joined by the Chenab near Uch, and a system of canals, the disused channels of which can still be seen, led the water over the southern tahslli of the modern districts of Muzaffar- garh and Dera Ghazi Khan. The Indus left its old bed suddenly about 1787 to follow a course ' approximating to the present channel.
STORY No. 5.
THE EXPIATION OF A SIN.
Bahawal Khan was a very religious and generous man, a servant of
God. One day he spat towards the west in the direction of the Kibla.*
Bahawal KhSn was greatly distressed at this dis-
•The temple at Mecca. respect for the Kibla, and, summoning the learned, he asked their advice, as to what charity or other good work he should do as a penance. He gave the learned many presents and had texts repeated, but his heart was not satisfied. The Khan said " Summon AJaulvi Ahmad and bring him here, he will tell me how to ease my heart." They summoned Maulvi Ahmad. Maulvi Ahmad said " This sin is not to be ex- piated by good works or texts. Butf verily if you
fAlbatta han. ^^ ^Q crown from your head and lick up the spittle
yourself then God may pardon you, for He is the Lord. The Kh5n obeying the word of the Maulvi took off his crown and with his own lips licked up that spittle as it lay on the ground. And then his heart was at rest.
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STORY No. 6.
*
HOW BAHAWAL HAN UNITED A PAIR OF LOVERS.
Ikk dihare shikar te Khan venda pea ha, rah de vich ikk pulianf tana tandi hai. Khan Sahib ku anda dekhke puliani uria sattke, Khan.
de ghore de ihabbfl kfl chambar gal. Khan Jhabbu- both reins. ,?_ •.„ , _J _, ,. .^^ ;= u C
puchha tfl kya ahdl h£? O chup kar gai te
akheus, Khan Sal §pne han te hatth la dekb. Trae varS K|ian puchha ; trae pherg iho jawab dittus. Khan Sahib lokS kantX puchha, e kya ahdi h6 ? Lokaakhea, Gvharlb nawaza, phatti hoi h£ hikk jane nal dhakkea* pea. I da dil h£ ht( de nal. E Oho patta* dendi 6, jo Khan Sahib da dil
k^hl nal hosi, yad devendJ h6. Khan Sahib hfl
'£ffl£y&^ denikahwale k« saddk^ dher sara ruplya deke during which a divorced tJkaniX tglak diwaeus, te yar Q de kiX kaid kanfl Muhammadan woman chhorke, puliani de hawale kitus, kujh rupiya vl
dittus. Vallf miad kan« pichhe S da nikah parhaeus.
•Dhukkea probably. Dhuk is pain, love* • torments. — A. J. O' BRISN.
Dhakkea is P. P. of dhakkaa, to imprison. The context shews that the lover was m prison. Either rendering serves.— F.W. S.
STORY No. 7.
BAHAWAL KHAN AND THE WEAVERS.
Bahawal Khan hikk phSrl Dhake de jangal vich shikSr tS 5ya.' Dhake vich pauli bahu vaste hann. Khan de nal shikar vich unh3 kanu shlh marij pea. Ktan hukm kits pauliS kfl jo kujh mangan heve, mang ghinno. PauliS akhea, Sardar d5 ditta diwSya sabh5 kujh h$, iho kujh mangde hain, jal d! tani vunno, vun»i6, jai di nS vunno, n2 vunno, Khan khil pea, je tusS kai jagir mangSha, e kI5 ahde ho. UnhS akhea, ihl patte di lor h6, bei kai lor nahl. Khan manzQr kita,
Dhaka originally means custons and has become a place-name,
H. A.R.
Mangoha is 2nd p. pi. of past conditional (see page 51, Revised Glossary) *' if you weres to have asked for some jagTr.'1
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STORY No. 6.
HOW BAHAWAL KHAN UNITED A PAIR OF LOVERS.
One day as the Khan was going shooting, a weaver woman was preparing woof on the road. Seeing the Khan coming she threw away her spindles and seized the reins of the Khan's horse. The Khan asked *' What do you say ? " She became silent, then said, " Khan Sahib, put your hand on your heart." Three times the Khan asked : all three times she gave this reply. The Khan Sahib asked the people what she was saying. The people said, " O cherisher of the poor, she is in love with a man who is in prison. Her heart is with him. She means that perhaps the Khan Sahib is in love with somebody, and is reminding him of it."
The Khan Sahib sent for her husband, and giving him much money procured her divorce. And he released her lover from prison and made him over to the weaver woman, and gave them some money too. Then after the appointed term he had them married.
NOTK. — I had just translated this story and Stepped out on to the verandah of the rest-house when a woman accompanied by husband, lover and their friends appeared with a petition of this kind. I had the example before me of the proper course to follow, but fearcl it would make the Deputy Commissioner's divorce court too popular; so, directing the husband to divorce his wife, sent the case to a local magnate to fix the amount to be paid by the lover in compensation.— F. W. S.
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Under Muhamnaadan Law a woman has no right to a divorce. The story brings out the Khan's powerlessuess to obtain the wife's divorce from her husband until be has
purchased it.
H. A. R.
STORY No. 7.'
BAHAWAL KHAN AND THE WEAVERS.
BahSwal Khan once came shooting in the Jungles at Dhaka, where many weavers dwell. While out with the Khan the weaver* killed a tiger. He said to the weavers, " Ask whatever you wish. " The weavers said " By your kindness we have everything; we want only one thing : that we should weave woof oply for such as we wish " The Khan laughed—" Why don't you ask for a jaglr, what is this you are saying, 'r They said " We want this boon, and nothing else"; and the Khan granted it.
Nots.-This story poiott to the oppression of weavtrs by the zaralndars.
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STORY No. 8.
THE QURESHlS' FEAST.
Shaikh Nur Muhammad te Makbul Muhammad, Qureshi, jinhSd! aul§d d§ ghar Thana Qureshi 6, dohe Wazlr hai-in, Khan Bafcawal Khan Indl=ofhim. de. Indl shad! kill hai-i, Shaikh Haidar Bakhsh
?Pne puttr dl tahor dl Vad4a kharch kltonhe, joyous occasion, most Kai dushman, mauqa pakar, Khan Sal de aggo commonly of course a vanj gilla kKa, tede wazir tede Miazane kvjf ejiha marriage. kharab kitonhe, ' jo zarde ' dl thai! galiS vich
takkS vatto koi nah? ghinnda. Khan ku ranj aya. Uhl vele tiar! shadi Qureshi de utte cha kitus. Koi Qureshia da khairkhwah vich khara ha ; hW drukke tikhe tikhe Qureshia ku khabar vanj ditti, jo Khan hi waste anda pea. Marka Qureshi sunke e hal, dadbg m^jhe thi gae : bee amir, musaddl, jehre shadi te ™ kandh6 hain* unhS akhea mCjhe na thI5 ; assS janS
assembly or
H. PHILBY. ate Khan jane. Jehre vele Khan aya, amir musaddl Musaddi=an accountant salam de waste aggo gae ; pet de utte kapre 0Kandkha = wedding guest, baddhonhe dard pet d! bimati kanS mflh kaure % karke, Khan de salam kitonhe. Khan unha
dl behrl shakal dekhke, hal puchha, tuhadda kifl behra rang 6 ? Unrig akhea " tedi sir bakht kff dua kar rahe* hai,
, ,
Punjab. gave shorve pilwake, dard pet da dast shuru
hogea. Khan da pahila khial kavarwala dafa
thfgea; Qureshia marke kfl akheus medi badnami kar ghatte heve. Apne ^hazane kaniX ruplya deke, amira de dad da khana pakaeonis.
THE QURESHIS1 FEAST,
STORY No. 8.
THE QURESHIS1 FEAST.
Shaikh Ndr Muhammad and Makbal Muhammad Qurgshl, whose descendants live at Thara QureshI, were both Khan Bahawal Khan's Wazlrs. They* made the circumcisicn-feast of their son Shaikh Haidar Bakhsh, and spent much money. Some enemy took the opportunity to go and complain before the Khan Sahib, that his Wazirs had so spoiled his Treasury, that nobody in the streets would pay a ha'penny for
a platter of zarda.f The Khan was angry and im-
meet "^hee ^tc'^worth'a rccd>ately prepared to start for the feast at Qurgshl, mpee a than. Among the bystanders vras a well-wisher of the
Qureshis, who hastened and told them privately
why the Khan was coming. When they heard this, the Qureshis were much troubled, but their guests said to them. " Be not troubled ; we will settle matters with the Khan." When the Khan arrived, the guests, those of position and of clerkly rank, went out to receive him ; they wrapped clothes round their stomachs, and making wry faces as from stomach-ache, paid their respects to the Khan. The Khan seeing their sorry appearance
asked the reason " Why are you so pale ?" They
noHafVef ftffifjifi «P!»ed ' ' ™* * V'VT f^T/ ^rJ™ Pr°"
eat it. - perity ; but your Wazlr has treated us like peasants
and given us a beef stew at the feast ; and we have got diarrhosa."
The Khan's original angry intentions were staved off, and he said to the company of Qureshis that they had disgraced him. Giving money from his own Treasury he had cooked for them a feast fit to set before gentlemen.
•Nur Muhammad and Makbul Muhammad were brothers living together, and Haidar Bakhsh the son of one of them. Owing no doubt to the joint family system, the people of the Punjab describe relationships very loosely, as all English residents of the Province know. It is interesting to note that MultunI, unlike Urdu and Punjabi, has a special word, sotr, for cousin, different from the word for brother, but it is not always used, as it has a more distant and less friendly signification than bhra. The neutral word is tQtr*bhr3 as contrasted with sakka-bhru.
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STORY NO. 9.
STORIES OF MUZAFFAR KHAN:
Muzaffar Khan Saddozai, jo Multan da Nawab ha, Muzaffargarh da1
k6t vl flhl da banaea hoea he. Vadda changa adml ha, Khuda da yad karn-
wala ha, Hajl ha, adalatl ha, jiw£ jo jehre dihare kot Muzaffargarh daaira
AiriUfoundations. ghattan lagge, gh*n aknea, 6 jana pahila sill rakhg
Ghattan=to make, lay. jal di namaz ate tanajjad kaza na h5i hove, ate jari
Tahajjad«=an additional vl hfl kanfl na thel hove. Kahe jawab nS ditta.
add-on ^of°the dfivT' a'" 3^an S§hib 3P' B.ismillah karks» sil^ rakhi tg poiBt'e°dn ti°mcSeforVepray" akheus — pihare balig thiwan de kantf ajj tai mal or. To observe tahaj- kar.u na namaz kaza the!, na tahajjad, a'e na mal jad js ^nafil, to observe kanff J5ri thel, I ve!e Khan de miXride kanfl peti "TallomV/Persian fa!. talwar nikalpai ; talwar aire vich clhai pal. Khan H. PHILBY. akhea hi kot te larai kadahl na thisl kiujo e pal talwar 4ahan di dassendi he". Bea vatt darakht kikkar da pachadl bah kot d6 nal honda ha, hu de utte hill, lal'i marke, kbawan a babti. Khan akhea, e b6i pal h6 ; jo log vaste hi shahr de, khattsin Disiwar-distant trade. ^fhar» ate khasin andar. Disawar ajj"tal * Muzaffargarh ko! nahi, te larai bi kai na pai.
Log ajj tai Muzaffar Khan di kabr te (j5 Multan de kille de andar h£) yakln rakhdin ; iekar kai k& maror d^are di ave, to kapra pussahe, Muzaffar Khan di kabr dl ghattke vail o marorwala pake, summh- thinde. Huku maror di khair avendl he1. Jalku vare di mardr hove, 6 daga kabr nal kachke, gall vich cha paindcj huku khair a vendi he.
Muzaffargarh Klian jehrg dihare hajj te gea ha, Bahawalpar vich Bahawal Kian de kol vanj lattha. Galhl karan de vele Bahawal Khan puchcha, kunjia ^Ijazang dia kaikS dittl vendln? Muzaffar Klian akhea, PuttrS ku. Bahawal Khan akhea dadha behra kamm kits vende e, nahl jande jo aksar badshahg ku puttr mare ghatdin ? Muzaffar^ Khan akhea, me4e puttr unha vicho nahl, ki8 jo mal siwa wazu de, apnl trlmat nal katha kadahl nahl thea.
f^St^SS!^ WaSh" Bahawal Khaa akhea, bhala, yad rakhl. Jehre ' Rakhi, polite imperative. vgl6 Muzaffar Khan hajj kanff vail aya, Qhl BahawalpQr vich a lattha. Muzaffar Khan de puttr utthahl BahawalpQr BSH-=(i) agricultural ser- vich p€shwai waste anke, Bahawal Khan de rubaru vant, (a) brother(in conversa- piu de per chume, ate kunjia vl aggo rakhdit-
0* tW° riderS il*' a ahawal an skhe5' tau bel! sach
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STORY No. 9.
STORIES OF MUZAFFAR KljAN.
Muzaffar Khan Saddozal was Nawab of Multan ; he was also the builder of Muzaffargarh Fort. He wa3 a very good man ; he remem- bered God, he had been on the pilgrimage, and he was just. On the day when the foundations of Muzaffargarh were laid, he said " Let that man first lay a brick, who has never neglected the appointed prayers, or the additional prayer, and who has never committed adultery." No one spoke. The Khan Sahib himself laid the first brick in the name of God, saying "Since I grew up, I have never forgotten to repeat the appointed prayers or the additional prayer, and I have never committed adultery."
At this moment the Khan's sword-belt slipped from his shoulder and the sword fell into the trench. The Khan said "There will never be a fight at this fort, as is shown by this omen of the sword falling." Moreover, a kite had killed a maina and come to eat it on a kikar tree by the western wall of the fort. The Khan said "This is another omen ; the people who dwell in this city shall earn frorn outside and eat inside." Now to this day there has never been any remote trade at Muzaffargarh, and there has never been a fight.
To this day people have a very high regard for the grave of Muzaffar Khan in the fort at MultSn. If any one has fever every day, then his clothes are moistened and placed at Muzaffar Khan's grave ; the patient puts them on and goes to sleep and recovers. He who has fever every second day measures off a piece of thread along the grave, wears it round his neck, and recovers.
When Muzaffar Khan went on the pilgrimage (to Mecca), he stayed with Bahawal Khan in BahSwalpur. As they were talking, Bahawal Khan asked to whom he had . given his Treasury keys. Muzaffar Khan replied to his sons. Bahawal Khan said " That's a very foolish thing, don't you know that kings are generally murdered by their sons ? ' Muzaffar Khan said " My sons are not that sort, for without purification I never approached my wife." Bahawal Khan said, " Very well, re- member what 1 say." On his return from the pilgrimage Muzaffar Khan again stayed in Bahawalpur ; and his sons came to meet him there, and in the presence of Bahawal Khan kissed their father's feet and laid the keys before him. Bahawal Khan said " Brother, you spoke the.truth.".
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STORY No. iO.
MUZAFFAR KHAN AND KARBAL, THE STRONG MAN.
Zardas»dish 'of rice with sugar and all kinds of fruits and twice the usual allowance of ghi.
De = enormous dish.
Nawab Muzaffar Khan, NawSb Multan de, puttre di shadi kltl. Barha kaumS PathanS de kS apni shadi te kandha dekar, apni ja barha dihare umde umde khane pakakar, khavenda riha. Chekri diharg ikk deg zarde da pakakar, Karbal Khan pahlwan jo ha, hvf de ghar patteus. Karbal Khan ku kawar laggl, naukare deg chawan walg ktt akheus "Vail, ghinn vanjo, Khan do, ate Khan kff akho e zal de ghar rakh. Jekar mal bhra hovaha, maiku binh^ bhrawa vangS apni ja te saddke roti khaweha. Nimhi ghinnda." Muzaffar Khan kan naukare" deg v! vanj ditti, ate 5 saneha jehra Karbal Khan akhea ha, 6 vi dittonhe. Khan Sahib Muzaffar Khan ap Karbal 'Khan kff vanke, Karbal Khan ki! manSeus, te Karbal Khan ktt nal apni ja ghinnaea. Chhe degS zarde diS pakakar Karbal Khan k8! khawaeonis. Karbal Khan chhe dega khake, dakhar vi na ditta.
Manana = to soothe or persuade an angry man.
Dakhar «= sound emitted by a full man.
STORY No. 11.
MORE STORIES OF KARBAL KHAN, THE STRONG MAN.
Karbal Kh§n gharib bhukkha ha, pahlwan vadda zorwala ha, jehre vele kahl di shad! d! khabar pahttdi haus, vanjke, shadi d! sabhl rdtf pakhl hoi zor nal kha venda ha. U de dar kanfl koi iX de kol nS venda ha. Tore sau jawan hovinhS, ta vi hS kfl kabu na kar saggde hain. Muzaffar Khan k?fvanjkel5g fariad dende hain. Muzaffar Khan ahda ha, ukQ vanjo pakkar ghinnao. JSgde vele tS o 15kg kanQ dadha ha, nS Macha-large strong pakkrij saggd5 ha, mache utte sutte hoe klX rasse cal baddhke, macha chake, Khan do ghinn julde hain. Rah de vich chohar chhitakkar dekhke, jo shor macha dende hain, Karbal Khan di nind ukir vendl hai. Karbal Khan zor nal utthikar, rasse tror ghatd§ ha, te lokS kantt nikal v6nda, KadahS Khan taltor lokS nS n;e saggea ha,
charpoy.
Chohar chhitakkar — little boys, (used together as a collective noun.)
Taitor = upto. No o carry off ; saggan be able, cf. sakna,
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STORY No. 10.
MUZAFFAR KHAN AND KARBAL, THE STRONG MAN.
Nawab Muzaffar Khan, Nawab of Multan, celebrated the marriage of his sons. He invited the twelve tribes of Fathans to the marriage, and feasted them on the best of food for twelve days. On the last day, he made ready a large vessel of zarda, and sent it to the house of Karbal Khan, the strong man. Karbal Khan became angry, and said to the servants carrying the vessel, " Take it back to the Khan and tell him to give it to his wife. If I were really a brother, he would have in- vited me to his own house like his other brethren, and entertained me there. I will not take it." The servants went and gave the vessel to Muzaffar Khan and they gave Karbal Khan's message too. Khan Sahib Muzaffar Khan came in person to Karbal Khan and calmed his anger and took him to h:s own house. He made ready six degs of the zarda, and set them before Karbal Khan ; and Karbal Khan ate them without even a sigh of repletion.
STORY No. ix.
MORE STORIES OF KARBAL KHAN, THE STRONG MAN.
Karbal Khan was poor and hungry, and a very strong man. When the news of any one's marriage fe.ist reached him, he would go and forcibly eat up all the food prepared for the feast. Nobody dared go near him ; although a hundred in their prime were there, they were no match for Karbal Khan. They would go and complain to Muzaffar Khan ; and Muzaffar Khan would tell them to seize him and bring him up* When he was awake, he was stronger than the people, and could not be taken ; but when he was asleep on his charpoy, they would bind him with ropes, and carry him to the Khan. On the road, Karbal Khan would wake up from the noise made by little boys who saw him. Raising himself, and exerting his strength, he would break th« ropes and escape, People never succeeded in bringing him before the Khan,
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STORY No. 12.
KARBAL KHAN AND THE WRESTLER.
Shah ShGJa Wall Kabul da, 36 e mulk Kabul nal ha, Shujaba3 vich ay§. Hfl de nal hikk pahlwan ha. ShOja Kh§n Hakim Shujabad de kfl akhea, tnede pahlwan nal koi pahlwan kushti kare. Karbal Khan Patban, jo Multan vich rahnda ha, gharib dadha ha, te jawan dadha zorwaia ha. Shuja Khan ffku akhea, tQ badshah de pahlwan nal liehri kar. Karbal Khan akhea, mal behranwala koi nimhl : badshah zor dekhe, ta mal hazir bS. Iha chob sharoane
Chuna gach=mortar. Wali'jo chune gach thalle «e khari h6, bca zor
nal zaml ich dabadeve, te mat vi. Pahile badshah de pahlwan ch5b
kfl pakarke, zor nal zaml ich dahaea, Hikk
Chi»ppa=a hand's breath, fchappa 2aml vich chdb 1ahi gai< Vall Karbal
Khan da vara aya. Karbal IChan chsb ktt
pakarke zor laeus, gith pakkl zaml vich chob lah gal. Badshah akhea,
e kar naM, apat ich zor lawm. Karbal Khan akhea, e vi mede sir kfl
cha ghutte, te ma! vi hfl da sir cha ghutta, badshah zor dekh ghinne.
Pahile badshah de pahlwan Karbal Khan da sir chambg nal pakarea te
Ana=eye-baH;Chambi= zor nal ghutteus, Karbal Khan de ane th5re jehe
band. joah vich ayen, d^tha na. Vall Karbal Khan eta
Beja=brains. b§f ay5. Karbal' i£han badshah de pahlwan da
sir kfl chamba ghittus, ate z5r laeus: beja badsbah de pahlwan da,
anggll kantl bahar nikalJyft, ki marges.
STORY No. 13.
THE DIWAN AND THE ADULTERER.
Dlwan Sawan Mall k\i y§rS nal dadhi kavvar hai-i, Jehre ve'e koi trlmat mard pakkrlj povin ha, unha d! jange vich rassa ghattke, dand panjali hoe nal chabaddha^a. Cande ktJ Jatt kanff drukkaea, jo wahi de utte akhir marwanjinha, Iw?, jekar koi yarg kil kattba dekhke marghattea ha, ate vanjke reppat kareha, jo mal kutti te kutta marghitta, Dlw§n Sahib khush thinda ha, kol pakar khan karan di na kargnda ha. Hikk dihare ikk Jatt kiS rann nal pakarkei jo yari karende hai-in, Dlwan Sahib 'kan ghinnae'ihain. Diwan Sahib akhea, *Kiu! Ve Jatta! Taikvf Sawan Mall na sujjda ha, tau ganda kamm kita. Jatt akhea, Gliaiib nawaza ! lift vele shaitan maikti ehija andakita, jd maikvt Khuda visargea, tS Dlwan Sahib di ja kittha e ? Diwan Sahib kG tars age§ galh Jatt of bhan gal Jatt k8 chhordittus, te aggo waste loba khaddaeus.
*NOTE.— Kiu ' v*jA ' it the equivalent, in vernacular, of the Englishman's |J Look here.'*
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STORY No. 12.
KARBAL KHAN AND THE WRESTLER.
Shah Shaja, Governor of Kabul, when this country was attached to Kabul, came to Shujabad. With him there was a wrestler. He said to Shaja Khan of Shujabad, fl Let some champion wrestle with my champion." Now Karbal Khan Pa^han, who dwelt in Multan,
ThU meaning of eharib d******* w J** h.c. WES told a,°d VV.af Very stronf' i» very common -lUbmis- ShQJ5 Khan told him to wrestle with the king's »ive. champion. Karbal Khan answered, " I am no
A. O'BRIBN. wrestler, but if the king wants to see strength, then I am at his service. Take the pole of the reception tenti which stands on a mortared floor , let him shew his strength by driving it into the ground and I will also." The king's champion was the first to take the pole and drive it into the ground. It was driven in four fingers' breadth. Then it was Karbal ^Chan's turn. Karbal Khan took the pole and put forth his strength and it was driven in a full span. The king said " This is no test ; let them exert their strength against each other." Karbal Khan said " Let him squeeze my head and then I will squeeze his head ; the king will then see a trial of strength.'* First the King's champion took Karbal Khan's head in his hand and squeezed. Karbal JChan's eyes stcod out a little, but he did not fall. Then came Karbal JChan's turn. He took the head of the king's champion in his hand and squeezed, until the brains oozed out through his fingers, and the king's champion died.
STORY No. 13.
THE DlWAN AND THE ADULTERER.
Dfwan Sawan Mall was exceeding wrath with adulterers. If ever a man and a woman were taken together, he would have their thighs bound with rope to an ox yoke, and make a Jatt drive the oxen at a run until at last they died. In the same way, if anyone seeing adulterers together slew them, and then reported that he had killed a dog and a bitch, the Diwan was pleased and did not 'punish the slayer. One day they brought before the Diwan a Jatt taken in adultery with a woman.' The Diwan said, 4I Oh Jstt, do not you know Sawan Mall, that you have done 1his wicked thing ?" The Jatt replied, " Oh cherisher of the poor, when a devil came and succeeded in making me forget God, how should I remember the Diwao ?" The Diwan was pleased with this reply, and had mercy oh the Jatt. He set him at liberty, and made him promise amends for the future.
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STORY No. 14*
THE DlWAN AND A MURDERER.
Samti hikk mauza hai, Rangpur de rah de utte.w Hi de vich Zam5- dar log Khaire vaste hain. U ja de utte Abdur
Khaira, name of tribe. Rahman name hikk maulvi bahnda ha. Diwan
Sawan Mall jehre ve^e daure te anda ha hu da para lahnda, Samti
hunda ha. Kai zamldar dittba Diwan Sawan Mall kahT zaniidar nal
galh nahl karenda. Maulv! nal galhl kaienda he te apne nal palang
te charha bulenda he. Hi ghairat kanu hx* Jatt
Maulvi kff marghitta ; ate drukke tikha tikha reppat
Diwan Sahib kfl vanj dittus. H\j( ve'e Diwan Sahib chor ka saza thorl denda ha, jehre api apne gunah di reppat van kare. KliQne kQ vl saza di sahi hund! hai, iwaste reppat vanj kitus. Diwan Sahib sun nan rial dadha arnran klta, la jo rcdittus. Akheus, 6 kambakhta! sau Jatt kt( marghatteha, maiku e jehra ghamm na aveha. Alim ku marghattea, ejiha admi itli muddat parhe, tai vele ejiha alim thisi. Taikx! mal saza di kai takhflf nahl denda. Hukm dittus, ki hG kfl kath marghatto. Itni tal maulvi de waris, jo chhote chhote bal hain, unh? anke Diwan Sahib kan dahl thel. Diwan Sahib hi* khQni dia zamina sablie Maulvi de puttra de nam patta likh dittus, ate khuni kite hukm phasi dedittus. WarisS Maulvi de akhea, 1 da bazt( sakQ de^ assS ap, jiwe
marzi asi, uwe marghattstf. Diwan Sahib bazu B^u-person.
UnhS dadhe azab nal hvXkif marghitta. KaT vele kutte kan«
patt vende hain, kai velekann te nak kappghinndS
Azab-torture. hai'^ jwg d§(jha kh5ja karke marionhe. Zaml
ajj ta! unha di aulad Samti vich khandi andi h6.
STORY No. 15.
THE DlWAN AND A ROBBER.
Diwan Sawan Mall adalat de vich, 1 de utte Mussalman Hindu sab hai-in. Chore kS dadhi saza denda ha, atS yare kQ maraghattan te thinda ha, ahda ha, kutti te kutta mari, mal dadha khush hS. Hindu Mussalman di adat hai, jo kowaria dhia chirk tal bilai baithe rahnde hann. Diwan Sawan Mall e adat unhe loka di sakht hukm dekar vanjva ditti. Ranjit Singh i kamm waste Divvan Sahib kiJ vadda khush thea ate dadha in5m ditta. Diwan Sahib di Sahibi vich, e galh dadhi umdi hai, jo chor luttanwale ku musafir luttlnda, jekar Diwan de na di chor kit drohi cha ghatteha ta chor chori kanu khar venda ha. Mal luttea hoea vala denda ha.. Hikk dihare hikk rabi ku chor anke luttan lagga. Rahi shode Di^ln de na drohi ghatti chor kif. Chor luttan kan« rukkgea, te akheus, tai kfl vatt drohi he Diwan Sawan Mall di, je tu mede utte kuki na O jana jehr€ vele sharr ich gea, Diwan kiX vanke dha ditlus. Diwan ?ahib chor left pakkaraea. Chor apna hai likhwaea. Gharib nawaza ! Mal hi ku beshakk luttan lagga ham. I tede na di maikQ drobi ghatti he ! Malhiktt mal vi val'aditte ate chhorditte/fedf drohi mannke, mal vatt hlku tede nS di drohi ghatti hai-i, jo mede utte kuki na. Sardara, mal tede na dl drohi manni, te I na manni, Saikar Diwan dl i galh te khush thigea, chor chhordittus,
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STORY No. 14.
THE DlWAN AND A MURDERER.
is a village on the road to Rangpar, inhabited by zamindars called Khairas. A Maulvi, named Abdur Rahman, used to live there. When Diwan Sawan Mall came on tour, he used to halt at the Maulvi's camping ground at Samtl. Some zamindar saw that Di#an Sawan Mall never spoke with the zamindars, only with the Maulvi, whom he used to have seated on a charpoy beside himself. The Jaft killed the Maulvi from jealousy, and ran as fast as he could to report it to the Diwan ; for at that time the Diwan used to give lenient punishment to a thief who came forward of his own accord and reported his crime. Besides, a murderer was sure of punishment ; and hence the Jatt went and acknowledged his offence. The Diwan on hearing his story, was very sorrowful and wept. He said, " O unhappy man, if you had murdered a hundred Jat^s, it would not have caused me such grief. You have slain a learned man ; only such a man by [spend- ing much time in study will become so learned. I will not abate one tittle of your punishment." And he ordered that the prison- er should be put in the stocks. Meanwhile the Maulvi's heirs, little boys, came and laid their complaint before the Diw§n ; and the Diwan transferred all the murderer's lands to the Maulvi's sons, and ordered him to be hanged. The Maulvi's heirs said " Give him over to us, that we may put him to death as we please." The Diwan gave him over, and they put him to death with great torture. They had him torn by dogs, they cut off his ears, they cut off his nose, and did him to death with torments. And their descendants enjoy his land in Samti to this day.
STORY No. 15.
THE DiWAN AND A ROBBER.
Mussalmans and Hindus alike were pleased with Diwan Sawan Mall's administration of justice. He dealt out severe punishment to thieves, and he was pleased if anybody slew adulterers, saying " If you kill a bitch and a dog, I am very pleased." It was the custom of Hindus and Muhammadans to keep their daughters unmarried too long, and the Diwan by stern orders changed this custom. Ranjit Singh was very pleased with the Diw5n for this, and gave him a large reward. Under the Diwan' s rule there was an excellent custom, that if a traveller being robbed, invoked the Dlwan's name on the robber, the robber would desist, and return the stolen property. One day a robber came up and began to rob a traveller. The unfortunate traveller invoked the name of the Diwan, ancl the robber desisted, saying " On you also I invoke the name of Diw§n Sawan Mall, not to complain about me." When the traveller got to the city, he went to the Diwan, and laid a complaint, and the Diwan had the robber arrested. The robber made his statement, " O cherisher of the poor, it is true that I was robbing him ; he invoked your name, I acknowledged it, let him go, and returned his property. "Then I invoked your name, not to complain about me, O Sardar, I acknowledged your name, he did not,*' When the Diwan taard this, he was pleased, and let the thief go.
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STORY No. 16.
THE DIWAN AND A FAKlR.
DlwSn Sahib dl sahiH de vele Muttan de vich ikk fakir rahnda ha.
Hit fakir d§ naukar jangal kanfl gohe chhunke
Kite-waste. fakir de dhQg kltg jarwaze kanfl an langea.
Sipahi chflngewale hfl kanff masfil rnangea. O akhea e mede vechan kite nahf, jo ma! taikft masal dewa, fakir de dhue kite hinn, Sipahi gohe fakir de be!e kanu khass ghidde.
Divvan Sawan^ Mall de pet ich pir pai gal. DadhS blmar thlgea. Dawa darn kol na lagga. Chhekir lu fakir kan chawake ap ku gbinnaea, jo maikiX dua kar ; mal dadha ranjul ha. Hikk thall sone di morhe «il, ate hikk thai! *kachoria di, fakir de aggo rakheus, te akheus, O fakir sa!, e te^i nazar 6, Fakir thai! morhewali vichS hikk morh chake dand heth ditlus, akheus, to dbat e; khawan nab! ande ;
Dh5t=metaK chaghinn, mede kamm da nahl. Bei thai! kachori
wall fakir de agge rakheus, akheu?, sal, e khawan di shai haj. Fakir godri vichft shisha khad ghidda, hikk kacbori chake shishe de m?(h kiX malleus. SI Isha ka!a thigea, fakir akhea e thindhi shai, shishe kff maila kardittis, mede dil kfl kharab kardesi, hi k\5 vi cha ghinn. Fakir g5dri vich8 sukka tukkar khaddke, shisha de muh kx! mareus, shisha saf thlgea. Akheus, Diwan bai, asade waste sukka tukkar changa he, jo shishe dilwale kvJ saf rakhe, Diwan Sahib galh vich kapre pake fakir de pairS dhata, fakir sal dua kit! ; Diwan Sahib MX 8hl vele khair agai. Chungi de masul hamesha waste fakir de bele ktf bakhsh kardittus,
*Kachoti, a kind of pastry made of flout and bruised paly, fried in ghi or oil.
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STORY No. 16.
THE DIWAN AND A FAKIR.
A fakir lived in Multan in the time of the DlwSn. The fakir's servant collected cakes of cow-dung in the jungle and was bringing them for his master's fire through the gate of the citv. The octroi peon asked for the dues, and he said " These are not for sale, that I should pay dues, they are for a fakir's fire" ; but the peon took away the cakes forcibly.
Diwan Sawan Mall got a severe pain in his stomach, and was very ill. Medicines and remedies were of no avail. At last he had himself carried to that fakir, and begged, " Pray for me, as I am in great pain." He placed before the fakir one tray of gold mohurs, and another of pastry, and said they were an offering. The fakir took up a mohur from the first tray, bit it, and said "This is metal ; I can't eat it; take it away ; it's no use to me." The Diwan placed the other tray before the fakir, and said, " Sir, this is something to eat." The fakir took a mirror from his patched garment and rubbed one cake over the front. The mirror turned black, and he said '« This is greasy, it has dirtied my looking-glass, it will soil my heart, take it away too." He drew forth from his patched garment a bit of dry bread, rubbed the. mirror, and it became clean, He said " Oh Diwan Sahib, for me dry bread is best, which will keep clean the mirror of the soul." The Diwan, wrapping his *cloth round his neck, fell at the fakir's *Cf. No. i. jeet. tj,e fakir blessed him and the Diwan was
cured forthwith. And he exempted the fakir's servant from octroi for ever.
'.—The hero of this itory u of course & Muhainnoadan holy man.
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STORY No. 17.
GUL NASIM SHAH, THE HERETIC.
Ghazi _Khan Nawab ha, Dera Ghazi Khan da. Mulk Badshah Dilhi de nal ha. Uda Gaman Sachcha wazir ha. Ghazi Khan da Gul Nasim name Pir ha. O mazhab Shia rakhda ha, Yar Paighambar Sahib de kfl jo trai yar vadde ban, bura ahda ha. Mulla hfl waqt de sunke, Ghazi
.... Khan kff kv(k dittonhe, jo e kamm achchha nahl.
l\uk = a complaint. ,=rr - < > •> \ * /-^n - -m r-«- -\-
Shariat vich saza de dad e. Ghazi Khan Pir de
Jihatir koi hukm na denda ha. Akhir, MullS Badshah de kol Dilhl vich
vanjke, arzl ditti. Badshah hflkff talab kita. Parwana Badshah Ghazi
Khan Pir kit na vanjan ditta. GamiJ Sachcba Khan kfl akhea, e kamm
changa nab!, tamll hukm Badshah da kar, Gul Naslm Shah kQ ravana
kar Dilhide. Ghazi Khan akhea, ! zaban nal mal
Sa^dee, for eadhea he. ^ ^ pir kar saddee, kiwe patthS. Gamau Khan
akhea, hi zaban kfl yad rakhi.
Badshah, der thivvan tamil kan\X, do sipahi patthe hukm nal, Gul Nasim Shah kfl ghinnao. Hun Ghazi Khan d*r kantJ tal ma tal na kar sakkda ha. Gul Nasim Shah kTK pakkaronhe. Ghazi Khan Pir kit pucha- wan ay§. Rukhsat kantK pichchhe, jehre ve'e pichchhS te vanjan lagge, zabau Ghazi Khan di band thigai. Gaman Sachcha hi ku apni gaih y5d diwai. Akhir hikk fakir de pas ghinn gae. Fakir jutti da kallar hff di zaban te mart a. Fakir akheus, Kea thi pea, jo Ghazi Khan kS hikk kur marea.
Gul Nasim Shah, Badshah de aggo mukkir gea, mal 5 kamm koi nahl karinda. Badshah mulwane kanif sabut mangea ; mullS sabut na de sakkde hain, kiu jo Ghazi Khan hfl mulk da badshah ha, hQ de d,ar kanfl gawai koi na deveha. Mulla munjhe thigae kalma parhan shura kitonhe. Rat ktf, khwab ich, hunhS k\i hukm thea, hi di jutti de vich kaghiz de utte, na likhe hoe YarS de ; vich site kare.
Fajir kif, kachehri vich, mulwane jutti chake aggo Badshah de satt ghatti. Badshah hi gustakhi kantf naraz thike, puchchha, kia kamm kifa heve? Unhe akhea, sal, sada sabut hi jutti vich 6. Jutti kG parea gea vicho kaghiz de utte nam likhe hoe nikalaye. Badshah hukm phasi da ditta, Gul Nasim Shah de waste, mulwane akhea : Sal, hukm de, Dera Ghazi Khan vich vanjke, phasi ditti vanje, ta jo bee lok dekhke samajh vanjinn, ki i gande kamm di saza he.
Dera Ghazi Khan vail aye; kai dihare Ghazi Khan hunhS kanilf mohlat ghiddi, bohut chara kitus, ki mede Pir kan\S tal van jo. Mulwane kai na manni ; Gul Nasim di janghS vich rasse ghattke dande panjali ditti hoe de nal baddhke dadhe kharabat nal ghil-ghilke marghittonhe*
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GUL NASlM SHAH, THE HERETIC.
QhazI Khan was Nawab of Dera Ghazi Khin, which was tributary to Delhi. His Wazlr was Gaman the True, and his Pir, Gal Naslm Shah, a Shla. Gul Nasim Shah was wont to speak ill of the Three* Friends of the Prophet. Hearing this, the Mullas
?f *• 'r6 ^p1^ *? •IWH : acco.rdjng
to the Law.t they said, he ought to be punished.
Through consideration for his Pir, Ghazi Khan li ioui" Iajfuhammadan re" Would give no order, and so at last the MulUs
went to Delhi and gave a petition to the Emperor.
The Emperor summoned Gul Naslm Shah, but Ghazi Khan would not allow the summons to reach his Pir. Gaman the True warned the Khan to obey the Imperial command and send off Gul Naslm Shah. Ghazi Khan replied " How can I send him when I call him Pir with this tongue ? " Said Gaman Khan, " Remember your tongue. "
The Emperor, .because of the delay in carrying out his order, sent two soldiers to bring Gul Naslm Shah. Ghazi Khan no longer dared to temporize, and Gul Nasim Shah was arrested. Ghazi Khan went to see off his Pir. After the leave-taking, as he was starting back, Ghazi Khan became tongue-tied. Gaman the True reminded him of what he had said. At last they took him to a Holy Man, who struck his tongue with the sole of a shoe, and said, " This has befallen Ghazi Khan because he told a lie."
Now before the Emperor, Gul Naslm Shah denied what he had done,1 and the Emperor called for proof from the Mullas. The Mullas could produce no proof ; Ghazi Khan ruled the land, and from fear of him no- body would give evidence. They were down-cast, and began to repeat the Creed. Then in a dream it was vouchsafed to them that the names of the Friends were written on a piece of paper
of coAurTe"k °f contempt> sewn into his shoe.J In the morning the Mqllas took the shoe into Court, and threw it before the
Emperor. The Emperor was angry at this impertinence, and asked for an explanation. They replied " Sire, in that shoe is our proof.'1, The shoe was torn open, and the paper with the names produced from inside. The Emperor ordered Gul Naslm Shah to be hanged. The Mullas begged, " Sire, order that he be hanged at Dgra Ghazi Khan, so that others may see, and understand that there is punishment for this blasphemy."
They returned to Dera Ghazi Kha°i vrhere Ghazi Khan got several days' respite from them and besought them much to pardon his Pir, But the Mullas would not hear of it. Passing a rope between Gul Naslm's legs they fastened it to a pair of yoked oxen ; then dragging him along the ground put him to death with great cruelty.
grazing.
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STORY No. 18.
LEARNING LOVE.
Hikk dhanwal manjhT charanwala jangal de vich, kandl darya di, ikk Fakir kfl ditthus, j5 unde kalme de
Dhanwa!-.a herdsman of zikf dg> machhea darya' dea bahar a paundea hain. Dhanwal soti manjhl di satt ghatli manjhl vends
Ajjar-ahcpherd of sheep kitus, Fakir de paire vanj pea ate akheus, maikfl « goats. vj jh5 rah fakiri di dass. Fakir akhea, vanj
pahile ishk kama ; pichhe vail a, tai vele taikil rah "or camel? dassesS. Dhanwal ravanathigea. Shahr de vich vanjke, ikk buddhri trimat ku akheus,_maiku ishk sikha. Budd^" khill pai ate akheus, I ghar vanj jo Badshah da" ghar hd, taikfl ishk sikhadesin. Dhanwal Badshah de andar haveii vich ^urea gea. Trimate, dekhan nal shor ghatt ditta, puchhone, tu klfl ay?. Akheus ma! ist.k lawan waste aea ha, Hikk trimat Badshah di, J5 dadhi sonhi hai-i,' 6 akhea — Bah thi, mal taikfl ishk sikbasa. Banhi kS akheus, vanj kati te kuhari cha ghinna, ma! ik^ ishk da sabak dewa. Kati ghinn ai Badsheh zadi akhea summ thi ma! taikfl khoha. Dhanwal summ thea. Badshah zadi hu kil cha kutha. Sandh bandh karke, banhi kvl akheus, khadd khatjtke, ik^ pur ghatt. Banhi h\5 kS pur ghatta. Thora jeha gosht kappke apne nal ghinn gai, Kassai kfl vanjke akheus, ki dQmbe da gosht he; maT nimhi khandi, bakkri de gdsht nal vattado. Bakri da gosht ghinn gai kassai kanu. Kassai gosht admi wala kai amir de bele ku dittus.
Bela-seryant. Amir di gharwali gosht da degra riddhdi baithl
R?ddhand=gstew. na'« PQi Phgran dg vele, hatth ku sekaeus.
Dui^spoon, Oo kiius ! vichS, kunni da gosht bolea — Yar kati
kohari kanti OO nah! kita, tQ thore jehe sek kanxl
oo pai kargndi. Gharwali hairan thi gai, taikft maikS sad4ke, e hal dikhaeonhe. Badshah kS khabar mili, degra mangwake Iho tamasha ap dittbo*. Puchheus, gosht kai kanvf ghidda heve ? Kassai pakkraeus, akheus' maiku1 hazur di banhi de gai he. Badshah ghar turea gea, iho hal chhebar puchhan kitus ; untie" sare gharwali sachi sachi galh dhanwal wall surmditti, Badshah b« k» khadd kanfc bahar kaddhake, tr de sandh bandh milake, sir dhar nal lake, dhi apni kS akheus, Uthi, hi di sare jan te hatth pher, ate bulhl kii chum cha. Dhi Badshah di . five" kita dhanwal, trapp deke, uthi khara thea ; ate drukk- Bu!hi=Hp9. ^- jj5e§^ gpne Fir kan van pahuta. Pir akhea
Shabash, yura ishk kamaeS ^t Hikk nazar kitus, dhanwal Fakir banngea*
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STORY No. 18.
LEARNING LOVE.
There was once a herd looking after buffaloes grazing in the jungle on the bank of the river ; and he saw a holy man, to whom the water monsters came out as he reiterated the Creed. Tlie herd threw away his stick and drove off the buffaloes. He went and prostrated himself at the holy man's feet, and cried " Shew me too this way of holiness." The holy man replied : " First experience love ; then come back, and I will shew you the way." The herd went away ; he came Into a city and said to an old woman " Teach me to love." The old woman laughed and said, " Go to this house, the king's house r they will teach you love." The herdsman went into the courtyard of the king's house ; and all the women seeing him cried out, asking why he had come. He replied, " I have come to practise love." One of the princesses, who was very beautiful, said, " Sit down, and I will teach you love.H She said to her maid, "Go and bring a knife and a hatcher, and I will give him a lesson in love. She brought a knife, and the princess said, '* Sleep, and I will kill you." He slept, and the princess killed him, After sever- ing his joints, she said to the maid " Make a hole and bury him." The maid buried him, but cut off a little of his flesh and took it away. She went to a butcher and said " This is meat from a fat-tailed sheep ; 1 do not eat it ; exchange it for some goat's meat ; " and she took the goat's meat from the butcher. The butcher gave that human flesh to a gentleman's servant. The gentleman's wife was sitting cooking the flesh in a cocking pot, and as she stirred the spoon, she burned her hand, and cried out. The piece of flesh in the pot then spoke, lt The lover did not cry out at the hatchet or the knife, you cry out at a little burn." The good wife was astonished, and called everybody, and Talks maika-to you and tojd them what had happened. The news reached
to me— a graphic idiom. ,, -s . . * \f « • • ,r
the King, who sent for the pot and himself saw the phenomenon. He asked « Where did you get the
flesh ? " He had the butcher arrested, and the butcher said, " 1 got it from the maid-servant of the princess." The king went to his private apartments and made enquiry into the matter ; all his womenfolk told him the full and true account of the herdsman. The king had him taken out of the hole, and putting his joints together, and the head on the trunk, said to his daughter, " Arise, pass your hand all over his body, and kiss him on the lips." The king's daughter did so; the herdsman leaping up stood there, then went straight to his Plr. The Plr said '* Well done j you have practised love full well,'' He looked upon him, aad the herd became a holy man,
36 MULTANi STORIES,
STORY NO. 19.
MIA SARANG AND A MIRACLE.
Kundai ikk shahr da nam he, Tahsil AHpQr de vich. Hi shahr dlikfc mai, Bhirai, zat di Jancjir, Sardar ha-I. Dadhl sakhi ha-i. Gharlb ISg, yatlm, andhe, muhlaj ide langar vichS rsti khande hain. Ay»
-i- * -II. ,„-.- sowall vj hi de dar kanfl khali r,S vends ha. Hi
uU = sawalkaranwu!u.
j. L-_U- ir j • - - u •" j- - <v t v.
di banni Kundai name haj, jinde nam kanu shahr
Kundai mashhur 6 ; ate hi waste e missal jag vich akhi vendi h£, J5 Khair Bhirai, nam Kundhai. I mai Bhirai de
Oh jamm de ve.Ie kanS Fakir ha, masti vich rahndi ha, jahan di Mbusbl ghami hi kvf kai na ha-I. 1 waste h« ktX Jattl
sa^dendi hain. Bahilf log hff kaniS dua mangke, Tattl^a man physically phal p5veilde ha-in. Hikk dihare, hi^k kirarl, J6
I shahr vich bahndi ha-I, fl da puttr da4ha blma^
thigea, fl kS dh§k ich ch§ke, Fakir kan ghinnai. Jehre ve!e Fakir de Icol al, bal df jind nitkalgai. Moe bal k\K Fakir de aggo samal ghittus, atg akheus, Fakir Sal mal bal plra de duai kite ghinnai ham, hatto bal
margea, mal hun tede dar kanfl roudl vanjS. Hfttto- suddenly, Ehuda da na mann, meda puttr jlnda karade. Fakir
ku rdndi tg tars aya, ikk kuttl Jundl jehi pai hai,
r Lundi-dockedJ C1r b^kG akheus, utthl mai kutti, tf* apna sah hi bal Lanfla the docked script. yich cb§ ghatt ' -Kutti u^thlkar, buthi apnl bal de
H. A. ROSB. ni\Xh te cha rakheus, kutti marpal^ bal jlnda utthl khara thea. Ajj tal hit kirar de aulad, jo
bind! kutti jtnda klti ha, inha de vadde kS Lund de nam kanfl mashhQr
hain, te hi shahr vich vaste hann. Jatti Sarang di fchangah Kundai
vich maujud hai, ajj tal log manotia manSnde
Manotl - vow, votive
offering.
MIA SARANG AND A MIRACLE; 37
STORY No. 19.
MIA SARANG AND A MIRACLE.
Xundai is the m/me of a village in the Alipur Tahsil. A lady named Bhjrai, Jaijdir by tribe, was its ruler. She was very generous ; the poor, the orphan, the blind, the needy, were fed from her kitchen. Not even a beggar went empty from her door. The name of her maid was Kundai, and after her the village is called Kundai, whence the common saying, " Bhirai's <:harity, and Kundai's fame. " In this lady's house a son was born, Mian Sarang. From the time of his birth he was holy; he burned in chastity ; for him the pleasures and sorrows of the world were not ; and people called him a saint. Many who craved boons from him were satisfied. One day the son of a Hindu woman dwelling in that village was very sick ; so, putting him on her hip, she took him to the holy man. When she reached him the babe's breath had ceased. She laid the dead babe before the holy man and said, " O holy Fakir 1 was bringing my child for your blessing, when suddenly he died. Now I pass weeping from your door. Call on the name of God, and bring my son to life." On her weeping the Fakir had compassion ; he called to a tail- less bitch lying there, "Rise, mother bitch» breathe your breath in the child's face." The bitch got up and put its muzzle against the child's face ; the bitch died, and the child stood up alive. To this day that Hindu's descendants dwell in that village, and are known as Lunds., because their ancestor was brought back to life by a tail-laes bitch. The shrine of the holy Sarang is also in Kundai, and there the people offer votive offerings to this day.
33 MULTANI STORIES.
STORY No. 20:
THE ENGLISH CONQUEST FORETOLD;
ZillfiDera Ghazi Khan ds vich, Taunsa shailf dl shuhrat Fakir
|Chwaja Muhammad Sulaiman Rahmat Ullah de sabab kanu h£. AssI
bars karlbguzare h5sin, jo wadda aulia thl fju-
AuliS, tf. note to No. 3. zarg Sikhg dl bhaggl vich log'Dera Gtazl Khan
Bhaggz- conquest. ^e zillawale Fakir Sal dl 6t an paien. Fakir S§1 ktf
fariad dittonhe. Sipah SikhS di darya Sindh
kantf langkar, asa45 mulk ktt luttendi hai. Asada tafl bajun be koi asra aman de nahl. Sada kuk Kliuda de waste sun ; Aman= security: taital hai> Fakir akhea, mffjh n3 karo ; kale gae,
Taf-thee; tai-«ap to. t€ bagge ayg, Trai pheri iho galh, mSh Akheonhe=he said to akheonhe. Sipah Sikhe di kandhi Sindh pichhS t§ vail gal, Sahijtf SarkSr Angre? dl
THE ENGLISH CONQUEST FORBTOLD 39
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STORY No. 20.
THE ENGlJfeH CONQUEST FORETOLD.
The fame of Holy Taunsa in the Dora GhSzi Khan District is due to Fakir Khwaja Muhammad SulaimSn Rahmat Ullah. About eighty years have elapsed since the great saint passed away. During the Sikh conquest, the people of Dera Qhazi Khan sought the holy man's protection, and made their supplications: "The Army of the Sikhs has crossed the Indus, and is plundering our country. You are our refuge, we have no other hope of succour. For God's sake hear our cry to you " The holy man said, " Do not lament. The black men have gone ; and the white men have come." Three times he said this to them. And the army of the Sikhs returned from the bank of the Indus, and the rule of the English came.
f This story may be contrasted with that which makes the Sikh Guru Tig Bahadur prophesy from his prison at Delhi, that his oppressors were to be overthrown by men from the sea, wearing hats.]
5(0 MULTANI STORIES.
STORY No. 21.
HOW BAHAR KHAN OF THE JATOlS PLEASED THE
EMPEROR.
MS* fatto may mean Shabr Jatol wall Khanwade vichS ikk trimat
iatoi CrJ5?%fi M5! jatt° n&m6 va^! »khi the-i jal da langar
husband bf the Jatt atth pahrS chalria ha. Jatoi Baloch fthi de na
woman," as lhanoi is Uanfl mashhur thigae. " husband of a sister."
H. A. ROSE.
Jatol asal vich apna watan Kgch Makran dassende hain. Amir
Hamza Sahib, jS chScha h§ Nabi Akhir Zaman da, ahdinn, assS hff de
Dh r'-band aulad kanfl hal. Kech Makran kantf larke i
pachbadi roh vich an vute. Jawan bahadur hai»,
inhSE dg dhare ghare dl khabar Badshah Babar ku pahuti. Badshah inhS ktt mang§kar, hi tota zaml da bakhsh kitus, j5 Jatol kantK lake riasat de banng tal hai. Dhare larai nal inhe mulk Sind da ate Naharg da vi apn6 kabQ vich karghidda, Tabar dher sare ha-in, kai Dajal di hakamat di, kai Sahlwal, kai Hindostan ich, j6 ajj tal vaste hinn.
Said Khan inhS de vichS dadha bahadur jawan ha. Badshah apni nazar vich apne sir da naukar rakhea haus. Said
Sir da naukar = constant Khan da plu fakir admi ha. Khuda Sal kS dadha yad kargnda ha. Ukff puttr Said Khan kite misjh
hai ; Dihli vich unde ghar newan kite aya. Badshah Said Khan kft rukhsat n3 denda ha. Rat kil ihujiha kalam parheus, J5 badshah kff sari rat nind nS Syi. Fajr nal Badshah hil kfl saddke akhea, 1 di ja te, sak3 bea jawan ihujiha bahadur de, tal vele Said Khan kfl rukhsat desa. Said Khan da puttr Bahar Khan jawan dilawar ba, piu de ja te Badshah di naukari vich aea. Badshah htt di akal te bahaduri dekhan kite, e tajwiz kiti, jo baz Bahar Khan de hatth dittus, te ap andar mahal ich bah thea. Panj panj jawan dia, du chaukiS bahar, ate ikk andar, kharakar, unhS kit hukm dittusi ki jehre vele Bahar Khan mede salam te ave, baz h3 d6 hatth vicho' khass ghinno. Pahile chaukiwala sara zor laea, baz Bahar Khan kanfl nS khass saggeonhe. Duje chaukiwale I\vS apna sara chara kita, unhe kS bi baz na khassan dittus,
Hun andar mahl de vich awan di ja dadhl sauri hai, chhsti jehi mori ha-i. tjd5 vich langan dadha aukha ihinda ha. Vail Bahar Khan sinapp kita, baz wala hatth sinehethcha dittus ate langhaea. Andar wale jawan chauklwale vatt sara zor laea, Bahar Khan baz na ditta. Badshah dadha kjjush thea. Said Khan kfl rukhsat dittus, Bahar Khan k8 apnc kol rakheus.
,HOW BAHAR KHAN OF THE JATOlS PLEASED THE 41
EMPEROR.
•
STORY No. 21.
HOW BAHAR KHAN OF THE JATOlS PLEASED THE
EMPEROR.
In Ihe town of Jatol there was a lady named Jatto, belonging to the principal family, who was very generous, and whose kitchen was kept open day and night, all eight watches. The Jatci Baloches are so known from her name.
The Jatofs state that their original home is Kech MakrSn, and claim According to the tr,di- to bethe descendants of Amir Hamza, uncle of tionai Mohammarfsn the- the Prophet, the last of Prophets.
ology of the Western Pu»jab, there were 124,000 prophet! and Mohammad was the last of them.
They came fighting from Kech Makran and dwelt in these western hills. Tlvy were brave fellows, and the fame of their marauding bands reached the Emperor Babar. The Emperor sent for them and bestowed on them the country extending from Jatol to Bahawalpur State.
With their marauding bands and forays they brought the kingdom of Sind and of the Nahars under their sway. They were very numerous, and to this day some dwell in the Governorship of Dajal, some in Sahiwal, some in Hindustan.
Among them "Said Khan was celebrated for his bravery, and the Emperor kept him in his sight, and made him his constant companion. Said Khan's father was a holy man who spent a great deal of time in devotions ; he longed for his son, and came to Delhi to bring him home, but the Emperor would not give Said Khan leave. At night he repeated the creed so loudly that the Emperor got no sleep all night. In the morning the Emperor summoned him, and said, "Give me in his place a man as brave as he, and I will give him leave." Said Khan's son, Bahar Khan, a lad of spirit, came to the Imperial Service in his father's place. The Emperor devised a plan for testing his intelligence and bravery. He set a hawk on Bahar Khan's hand and himself took «p a position in the Palace. He posted guards of five men eachj two posts outside and one inside, and ordered them to sei/e the hawk when Bahar {Chan came to pay his respects. The first guard put forth all their strength but could not wrest the hawk from Baliar Khan. In like manner the second guard tried their hardest but could not get it from him.
Now the entrance to the Palace was very narrow with a smafl opening, through which it was very difficult to pass. Again Bahar Khan shewed wisdom : he put the hand holding the hawk under his bosom and passed through. The inside guard then again exerted themselves to the utmost, but Bahar Khan did not give up the hawk and the Emperor was very pleased. He gave Said Khan leave, and kept Bahar Khan in his service.
42 MULTANI STORIES."
STORY No. 22.
WALI MUHAMMAD KHAN, GOVERNOR OF MULTAN.
Ahmad Khan Durani jo Kabul da Badshahha, Hindostan te MahrattS te charbai kitus. Mil mil de utte munara ban venda ha; ude utte nagara vajj venda ha, jo aggie kff pahuch vanje, jo lashkar anda pae. Jehre vele Mahratte pahuta, Mahratte di fauj nau lakh ninanawe hazar hai. Ahmad Khan hukm ditta, jehra jana larai da zor karke badshah Mahratte da sir kapp ghinnasi, huku Multan di subadarl desa. Wai! Muhammad Khan larai vich zor ghattke, badshah Mahratte da sir kappke, Badshah de aggo an rakheus. Badshah huku Subadar Multan banaea.
Jehre vele badshahi Shuja-ul-Mulk kff mill, htf vele vl Wall Muham- mad Subadar Multan da ha. Shuja-ul-Mulk Shujabad vich a lattha. Zal Shuja Kian di, jo Wali Muhammad Khan ate Shuja Khan banne mulk de kite apat ich lardS rahnde hain, Shuja-ul-Mulk kfl akhea, clekh, Khan Sala, tedl badshahi vich, Wali Muhammad ejiha tfcha Tak-balance. misaj ^vala thigea, sakvi ahde; dhi da sak maikiX
Tak pownn, to have no de5. E khial nah! karenda, jo e Satjdozal he. I di equal, or to think so.— tak nahl paundi. Shuja-ul-Mulk dadhakawar thigea, Jukes, page 88. {- hukm dittus, Wali Muhammad Khan da pet chak
karke, mede samne ghinnao. Hu vele sipahi Wati Muhammad da pet chak karke, gljarib kW marghittonhe. Badshah de aggo an rakheonhe. Subadari Multan di Muzaffar Khan k\X dittus,
STORY No. 23.
HOW MEHWAL KHAN RESCUED A POOR WOMAN'S
CATTLE.
Then Diwan Sahib de vich Jatoia vichS Mehwal Khan Sardar h§. Hikk dihare hikk bhra te d5 bhatije nal, apn!
*Vefch mati-with his ^isakh te *veth marl bahte hain, jo Soni name
knees tucked up, and his Kanjari pittendi hul, fariad dittus, J5 Sardara mal
waist and knees girdled by nimani tede chha talle vasti ku, chore lutt ghidde,
a single cloth. media manjhia vi markar ghiddi vende hinn.
Kliuda da na maun, meda mal valwade. Khan
bhra bhatije cal drukkea, darya di kandhi te chore ku van milea : chore mal darya vich tgher ditta. Chor dher sare hain.
fGher ditta-caused to Mehwal Khan ku hatt kitonhe : Jmaut chah §karie ? lmt Asade pichho' na a. Khan bhra bhatije nal kul char
± Do you wish to die? admi hain, darya vich trapp cha ditta, chore nal ., larkar. mal te churaghiddonhe, apbhra bhatije nal { }KarIe, impersonal vsrb. mirg gag§ |ChanS de sir lurhde hoe darya vich8
tlekhke meivata kaddh ghinnae, Soni de malapne ghar vallgae. Malik ' di mehrbani Mehwal Khan de ||kuIlSutte, h« de
af\i?driTh.ny ghar da admi zahir kita, jo maik« d« trai mahine
di umedwari malum thindi e» Khuda Sal puttr ditta, jin di aulad Jind Vadda Khan hun maujud he.
HOW MEHWAL KHAN, RESCUED A POOR WOWAN'S 43
CATTLE.
STORY No, 22.
WALI MUHAMMAD KgAN, GOVERNOR OF MULTAN.
Ahmad Khan Dur5nl who was King of Kabul invaded Hindustan and the Mahratta country. Towers were built a mile apart, and on them drums were t eaten to pass on the news that the army was coming. When it arrived at the Mihratta country the Mahratta army numbered 999,000 men. Ahmad Khan promised the Governorship of Multan to him who should shew his prowess in the battle, and cut off the head of the Mahratta king. Wall Muhammad Khan showed his prowess in the battle and cut off the head of the king of the Mahrattas and laid it before the king. And the King made him Governor of Multan,
Wall Muhammad was still Governor of Multan when Shuj5-ul-Mulk became king. Shuja-ul-Mulk paid a visit to Shuja-
SdU<1ShKuba ul0MulkUiboth bad> There were quarrels about boundaries be- belonge/to the Saddowi twecn Wall Muhammad Khan and Shuja Khan, and clan; and (sol have been ShujaKhan's wife said to Shuja-uI-Mulk "Seet told) Saddozais do not Khan Sahib, Wall Muhammad in your kingdom has
thbefmSVeervePsardah am°ng • got so h'Sh an °Pinion of himself that he asks us for the hand of our daughter. He does not remem- ber that she is a Saddozai. He thinks he has no equal." Shuja-ul-Mulk got very angry and commanded, •' Cut out the entrails of Wall Mu- hammad and bring them before me." There and then the soldiers of Wall Muhammad cut out his entrails and brought them before the king. He gave the Governorship of Multan to Muzaffar Khan.
STORY NO. 23.
HOW MEHWAL KHAN RESCUED A POOR WOMAN'S
CATTLE.
Mehwal Khan of the Jatois was Sardar of Theri Dlwan Sahib.* One
*A village in the Aiipur day he was sitting with one of his brothers and
Tahsil. two nephews in his courtyard, his knees tucked up
and his waist and knees girdled by a single cloth.
A Kanjari named Son! came beating her breast and laid a complaint, " O Sardar, thieves have robbed me, a poor woman living under your shadow, and have driven off my milch buffaloes. In the name of God get back my cattle." The Khan hastened off with his brother and nephews, and fell in with the thieves on the river bank. The thieves drove the cattle into the river. They were a large party ; they warned Mehwal Khan •' unless you wish to die, do not come after us." The gnan with his brother and nephews, four in all, dashed into the river, and fought with the thieves and recovered the cattle ; but he himself was slain with his brother and nephews. When the Khans' heads were seen floating in the river the corpses were taken out.
Soni's cattle returned home. At the ceremony three days after Mehwal Khan's death, his wife made it known that by the grace of God she had been ia hopes for two or three months. God granted
of Th5,x, a S0il' whose de«cendact Jind Vadda Khant is still among us.
44 MULTANi STORIES,
STORY No. 24.
THE NAHARS (WOLVES)OF SITPUR.
Asal de vich kaum Nabara di PathSn hinn. Khurasan te vastg hain. Kai tarah badshah inha kanff ranja thigea, Khurasan kanfi nikalke panjah bazar lashkar rial Kohistan vich a baithe. tJ ja te guzara inha da changS na thinda ha. Mulk Hindustan vich larai karende fatah paende §56. Loke inha de zulm kanu, fariad Mir Firoz Shah vadde Badshah Dilhi de kff dittf. I vele Sardar Nahta da Mir Sultan Mahmud Khan lia. Badshah apne amira ku lashkar nal inha de laran kre mutta. Dadhi larai thei. Nahar vaddi bahaduri dikha!i, te akheonhe, assa Badshah de salam waste aye hal. Larai has thigai. Badshah inha ku kharch khurak ditta, te salam da hukm dittus. Jehre vele salam thigea Nahar arz kita, jo asaku koi tukkra zaml da Badshah bakhsh karg, jo assS abad thnvS. Badshah inha ku kandhi darya Chinab di kanu • M,« , inrA Pachadi roh tal, iho mulk *aidha Sjtpurvvala bakljsh *S,dha.ne,ghbourh<cd. fc. _ Amjf SuUan MahmQd kgillflddrt hakim
riba. PichchS V.S da puttr Abul Fateh Khan hakim rita. Ittifaqan Badshah Flpoz Sbah Dilhi wale di Raja Nipal de nal larai thipai. Hi larai de vich Abul Fateh Khan Badshah ku dadkl madad ditti ; Nahar Ijihalara, jo jifle nahar bakkriku margnde, ate Badshah inha kuMultanda suba vi dedittus. Vatt iktt pichche Badshah de nal shikar sblh de vich, Abul Fateh shlh nal larke shlh kv( marghittus, _ Badshah di zaban kanil, inha di tarif nahar mashhur lokS vich thigai. E lokkaprapSstin pahinde hain ; darhi Iambi dunni te, val Iambi pet tal. Abul Fateh margea : htt kanti pichcbe, hu da puttr Tahir Khan Wadda, vi varha di umr vich ha, jo Sitpur vich an tikana kitus. Sitpur pahile Sitanagar Raja Namrad di bahn de na nal mashur he, Jehre veie Tahir Khan aya> ha, apni haku- mat di ja banake, nawi sirS hi shahr kit dadha abad kitus. Sitpur Naharwala ajj tal mashur he. Lashkar nal mulk Mar ate Rajwara te mulk Sind fatah karke, apne kabu vich andus. Tahir de du puttar han -f Ibrahim Khan, te duja Isan Khan. Ibrahim Khan mulk kajwarate hakim riha, jo ajj tal kaum Nahara maujud han. Isan Khan de dfl puttar han : Islam Khan te Ikram Khan. Isan Khan da pStra Mir Akbar Ali Khan Alipur kQ abad an kitus, ate Daud Khan hu da puttar Dajal da hakim riha, Kai piria de pichhe Muhammad Tahir Khan fSakhi hakim Sitpur riha. Tahir Khan masila banawan jkhangaha banawan .bahG kitus. Bea bah3 sakhi ha ; lok ajj tal e kissa sunende bin.
Tahir Khan hikk lingi sunneus ki giddar rOrde paen. Wazir ku* saddwaeus aur Wazir aea. Puchchheus ki giddar kiijf paen rQrde ? Wazir jawab ditta, ki Hazur inh^ku pala pea laggda h6, doje, inheku bhukk laegi hd. Tahir Khan akbea, ki do bore danS mede gnaro" bhar karai deone. Do trai than kapre ghinn karai, darzi de pa?e ne, siwake de. tlnhl kapre dane, Wazir apne ghar rakheua te khadhus.
Vatt duje vele giddar di khau sunneus. Puchchheus Wazir kanu, ki hun kixX paen lurue? Wazir jawab ditla, ki Hazfir di ba^ht di dua karenden.
THE NAHARS (WOLVES) OF SITPUR. 45
STORY No, 24?
THE NAHARS (WOLVES) OF SlTPlJR.
The Nahars are really Pathans who dwelt in Khurasan. For some reason their King was angry with them, so they left Khurasan ; they came fifty thousand strong and settled in KohistSn. Unable to subsist* there, they came to the country of Hindustan, fighting tind conquering. Complaints of their ravages were made to Mir Firoz Shah, the Emperor at Delhi. Mir Sulfan Mahmdd Khan was then the leader of the Nahars. The Emperor sent his nobles with an army to fight them. There was a great battle, and the Nahars dis- played great bravery, and said " We have come to pay our respects to the Emperor." When the battle was over, the Emperor gave them food and pay, and ordered that they should be received. When they were received, the Nahars begged that they might get a portion of the royal domain where they might dwell. The Emperor conferred on them the country in the neighbourhood of Sitpur, from ihe banks of the River Chenab to the Western Hills. Amir Sultan Mahmod remained Gov- ernor for some time. After him his son, Abul Fateh Khan, -was Gov- erndr. Now it came to pass that Firoz Shah, the Delhi Emperor, fought with the Raja of Nijal. Abul Fateh Khan gave great help to the Emperor in this war ; the Nahars fought even as wolves slay goats, and the Emperor gave them the Province of Multan. Then after this, during a tiger hunt with the Emperor, Abul Fateh strove with a tiger and slew it. From the praises of the Emperor they became known to the people as Wolves. The Nahars wore fur coats, beards reaching to the navel, and hair to the waist. Abul Fateh died and was succeeded by his son, Tahir Khan the Great, at the age of twenty, who came and dwelt at Sitpflr, formerly known as Sltanagar from the name of Raja Namrud's sister. When Tahir Khan came and made Sitpur his capital, he was the second founder of the city, for the Sitpur of the Nahars is still re- nowned. With his army he conquered and brought under his rule Mac and Kajwara and Sindh. Tahir had two sons, Ibrahim Khan and Isan Khan. Ibrahim Kh§n became Governor of Rajwara (in Rajputana), where the Nahars dwell to this day. Isan Khan had two sons, Islam Khan and Ikram Khan. IsSn Khan's grandson, Mir Akbar Ali Khan, founded Alipur and his son Da ud Khan was ruler of Dajal. Sevetal generations later Muhammad Tahir Khan, the open-handed, was ruler of SitpQr. Tahir Khan was a great builder of mosques and shrines. And he was exceedingly generous ; to this day people relate this story of him.
Tahir Khan once heard the jackals howling, He summoned his Wazir and the Wazir came. He asked " why are the jackals howling?" The Wazir answered, "because they are cold and hungry, Your Highness.", Tahir Khan said " fill two sacks of grain from ray house, and give them to the jackals. And take two or three lengths of cloth, take them to a tailor, have clothes made, and give these too to the jackals." The Waelc took the grain and clothes to his own house and kept them for his own use.
Again Tahir Khan heard the crirs of the jackals. He asked his Wazir, "why are they howling now?" The Wazir answered, "they are calling down blessings on Your Honour's head."
46 MULTANI STORIES.
Kai pira de bad Islam Khan thea. Islam Khan di ikk dhl BibI Baggbi hai, jai GhazI Khan nal larai karke, mulk apne kabu vich anda. Pichhe Gaman Sachcha, jo Wazir ha GrhazI .Kban da, sula karal, <e larai bas thigai. Islam Khan de aulad vich8 Tahir Khan vi thea, jin de cbar puttar, jin de waqt Saltana£ barbad thigai. I zamane vich Bakhshan Khan jo chekiri aulad Nahara' de vicho ha, Tahsil da Jamadar rahgea. O margea, te hS di randar zal GJiulam Fatima ajj tai maujud hai, te
Sarkar kanu at(h rupiye sala di mafi khandi hai.
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NOTB.— Tahir Khan Sakhi was ruler in the time of Nadir Shab. He was son of Mu- hammad Maqbul Khan Nulur.
THE NAHARS (WOLVES) OF SiTPUR. 47
Several generations after came Islam Khan, who had one daughter Bibi Bagghi, She fought with Ghazi Khan, and brought the country under her sway. Afterwards GhazI Khan's Wazlr, Gaman the True, brought about peace, and the war came to an end. Islam Khan's family included one Tahir Khan, who had four sons, in whose time the sovereign- ty of the Nahars was swept away. The last of the Nahars was Ba^shan Khan, Jimadar of chaprasis in the AlipQr Tahsil, whose widow Ghu- lam Fu.ima is still alive, and has a revenue-free grant of Rs. 8 per annum.
NCTK. — This account of the Nahars of Sitpur is partly translated, partly abbreviated from a Persian document in the possession of the old woman mentioned in the concluding sentence. The court chronicler does not include the story of Tahir Khan Sakhl, the roost famous of all MuzafTargarh tales, which has already appeared in print several times. How- ever, it has ncvjr appeared in the tongue in which it is commonly told, so no apologies aie necessary.
4& MULT AN I STORIES.
STORY No. 25.
THE DEVOTED LOVERS.
Jhang de zille de vich, kai shahr de vich, ja! da nan yad nah!, e galh
zabani vadcje m5tbir di sunni hai, ki hikk talih ilm musafir di roll ikk
zamldar de ghar banni hoi hai-i. Hff tatfb ku zamldar di dhl de nal
dadhi mohabbat paida thigal. Kitnediha're kanfl pichhe jo ioka vich hull
pal gal ; to jatt htt talib ku ghar awan kanff hatt*k ditta. Hu di chahir
ku dard *farak vichore de ehija blmar kita, ki vende
•Farak- separation. Venc'e varhe de andarla ilaj thike.ttaddi de naksh
T 1 adai»»aate-palni mat- .1 - - /~<i i - •- i" •' « nai i-
ting, taddi de naksh= thlga^- Wham de mare, jo ko; tarah mvlh)arda
unable to vise. dekha ma ku akheus, Amma bibi mal hun marnvvali
JKhatm Qutan = the hun, chhekar bald mede uttej kh^tm Quran de
whole Quran. The whole parh5. MS ttdi Sda akhan mannke, sabhrg talibS
or the Quran is or should F V , ,, _ , , i «»•.»•*
be re*d at the grave after k" saddke khatm parhwaeus. Apne yar kuaya na
a funeral. dekhke^ dadhi mifjhi thigal, vatt cbara kitus,
H . _ akheu?, Amma bi I, sare lok parhnwale aye hin, ikk
fu'ana shakhs nahl aya, hun badnam! di dadhi
ham, jo tau hiX k\X nah! saddea. Lo^ cha akhsin. Hun van], huku sadd ghinna. Ma iXdi gal hukfi sadd ghinnal. Ro*i khawan waste sare log katar badh baithe, har kai dg hatth dhuonhe, magar apne y5r de hatth 6 blmar ap uthike ap dhuonis, ate ek bea de akkh vich akkh dehde rahe. Jehre vele pint pura thlgea, dobe dhatte zaml te, jan kai na hai; aur har dunaLe kfl dhanwake hikko ja hikko kabar vich pujjonhe.
STORY No. 26.
KHOFA;THE ROBBER.
Khofca, zat da Suhal, bahanwala alake Gurmani de vich, vele §Khan de vadda bahadur chor thf guzara.
Jf^SffSSSffSS Jarlf htt f zor dibaha mashur he, ejiha tikha ha,
Bah'awal Khan the Great J5 Whi changl gliori drukdi hui, hu k« na mildl
was in Bahawalpur. hai. Hikk dihare Abdus Samad Khan de ghar vich
rat kff pahr? vichS langke andar khas kothi samman
wall vich vanj chippea. Jhat kan pichhe, Pathani zal Khan di kijf banhS ankgvsawaea ; Pathani kapre lahake sutti. Khan ghar koi na ha. Pathani dadhi sonhi hai, Khota hi ku sutfa dekhke dil vich be-Iman thiwan lagga. Dil apne vich ganneus, e kamm changa * Mukali-munh ka!a. *mukala na kar ; hikk ghari di tanat hai ;
ate dunya sone di chah. Akhir jitna cha saggea, kamar nal laeus, bhajj pea. Baharo' pahra trlmat! da ha, unhg dittha — Dhar ! Dhar ! Chor ! Chor ! da shor machaditta. Unha kaniXbahaiS do pahra marda de hai-in, pakaran kite bhi tiar thigae. Khota zor lakar kile te charhgea, trapp marke, sowkri kanu zor nal nika) gea,
KHOTA, THE ROBBER. 49
STORY No. 25.
THE DEVOTED LOVERS.
In the Jhang District, in a town of which I have forgotten the name, I heard from a reliable source the following story. A travelling student used to get his food at a peasant's hous^, and fell in love with the peasant's daughter. After a while this became generally known, and the peasant forbade him the house. From the anguish of separation, the girl pined away, and within a year was unable to ri-ie, Griefstricken, and desirous of finding some way of seeing her lover's face, she siid to her mother, " Mother dear, I am on the point of death, now for the last time have the whole of the Quran read over me." Her mother did as she wished, and sending for all the students, had the Qur5n read through. But not seeing her lover, the maid again became sorrowful, and devised another plan. She said, " Mother dear, all the readers have come but one, you know whom I mean, I am put to shame because you have not sent for him. People will talk, please go and send for him." Her mother went and summoned him.
All the people sat down in a line to ea*, and tbay washed the hand* of all ; but the sick girl her^eli g.»t up and washed her lover's hands, and they looked into each other's eyes. When the water was finished both fell to the ground lifeless. They removed the bodies of both and buried them together in the same grave.
STORY No. 26.
KHOTA, THE ROBBER.
Kh5ta, a Suti§l by caste, who dwelt in the neighbourhood of Gur- mSni in the time of Abdul Sa^mad Khan, was a celebrated robber. He was famous for his strength, 'and so fleet of foot that a good horse could not catch him. One day he got through the guards of A bdul SamSd Khan's house at night, entered the house and hid himself in the bed- chamber. In a little while the maids brought the Khan's Pa^han wife and helped her to retire ; the Pathani undressed and went to sleep. The Khan was not at home, and she was very beautiful. Khota sceiflg her asleep, xv as tempted in his heart; but his conscience warned him that it would not be right. " Do not do this shameful thing, it is a moment's wickedness ; what you want is gold." At length he wrapped round his waist all he could carry, and made off. The guard of women outside saw him and raised the alarm, " Help ! Hdp! Thief! Thief!" Beyond them were two guards of men, and they made ready to seize him, but Khota exerting his strength, scaled the fort, leaped do\v n, and by main force escaped from the horsemen.
So MU.LTANI STORIES,
STORY No. 27.
THE KIRAR AND THE JATT-
*Pa!cb kattVig thike salah kiti, Mussalman masita banavenden, assS vl hikk duaira banavan, jinde vich Sal kfl yad
tMusicaTsrrtn1edTnstru. *"***• Duaira tiar kitonhe, yich hun de katthe ments, rebeck*. thike, fdukar, twazire, fcheue', vajjakar iho bajjau
gawan lagge —
Dewa taran aya be, sun6 mede sadho, Dewa taran a\e ! O Bhal Rama, DewS taran aye !
Gawan [ga'an] J5 ce utte bgpari bahar da age a. Bajjan vende kitonhe, u kanfl agghj bba bar sbai da pucbhan lagge. J^hrl shai kif dadha aggh ba, u shai de mull ghinnan kite bhajj pae ; jehre vele kbarid kar khare, kai pS38 cbittVil agai, jo kharld nS karni, aggb trutt gea. Ront.e duaire vich gae gal vich kapre pake, apne lhakkar de agge Iho bhajjan gawan lagge —
Dew5 galan aye ! O Bh5i jSadho Dewa gaian aye!
Jehre vglg bapar vichS ghatS paigeonhe, Jatta da hTs=ab yad ayonhe.
Jatt ku pakkarke, bandi khara kaddhke J^tt nal hissab karan lagge.
Akheonhe, sun, §bell, takka tel wala te takke
§Beli=friend. da tel ; ane da bu-wala tel, te ana tel da ; ana
jKi3*&SS5'. dal » ala 5ne d» dal, M : ana del wala ; <)a
f Mi ti — Multant m'Ktl— Sr.e da s-abon, ate du ane sabon wale ; takke de saponaceous enth, used ||meshak, takka meshak wala ; paise di ijmitti te
fe!>»8*Rp- bja Ja-^' ti ,4 f paisa mitt! wala ; barhg ane da ^bochan, te b'arhS
""Bocnan — the kind of . ._ . . . _,
shawl a woman wears ever ane bochan wala; atth ane da ttchola tJhulwan
her hea<i. da, ate atth ane cbole wale; do t upiye di ghagghra,
ilHutwa"b-iCred cloth at€ ^6 ^W* ghaggh:e wale; didh rupiye da worn by Jatt woman. pattka te d qlh rupiya pattke wa)a ; Rupiye da
§§Ne=takeaway. kurta /e rupiya kurte wala; char rupiye de
lung!, te char rupiye lungi wale; <}6 payS dane
Jatti §§nU6 ; panj paya dana lahakghinn gea. Jutrla kita, unattri rupiye rok,ate bora c'ane da, jinde pichchho viaj, sud i] jlchilkane nal, sattar rupiye rok te chhatti danedithee. Jatt kantt isl-tamp'hkhwa-ghiddus. Jehr6 vgle bar da vela aya, sari bar^lf gaddih te iaddake, ghar apna cha gea, Jattkff akheus, Awi te bissab samajh vanji. Jehre vele Jatt gea hftkfl aget nil,
IFGaddih- donkey maMs. kapah dekar, baki rokre panjah rupiye ate daYiS
**'Jh*6ii «. tail of ahift apra ***jholl 15 bharai ka4dhkar, baki'dana chhi .* a leceptaclfe fgr chautha Jatt de nam baki likheonis.
JAt the Educational Conte.ence of 1909, wt en Punjabi tor the Punjabis wss on the tapis, an Insf e':tor of Schools to prove how impossible it was to fix on one mother tongue s id he cou'd give a word used in the Punjab which n6 other Punjabi present would know. '1 his was aggh, price, and »uie enough, 1, an old inhabitant of the Indus riverain, was the only ether man there ivho had heard the word.— A. O'BRIEN.
| (IChilkanti is " A deduction of ffom J to l anna per tupee made on a loan in addition to the interest, A man borrowing 100 rupees would cniy get Rs. 93-12-0, the difference Rs 6-4-0 is chilkiinii, vvljile interest is paid on Rs. iCO."f-Juke«, Westein Punjabi Dictionary, page 12^.
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STORY NO. 27.
THE KIRAR AND THE JAJT.
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[T^issUit o-i the w«yf of the Hindu moneylender, or fCirdr •• he if called in the South-West Punjab, is the synopsis of a play performed by bands of strolling players MirfiM*. as a rule. I have seen it twice, and it is much appreciated by the Mubammadan peasantry fo< whose amusement it i* in'onded.]
The elders of the Hind Qs assembled and took counsel: and said " The Muhammadans build mosques ; let us also build a temple in which we may worship God." They made a temple ready, and assembl- ed there, and had rebecks and other stringed instruments struck, and began to sing this hymn of praise —
God has come to pay us ! hear, my holy brethren, God has come to pay us ! O brother Ram, God has come to pay us.
A trader from a distance came to the place where they were singing. They stopped the music, and asked the price and rate of every- thing, and hastened to buy the dearest goods. After the transaction was over a letter arrived saying " Don't buy ; the rates have gone dbwn." Weeping, and with *cloths round their necks, they eqtered the temple and began to sing this hymn before their priest —
God has come to ruin us ! O ! Holy brethren ! God has come to rain us.
Now, as they had suffered loss in trade, they took thought cf their accounts with the Jatts. They got hold of a Jatt, brought out leHger and day book, and began to go through his account. " Listen friend, a ha'porth of oil, and oil a ha'penny; a penn'orth of sweet oil, ard sweet oil a penny ; a penn'orth o' d5l, and dal a penny, and a penny for d§l ; two penn'orth o' soap and tuppence for soap ; a ha'por th of scented soap, scented soap a ha'penny ; a pice for Mullani earth, earth a pice ; twelve annas for a shawl, a shawl twelve annas ; eight annas for a red bodice, the bodice, eight annas ; two rupees for a petticoat, a petticoat two rupees; one eight for a puggree, the puggree one ei^ht ; a rupee for a shirt, and the shirt a rupee ; four rupees for a lungi, a lungi four rupees ; two measures of grain your wife had, and five measures the farm hand took." He added up the total, twenty-nine rupees cash, and one sack of grain; with interest and profits and additions, seventy rupees cash, and a double sack of grain. He got a bond written by the Jatt. When harvest time came, he loaded all the harvest on donkeys, and carried it to his own house. To the Jatt he said, " Come and make up your account.*' When the Jatt went, after giving him a receipt for his indigo and cotton, he recorded as balance due, cash fifty rupees, and corn, after turning out what was in the tail of his shirt, one and a half sacks.
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oai. chiu^h ^quarter). |
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bora (sack). |
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STORY No, 28.
WHOM GOD FEARS,
Jatt akhea chaukidar ku, jehre vele taikuanda dedhe hal, asakff
darran ande, jiw? rahar kanu bakkii darrdi he, sadi jan te *kander charh vendl he. Taiku vi c>§ukldara kai k'anQ darr ande ? Chaukidar akhta, ma! lambardar kaoS darda ate lambar- dar vatt zaiidar kanQ darde, zaildar vatt tahsll-
dar kanS darde, tahslldar sahib zillewale ka.nu darde, sahib zilla Commissioner kanv( darde, Commissioner Lat Sahib kan\S darde, Lat Sahib Badshah . kantJ darde. Badshah kanii puchhonhe tu vi kai kanff dardS ? Badshah akhea mal Khuda Sal kanG dardS. Khuda Sal kar.G puchhonhe, tfl vl kai kanu darde? Kljuda Sal akhea malku vatt Patwati kantt 4ar ande Mede tsat da banra kita'tl honde, ate Patwarl l5kS kQ fareb ;na! bei ja cassende^ jp reality fact, har dihare mukadme khare thinde.
WHOM GOD FEARS. 53
STORY No 28.
WHOM GOD FEARS.
A Jatt said to a chaukidar, when I see you coming I am as much afraid as a she-goat is of a wolf. The hair on my
The )a# was a cattle- body stands on end. O chauki. 3r, are you afraid thief, of course- of anyDOdv ? The chaukidar said, I am afraid of
the Lambardar ; the Lambardar fears the Zaildar, the Zaildar the Tah- sildar, theTahsildarthe Deputy Commissioner, the Deputy Commissioner, the Commissioner, the Commissioner the Governor, the Governor the King. They asked the King, fi Do you fear any one ? " The King said,^1 1- fear God." They asked God, " Do you fear any one ? " God said, " I fear the Patwari. My true boundaries are in one place and the Patwarl deceives people a,nd shews them another, so that every day cases arise.''
54 MULTANI STORIES.
THE DEVIL ASLEEP.
Shaitan kfl kai jane jangal vioh sutta d'ttha. Shaitan kfl Skheus, tvf jangal ich sutta pea, teda kamm vassfl te he, kehikvl shor ghattawan, kehiku khun karawan ; tQ jangal vich pai thea. Shaitan akhea nje4edu' puttar thi pain; medl jSn kamnn kar kanff chutti pai h6. U jane puchha, kehre kehie puttar hinn tede ? Shaittn akhea, hikk vakil, te hikk patwari. Bea, vatt (from Persian Vaddh phal pai-n, pi\tie wale thi pai-n. Patwa i
ajant hinn. Thea *zaunki wadda ha.
STORY No. 30.
ANOTHER STORY AGAINST A PATWARI.
Hikk dih§rg Jatt ikk tote zaml dg vich hal pea vahSnda ha :
zaml vichS awkz ayi, Mi2 jatta, i\t dukhl nS thi, hi vande vich
hal n§ vaha, aslii rarh da kamm chhorde, itthahi 1 jal heth kabr cha
bana, taikil dadhl khattl thi si. Jatt 8 ala sunke, hal vaddha dit-
tus, te jal heth kabr ban5ke, mujavvar ban
SSSZSSsGfZ baithi Ssltal-koltkhattins ayi, bll baebU
a shrme. bl bhukkh kanu kharab the-e, 5p vl karzai
thigea. Bee sal vail hi zaml ku pan! lake, atS
hal vaha wan shuru kitus. Vatt ohi aw3z ayi — Mia Jatta, meda akhan nS mannio. Jatt kiS kavvar laggl, uhl ja zaml ku jehrl ja kanu* ala anda ha, 11 ja patteus, vichS kopri nikalayi, kopri kanft puchheus, tu kai bhale di kopri h£, med» khana Wiirab karditte, te ujar ditte'. Kopri b5ll ; Mai patwarl di kopri hax jinde sal d'e jhugge sunj kite hain, moe hoe hikk Vta.ik8 sanjg kitam, kya
ANOTHER STORY AGAINST A PATWAlU. 55
STORY No. 29.
THE DEVIL ASLEEP.
Some one saw the devil asleep in a jungle. He said to the devil, " You asleep in the jungle ! Why, your work is in the abodes of menf stirring up strife, and getting blood spilt; and you in the jungle.'* The devil r* plied, "I have got two sons and do no work myself now." The other asKtd who hia sons were. The devil answered, " The plead -r and the patwarl : and moreover they have muhiplied and increased and are fathers. The patwaris' children are the p^tition*writers and the pleaders' children are the touts, I'm a great holiday-maker now."
STORY No. 30. ANOTHER STORY AGAINST A PATWARl.
Orle day a Jatt. was ploughing a piece of land, when a voice came from the ground " My dear Jatt, don't take so much pains ; don't plough here, give up cultivating, *make a shrine under this jal tree, you will ob- tain great profit." The Jstt, hearing this voice gave up ploughing; and, *making a shrine under the jal tree, became its attendant. A year after- wards, he had had no profit, his children were hungry, and he was in debt. Next year he watered his land again and began to plough. Again lhat voice came " My dear Jatt, you are not doing what 1 told you." The Jatt got angry, and he dug up the place whence the voice proceeded. A skuH was unearthed. He asked the skull, " Are you the skull of an honest man ? You have spoiled and ruined my livelihood." The skull answered, " I am the skull of a patwan : while alive I ruined hundreds of homes, since I died I have ruined only yours, what's that to make a fuss about."
•Kabr cha batia. The expression implies build something from vvMeh it might be in- ferred that a grave was undetneath. «
56 MULT&NI STORIES.
NoTE.*Mr. Grey, now Colon-l Grey, C.S.I., »** carried off in 1868. At that t.me the office and authority of the Kasram Tumandar, a minor, were practically usurped by Kaura Kkan, Mukaddam of Tibbi. The murderer was Kaura KhaVs son, and hence the importance of the case. I do not vouch for the accuracy of all the details, but the story is given as it was related to me.
STORY No. 31.
.THE ABDUCTION OF LIEUTENANT GREY. Khair Shah ku Jal-angir Kh§n ne banduk nal Mauze Rora Tahsil Kul5chi» de vich marea Yakub Khan Kasrani de
ttnW0TheTt;L«"5"i "•«' ' «'«• Muharram de satwg dihare ha, shaha- the North-Wot i-rontier dat kan" trai d hare pahile ; Khair Shah kff Province, the boundary be- JahSngir Khan akhea, Jalo, darya vich dhaun.
S'^r '£/ gs ® * SKH. *khe«' a» ^usH *? din n*hi' a^
Ghazi KrTIr, ran consider- Va(^e hl dihare _tasse Lain. Yazizf ne unhS da ably south of Vahoa, pani band ki a ba, assa nihse dhandS ." "fulde nearly opposite Lei»h. te jul, dh§ nS, mal rufak marenda." Khair
tReally Yazid. the sixth Shah akhe§, tu malktt mar&nde, taik« Khuda
S«J£"S"iS" ST Yazlz banne, taikfl lok lanat karesin, mal Savvad
pettshed at Karbala. a, maikvf shahadat miUI. Vail Jabanglr Khan
banduk samne karke, ghora charhad-.tta, chhara
Kliair Shah de hS de vich lagga, par nikala. Khair Shah dhai pea. Jahangir Khan nS akhea, ki ap tufak chikkan lagga, rakdiJ-an lacrgi HS de pi a ai<hea, ki panj sau rupiye deo, mai dawa nahi k«re icla 6 takdiran rnoea* Vail- do Deputy Commissioner mukarrar thike tabdrl thi cfae, te vail Grey Sahib pichchhe aya. L5k Khiir Shah
JShahld means martyr, kff Jshahid ahde rahnde hann. Grey Sahib UUtuy;i7ori0uUs;3UPofemany P.uclichhan lagga, ki h« k« shaln 1 k!3 ahdin, kiv^ murdered man, even of one shahidha-i? Muhammad Sadiq ikk thanadar ha, eaceiuted for treachery or mukhbari ki.f ki e marea go a, te hfl da kJjQn rebellion against a lawful lnl,Wg af,z Sahih n? akho3 lukkea o-pS ! arhrr-ha »
and recognised Muham- aKnca^iuKKea gea ! acncnna r
madan rukr.— H. A. ROSE. n»a? I khun da sabut kare>a. bahib re uthi Dera
Ismail Khan, tlarl kit!. Do beriS tlar thia. Hikk
vichcharhea Gandapur Kalu Khaiite Naurang Khan, Kulachide rahnwa'e, Rals admi hain,aur nal vi panji aswar. Duji bgri vich Grey Sahib charhea ; ate ht( de nal meda plu Mehr Shah 8 ja gea. Biggot Sahib Naib Commis- sioner ha, hit kfi mede piu akhea Grey Sahib ku manna karo, vanjan na d66, te vanje saman nal vanje, uw§ na vanje, Kasrani zarur larsin. ItthiX Biggot Sahib ne Commissioner Sahib kxl akhea. Commissioner Sa'nib ne Mehr Shah ku saddea, Mehr Shah ne hikft bi akhea, ki Kasrani bhirsin. Grey Sahib ne galh na manni. Mehr Shah k*a akhea, ki tu* nal jul mede. Mehr Shah akhea ki mal kljushki rah nal asS, utth tg charhke. lu Dere Fatteh Khan lahe, ma! vi Dere Fatteh Khaii asa. Huna'.a ha, Sawan da darya ha, zor tughianl da ha, Kalfl Khan di ben jitthe fauj charhi hoi °a, 6 beri Leiah de pattan dl ubhar kaudhi kS van] hggi. Sahib wall ber! van] lags! dilahi kandhi Panj Girain de; darya vich agea. Sahib ghore te aswar thea, Mirza Sarishtadar nal hais, khansafftS nal, chuprassl nal. Sahib Azim dl vast! aya, uttha Haidar Shah, buddha jiha, chacha Mehr Shah da, maujud ha. Bge ohobar maujud hann, Said All, te Dalian Shah, te Nawaz All. Grey Sahib
akhea ki madad ded, Mehr Shah kitthe ? ttSJ^fi^rfi^Sj Akheonhe, Mehr Shah raste vich aoda here.
THE ABDUCTION OF LIEUTENANT GREY. 57
STORY No. 3^
THE ABDUCTION OF LIEUTENANT GREY.
Now Jahanglr Khan shot Khiir Shah at the well of Yakob Khan the Kasrani in Rora, Tahsil Kulachi [District Dera Ismail Khan].
It was the seventh dav of the Muharram, three days before the martyrdom, and Jahangir Khan said to Khair Shah, " Come, let us go and bathe in the river." Khiir Shah replied, " To-day is no day for pleasure ; my ancestors thirsted on this very day, Yazld cut off their water, and I will not bathe." "Come along and bathe, or I will kill you with my gun." Khair Shah said " If you kill me, God will make •Substitute "Judas" you a veritable Yazld,* and men will curse you. to get the flavour of tha I am a Sayyad and a martyr's crown will be meaning, mine." Then Jahangir Khan raising his gun
pulled the trigger ; the charge passed through Khair Shah's heart and came out on the other side, and he fell.
Jahangir Khan said c< Khair Shah was about to fire the gun himself, and was killed by accident."
Khair Shah's father said " Pay five hundred rupees and I make no claim ; he died by an accident."
- Then two Deputy Commissioners were appointed and transferred, and then Grey Sahib came after them.
People used to call Khair Shah a martyr, and Grey Sahib asked, " Why do they call him a martyr? How was he a martyr?" Muhammad Sadiq, a Thanadar, gave information how Khair Shah was killed and the murder hushed up. "Hushed up 1" said Grey Sahib; "Very well ; I will clear up this murder."
The Sahib made preparations at Dera Ismail Kh5n. Two boafs were got ready ; in one of them were Kalu Khan and Naurang Khan. Gandapur Pa^hans of Kulachi. They were men of position and had with them a score or so of horsemen. Grey Sahib was in the other boat ; my father Mehr Shah accompanied him. Beckett Sahib was the Assistant Commissioner and my father said to him "Stop Grey Sahib, don't let him go, or if he will go, then let him go after proper preparations and not like this. The Kasranis will certainly shew light." Beckett Sahib told the Commissioner, who sent for Mehr Shah ; and Mehr Shah told him also that the Kasranis would fight ; but Grey Sahib paid no heed. He told Mehr Shah to accompany him ; but Mehr Shah said he would go by land riding a camel #nd they would meet at Dera Fatten Khan,
It was the hot weather, a July river, and the stream was so strong that Kalu Khan's boat with the armed men was carried away to the Leia^h Ferry on the east bank ; while the Sahib's boat was carried to Panj Girain on the west bank, with the river Indus between them. The Sahib mounted his horse, accompanied by Mirza, the Sarishtadar, his servant, and his chaprassis ; and came to Sahib Azlm's hamlet, where he met old Haidar Shah, uncle of Mehr Shah, and some lads, Said All, Dalian Shah, and Nawaz All. Grey Sahib called on them for help and enquired about Mehr Shah. They replied "Oh, Mehr Shah mu»t be on the road, he will arrive in due course."
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MULTANI STORIES.
Vail Sahib Said Ali nal te bee mardS nal Yakab wale khQh te gea, Sadwaeus Jahangk Khan kfl, Kaure Khan kfl jo Jahanglr Khan da plu ha. Yakub Khan te Gaman Khan agge te khuh te maujud hann, utthe bahnde hann. Sahib apne s.pahi orderly k8 akheus, ki^Jabangir Khan pah r a de talle bilao. Ikfl pahra dittonhe khabar paigei ki chhe \ia banduk Kasrani dia Mir Baz de nal agae Sahib de sir te. Grey Sahib kuchh takra thiivan lagga, tumancha maran lagga. Yakub Khan Sahib de bazu khencheus, tumancha khass ghiddonhe Sahib kanu, Sahib ku pakkar ghiddonhe. Chhote jehe tattu utte Sahib kfl char- haeonhe, Sahib de ghore te api sawar thi gae : akheonhe Sahib kfl, ki hun tu kaidl hai sacla.
HjX velemaT raaujud koi nahim, plu meda maujud koi nahl, meda SO<T maujud ha, takra thea, Sahib kff akhea, Ki huktn deo te mal unhS de ral larS. S^hib akhea, Dalian Shab, hatt vanj ; tfl lare, assa 4o^a marsffi tu fasad na ghatt. Bee sab kujh bhajj pae balwa dekhke, sabhe drukk pae.
Sahib kfl ghinn ae Tibbl Kasr3nl wa1! de vich. Hikalla Sahib h§,
Jachar, bewass. Hi kff ghinn gae Bati de andar roh de vich. Mirza
Sarishtadar j5 drukkda ha, Sahib kfl chhSrke, mede plu ki5t ittila dl, ki
Sahib ku chhe via sawar ghinn gae. Eha T5da *L)asti Babbi de vich8
patthea, bastl jo Mehr Shah de Murid hann, utthe
Mehr Shah madad ghinnan waste tur pea. Phir
Nor Muhammad Khitran Vahoa kan^f akar, sawar de nal Batl de aggo vail aya. PichchhS meda plu geat ht( de nal koi chhe via jawan, trih chalhl sowar, bee piade. Mai vi khabar pakar, Leiah kanfl darya kQ tarke, ghore par charha apne plu kif vanj mileum.
Mede plQ banduk marl ; n3 lagjgi kahi kfl, hawai mareus, uttha k^ darawan waste. Unhanne bi banduk marei hawai. Vail mal jo vanj mileum Grey Sahib kff chordittonhe. Grey Sahib hikk rat hikk dihare unhS de nal rahgea, ate peshl vele unha chhor ditta. Sahib piada aye, utth de utte mede plu de pichchhe sawar thea. Hi kv( charhake, mede piu Vahoa, jd atth koh pand e, ghinn ayS. Dujhe din, Commissioner Sahib gya, Grey Sahib 'Mehr Shah kS mohr laha ditti, ki tu vanj, Kaure da sir ya kapp ghinnao, ya httkil baddh ghinnao, ItthiX jo charheus assa, plu meda, mat Mangrothe vich geose. Itthu assa Darvesh Bozdar ku patthea, Ashe Khan kff ghinna. Piu mede banduk shahi ditti, jo chhe sau ruplye dl klmat hai, Ashe Khan Bozdar kff ditti, ki tu a, kal salah kar, madad de, te Kaura Khan Kasrani baddhff, te jehra inana chahiye ta akh, mal likhesa, maikfi ikhtiyar e, Sahib ne maiku mohr laha dh\i e.
Sandeman Sahib vi lammg Dgre vich8 tar pakar Mangrothe 5ya.' Nawab Jarral Khan Leghari vi aya Mangrothe de vich. Satt sau aswar nal Nur Ahmad Legha-I, jo Din Muhammad de piu hai, 6 vi aye, trai assgae, margae, kitf jo Leghari ne sunnie ki murshid
ras'e vich ph
sade baddhe ghiddonhe. Sandeman Sahib mede plQ ku akhea, tu bah, tiS aram kar, mehmanl 4itti, dumbe pattheonhis dhed sadl ^haHr kltl. Akhea ki him medg ilaoa vich agae Kasrani, tS ubahal na kar, mede salah nal kar. Vail Jamal Khan, Nur Ahmad Khan, Lund, Kh5sa, eha sabbhe hamrah kita Sandeman ^ahib Mehr Shah de nal. Satt sau ghore Leghari de, atesattsau piade ; ale sade hikk sau Sdmi piade te aswar apne naukar nafar, bell, bhra Mehr Shah, Dalian Shah, mat, Said Ali Shah. To asakfl hukra ditta jSandeman Sahib, ki tusa vanjo Kaure kfl pakkaro,
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Then the SsHb with Said Ali and others came to Yaqdb'g well, and summoned Jahangir Khan and his father, Kaura Khan. Yakub Khan and Gaman Khan were already at the well, they dwelt there. The Sahib commanded his orderlies to take Jabanglr Knan into custody. They had no sooner done so than word arrived that six score Kasrani guns under Mir Baz had come to attack the Sahib. Grey Sahib showed fight and was about to fire his pistol when Yakub Khan seized his arm and wrenched the pistol from him. They seized the Sahib and mounted him on a wretched pony ; they took the Sahib's horse for their own use, and said, "now you are our prisoner."
I was not then present, nor my father ; but my cousin was there." He shewed fight and said to the Sahib " Give the order and I will fight them." The Sahib replied " Dalian Shah, stand aside ; if you fight we shall both lose our lives ; do not provoke a row." All the others had run on seeing the trouble.
They took the Sahib, alone and helpless, toTibbi Kasrani, then they took him to Bat! in the hills. Mirza the SarisHadar who had rim away, sent word to my father that six score horsemen had carried off the Sahib. He sent Toda the Dasti from Babbi, a hamlet where Mehr Shah's disciples dwelt, and Mehr Shah went there for assistance. Then Nur Muhammad Khitian coming from Valoa with horsemen surrounded Bali. My father arrived afterwards with six score fighting men, thirty or forty mounted, the rest on foot. I too heard the news at Leiah, crossed the river, mounted, and joined my father.
My father fired his gun ; he hit nobody, for he fired into the air to frighten them. They also fired into the air. Then when I went and consulted with them they released Grey Sahib. He had spent a day and a night with them, and they released him in the afternoon. The Sahib arrived on foot, and mounted a camel behind my father, who took himloVahoa, eight miles away. The next da)' the Commissioner arrived. Grey Sahib entrusted his seal to Mehr Shah, spying " Go and either cut off Kaura's head or bring him in fetters/' When he set out from there, my father and I went to MangrSrha. There we sent word to Darvesh the Bozdar to bring Asha Khan. My father gave Asha Khan a royal gun worth six hundred rupees and said, " Come, make some plan, that we may capture Kaura Khan the Kasrani. You have only to say what reward you want. I will write an order, I am empowered, the Sahib has given me his seal."
Sandenian Sahib, who had received a telegram at Dera GhazI
Khan, came to Mangrotha from the Southern Dera ; and Nawab Jarmil
Khan the Leghari came. With him was Nar Ahmad the Leghari, father
of Din Muhammad*, with seven hundred horsemen.'
d_Thi5 late acting Tum.n- Thfee horgeg foundered on the road, for the
Legharis had heard that their priests had been
carried off as prisoners. Sandeman Sahib told my father to sil down and rest ; he showed us hospitality, and sent fat-tailed sheep, and made much of us. Said he " Now the Kasranis have come into my district, do not be in a hurry, consult with me.'' Then Sandeman Sahib sent Jamal Khan, Nar Ahmad Kh5n, the I.unds, the Khdsas, all of them with Mehr Shah,seven hundred Leghari hoise, and seven hundred foot ; and our hundred men, horse and foot, servants, followers, labourers, brothers, Mehr Shah, Dalian Shah, I, Said All Shah. And Sandenun Sahib ordered us to go and arrest Kaura. We went and camped in the Drugg Pass, The Government
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de darre de utte vanj tikcose, phir surs§d sakfl Sarkar ditta, atta, dana," pabaril, Ghario parwar, chauda sau ghore, pandra sau piade jama thigae — Bozdar, Leghari, KhSsa, Lund, as<a, Ustrana, Khitran jamaia jamla. Jamal Khan ne char adnii pstthea, ki Kaure Khan da sir kapp ghinnao, Malang, Bahar, Jana, te hikk Hajjani, muridS sade. Chhewa din vail aye, akheonhe, ki a?sa dadhi koshish kill, Kaura Mnsa Khel vich gea, Paind Khan de kile kot de vich ha, burj de utte baitha ha, aukhl ja he, assa charh nihs?e sakde, sau banduk unha de kol hann, assa char jawan kuchh nibsse kar sakde.
Kaure Khan de mansha eh5 ba, jo mal Kabul vanja. Phir dujrie dihare assa sabbhe" Musa Khel de vich pandhra koh aggo thfkar, inla da pan! vanj band ki a. Vail Paind Khan da vakil aya, je Sirkar hlkiX chhore, kasur rr.af kare, maldesa; nS; to Sirkar da ikhti)ar e, raaran marijan de sawa, mal iia desa.
Jamal Khan, Mehr Shah. Fazl Kasrani, iha salah kitose, ki assa sabbhg arz karesiS ?ahib k13, ki hlkfl phaln na de, na mare^i, kaid jehe thole wall kare, karesl. Pichchle Kaura Khan lachar thike aya, pakkar ghinneose Kaure kt(, Yakub ku ate Mir Baz. Gaman Khan ate hfl de za'a ate balS pahi!e pakkanj gae hann. Commissioner Sahib ne Kaure Khan kS trai sal kaid kita, JaVangir Khan ktt trai ?al kaid klta, !e unde hamrahia kii bl, unde jagir bi trai sal zabt klta; dher alam kaid ki a. Commissioner Sahib ziada kaid dean cbahanda ha, Grey Sahib unha kff bacbaeus, kiu* jo ass-a lok Kaure tie nalvaida kitose. Tarka Kaure Khaa da Sirkar ne nilam klta : mal d5 ghore te pan] manjia ghiddeum. Hikk nila ghora name Mahbub ma? cha ghiddeum ; dadha changa ghora ha, char sau rupiya dittum. J6 lok Grey Sahib kO madad nabl ditti, unha de utte hazar bara sau rupiya jarrlnaana Sahib ne klta.
S^ku sabbho jkhillat mill. Saku dhai sau rupive khillat* mill.
Chhittbi bi mill, inam bl mi'l, nau bazar chhe sau
Kh.llat, really a robe of pan:a[th acrg maf! pichchhe milea Mehr Shah kff.
s?vrasaanre8w0a"y£oPrrepS^. J^» Mehr Shah imrgea maik« do suls mihje, He service. The value of a mal theka bharenda triji samm da. Jili Hat is always slated.
Long after this story was taken down and translated, I was fortunate enough to meet Colonel Grey, who wrote the following note: —
This story agrees generally with the account quoted, from contemporary official records, in Utters which my grandsons published under the title "Tales of cur Grandfather" (Smith Elder, 1912).
But iLe stcry docs scant justice to my frieid and fellow-sportsman, S. Mihr Si ah, whom I had helped out of treubcin the hills that summer, as described in the above letters, and who repaid me in the autumn by his energy and hig religious influence among Biiuchis. The vigour of. the pursuit was due to him, as was the closing of the Kasiani-Bozdar passes which ended the matter.
All this appears in my grandsons' book, and what was thought of Mihr Shah's service is jhown by the large revenue grant mentioned in the last paragraph of the story.
Of course there are errors and exaggerations. The mur.ier was about a woman, thoug,h the Syads naturally ignore that. The account of happenings at Dera must be imaginary; the Commissioner and his Personal Assistant Beckett (Siggot) were at Shaikh Budln and knew nothing: my plans for this, as for fornur surprises, I always of course kept to myself: I only summoned at the last moment such Gandapur Chief? as happened to be in Dera, and merely told them to follow my boat. My destination may have been guessed from my riiref route, but I certainly newer told anyone, nor even saw Mihr Shah in Dera then.
On landing I went, not to the Syad-t, but straight to Yakub's well to effect the surprise. I cou'd not afford even to await the Gandapurs, whose boat I had seen an hour before, at dawn, rounding a bend some way behind rr.e. It was then that their boatmen must have taken the wrong channel, where the swollen rivet divided on a submerged island— an atcidentfor which no one was responsible,
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gave us supplies, flour, corn, hill sheep and goats. Protector of the poor, fourteen hundred horse and fifteen hundred foot were assembled ; bozdars, Legharis, Khosas, Lund?, ourselves, Ustranas, Kl etrSnis and all. Jamal Khan sent four men, our disciples, Mahang, Bahar, Janna, and a Hajjani to cut off Kaura Khan's head. On the sixth day they returned and said " We have drne our best, but Kaura has taken refuge with the Musa Khel, he was in a tower of Paind Khan's Fort. It is a difficult place ; we could not get up, there are a hundred guns with him, we four could do nothing."
Kaura Khan's intention was to go to Kabul. Then the next day T»e all went on fifteen kos into the Musa Khel country and cut off their water. Then Paind Khan's vakil came and said " If the Government will let him go and forgive his fault, I will give him up. If not, Govern- ment has the power to do what it likes, but I will not give him up with- out slaying or being slain."
Jamal Khan, Mehr Shah, Fazl the Kasrani, agreed among them- selves to beg the Sahib not to hang him or put him to death, only to imprison him for a short term. Then Kaura Khan came, in sore straits; we arrested him, and Yakab and Mir Baz. Gaman Khan and his wives and children had previously been captured. The Sahib imprisoned Kaura Khan for three years ; also Jabangir Khan and their companions ; he also suspended their jagirs for three years ; he imprisoned a great many men. The Commissioner wished to give longer terms of imprisonment, but because we had made a promise to Kaura, Grey Sahib saved them. The Government sold Kaura's property by auction. I bought two horses and five milch-buffaloes. One horse I got, named Mahbub, an iron grey, was a very good animal: I paid four hundred rupees for him. Those who had not helped Grey Sahib were fined a thousand or twelve hundred rupees.
We were all given presents of honour. Our present was worth two hundred and fifty rupees. We were also given certificates and rewards, Mehr Shah subsequently received 9,665 acres of tend free from revenue. When Mehr bhah died, I received two-thirds, I pay revenue on the other third.
« What is said (in two places) about cutting off Kaura's head is absurd ; also about my in- fluencing the Commissioner's judgment and sentence, passed later in the murder trial, on some promise of Mihr S'ah's! No promises were made to Kau-a, except mine to leave him un- molested in ths hilU pending orders from Government. When the Bosdars cut him off in front, and Mihr Shah's pursuit was close behind, I offered as above. Kaura, who w s man- fully preparing for defence, gladly accepted and I sent my ring to Mihr Shah with a message to stop the attack. He and the other notables came up to bold the powwow, and we left Kama the-e and rode back to Vahoa.
Jatangu got a long term, as he deserved, but later I obtained Kanra's pardon in acknowledgment of my service in negotiations with Arr.Ir Sher All of Afghanistan. He was an old acquaintance ; I thought his action somewhat excusable in a father; moreover, I considered that he had suffeied severely in tbesale of hn property to pay the cost of the operations
Happily Kaura wa* by no mean) ruined ; Mr. P. N. Broadway, who was for 14 years Dis- trict Superimend^nt of P lice of Dera from 1877 to 1891, knew him as a well-to-do yeoman leading a retired life at Tibbi. Only a few of the headmen were punished, the Commis- sioner ot course let off the rink and file. There were no jdjirs to suspend ; I cannot under- stand what the narrator refers to in saying so.
I may mention that I rret my old tegiment, the 1st Punjab Cavalry, at sundown, 40 miles from Dera, and the Punjab Rifles weie not very far behind. Now the garrison could not have been warned earlier than 2 or J A.w, that day. Such, Cfty years ago, was our grand Frontier Force — ready, ave ready.
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[This story is reilly told of *Balmik, who is worshipped by the sweepers. It is interesting
'See Pandit Han Kisheo *° n"'e h°w its *" been attributed to a notorious local per-
Knin'q Puniab Census »onaie- A« a matter of fact Saggal did not give up his
Report, I9II, Jage i Ji. ca'eer of c'ime' and wa> h*"Sed
STORY No. 32.
SAGGAL, THE ROBBER, AND WHY HE MENDED HIS WAYS.
JDera Ghazi Khan de zille vich bikk jawan Saggal thi guzare, Ejlha ki jaddSda paida thea, chori karan shuru kitus. Pichchhe tyakka chori karenda rahgeS. I Jdol
JDoi«=way. karenda ha, rah de utte jangal de vich rat din
luk bahnda. Jehre koi langa ha, Kirar ya Mussalman, hu ku hakkal
denda ha, ki khar6 ittahi, mal tusakG lutendS. Pichchhe jehre takre jawan
hunden drukke luk venden, jehre hine 6 khar thinden lutij venden. Jo unh?
kane § naddi rupiye ya kapre sa?e khass karai, ave apne ghar ghinnvende,
apne alam ktX deade. O dadhe Khush thinde han, ki d5dhe
change kapre aur change shal an dende. jehre
iaddi-propertj. ygl- ^-n ^ kar6nd§ ^ hfl ka taiw§r nal
mar ITsattenda h§, maddi ghinnvenda ghar. Do trai sal eho kamm kitus/pea ki ittifaq nal fakir
*iNot mar suttea, be- rah de utte milea. Fakir ku akheus ki kharvanj, cause thia is the imper- maikfl maddi, kapre, paise, takke, dittivanj. Hff fec», not the past. • » lkhf>5 ki t^-Qrte £ jehr§ Ve)6 ay'a, Saggal ko
any man happensd to resist, _., .. .ri-X, .1 mti/t'i. • . „
be used to km." akheus, ki mal fakir S mal kanfl kai sha« nah? ya
A. O'BRIEN. g8dri chade. Jawan ktt fakir akhf us, ki tu kai
kildenda? Mal apne ghar ku dene a" .Akheus ki
vanj apne ghar8 p_uchchh, sabhahi mal pakharij vanja, tusa mede
ralle jul dakhiso ? O jawan apne ghar gea, fakir bait' a rahgea, akhea ki
til phir a. Pichchbe ma kanit puchchheus ki " Amma ki sabhahi mal
dakhija tu meda sangiti thisS ? " Ma akheus, " Ki3 ki mal taiku*
ahda ki 13 chori vanj kar? " Vail gea puttar kanvf
puchchbeus, jawab mila " Mal ahda ki t« maikS
**porhia karke khawal. A«sa nihse julde tede nal." Pichchhe apnl zal kanvf puchchheus ki tu sangati thise" ? Zal jawab dittus ki " Otra
mof-a ! shala mare! assa taikC ahdal chori kar? Note these curses. AssS t&Jg ni,
Oh jawan fakir kS vail aya, fakir uw? bai^ha. Fakir akhea, ftHal de.
ttHal de. This story Hu akhea ki maikS sare jawab ditte, assa tede
was from a Baluch speak- sangati nihse thindal. Fakir akhea bas, sab
ing Muitanl. khawan de yar hann, aur hun jehre vele dh'.kki-
jan da na ghidde, har kai jawab ditta. Tt( galha na thi, kamm chhorde,
koi faida nahT. Jawan siana ha, fakir de samne
jjZari-vow. ^^a kjtuSj jjzari kitus, ki mal e kamm nakaresa.
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STORY No. 32.
SAGGAL, THE ROBBER, AND WHY HE MENDED HIS WAYS.
In district Dera GhazI Khan there was a man named Saggal who from his birth upwards was a thief. Later in life he was always thieving. He used to do as follows. Day and night he would remain hidden in the jungle near the road, and if any one came along, Hindu or Muhammadan, he would call out " Stop ! I am going to rob you." Then any stalwart fellows would run away and conceal themselves; weaklings etopped there and were robbed. He took whatever they had, goods, cash, clothes, and took them to his house and gave them to his family. They were very pleased that he gave them good clothes and good things. Any man resisting he would kill with his sword, and take his property home. He went on like this for two or three years, when it so hap* pened that he fell in with a holy man. He said to the holy man, " Stand and deliver your goods and clothes and pence." The latter said " Come here." When he came the holy man said to Saggal : " I am a holy man, you can get nothing from me except my patched garment." He asked the man " To whom do you give your spoils ? " "I take them home, and feed my children and they are very pleased." He said " You go and ask your folk at home if you are caught to-morrow morn- ing will they go to gaol with you ?" The robber went home, the holy man stayed there and told him to return. The robber asked his mother " Mother, if I am gaoled in the morning will you go with me?" She replied " Why, do I tell you to go and commit thefts ? " Then he went and asked his son and again met with a* 'This meaning of jawab refusal (,j keep telling you to feed me from
is always interesting. , . .r, TIL t -11
"He got his answer. " the earnings of honest labour; I will not go A. O'BRIEN. with you." Then he asked his wife if she would go with him. She replied "May you die childless ! Please God may you die! Do I tell you to thieve? I will not go with you."
He returned to the holy man who was still there. The holy man told him to tell his story. He said "They all ^refused, they will not come with me." The holy man said "Enough. Theirs is cupboard love, and now when you even speak of gaol every one rounds on you. Be not a fool ; abandon this worthless life." The robber was wise and in the holy man's presence he acknowledged his sin and took a vow not to thieve again.
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STORY No. 33*
THE THEFT.
Hikk dihare Iw£ 1)5 ki rot! tikhe khakar sutte. Ghar wa'e dl tritnat akhea, fulane da piu, khuh te van], dS ra^hak ghinna, kiflki riff mehmaa- *Nam, i.e., shab nam. sutt^ P*'n> kl u«ha de ghore du kharS, mat, a koi This term 'used by a dushman awe, mehmava de ghore ghinnvanje. B&luch speaking Jattki. Jawan jawab ditta, ki him nitnh! venda. Zal puchcha "Kltf'nihve vendg?" O akhea ki rat andhari he,* nam da mausim h^, mal nimhi venda.
Hu vele chor undi galh sunde pain. Hikk unhe vich8 si§na ha, hiSf
akhea, ki iwe karo, mehmana de ghore na chord, munasib nahl, hun I
jawan de jugge kiX luto. Mausim hunala ha, har koi bahar sutte pain.
Pichchhe chor gae andar. Dff kothe hain, unha vicb pae ga5«
Jehri maddl labhiuhe sare chatinhe,J sawar tal cha gae. Pichchhe fijr
dlh thea gharwale Sardar Sahib kv( dSh ditta, sare
hal dittus ki IwS thea. Sardar Sahib hukm ditta,
ki ma! sabahi sawel asa, unhe chora de paire kaddh satte.
Sabahi Sardar Sahib charhea, mauqa te aya, uttahi latha, sare bastiwale jawang ku saddaeus, sare ikatthe a the-e, phir puchh guchh kitus, koi patta na lagga. Hi waste Sardar Sahib hukm ditta, ki badmash log jama karo. Unha kff akheus, Tusa chSri kit! hai ? Chori dassS. Unhe akhea, Assa koi bad! nahl kiti. Pan] badmash hain, pichchhe unhS kil panj lakkri dittus, sare barabar. Hukm dittus, ki h»n vanjs Spne ghar ; jindi lakkar savere vaddi thlsi, chor uhd hai. Pichche rat har k5i apne ghar sutte. PanjS jawanS vich8 hikk chor ha, Apne dil vich khial kitus ki lakkar medi saveie vaddi thi-sl. Pichchtie kuhari cba andus, kujh lakkar kapp ghiddus, phir sutte. Save:« Sardar Sahib akhea, ki chor eho e'; pakkari). BinhS kt( rukljsat kitus, hi ku kaid kitus.
THE THEFT. 0J
STORY No. 33-
THE THEFT.
One day it so befell that they ate their food early and slept. The good wife said to her husband " O father of so and so go to the well, call two of the men, for have we not two guests sleeping here ; make them stay near their horses lest an enemy come and steal them." The man replied "I will not go now." His wife asked " Why will not you go ?" He replied "It is a dark night, the dew is falling, I will not go."
Now, even then, thieves were listening to their conversation. One -M of them was wise, he said " Let us do like this ;
hoSty amoT'Lla! leave the "gists' horses, it would not be fair chis. to take them, let us loot this man's house." It
was the hot weather, and every one was sleeping outside. They went in and whatever they found in the two rooms they carried off, down to
a quilt. In the morning, when it was day, the hisfurcan. "°f R°od man laid a complaint before the tSardar
Sahib, and told him the whole story. The
Sarclar ordered, "I will come in the morning; follow the tracks of the thieves."
In the morning the Sardar Sahib mounted, and came to the spot, and halted there. He summoned all the men living at the hamlet, and all came. Then he made enquiry, but found out nothing. Hence he ordered all bad characters to be assembled. He said to them " Did you commit the theft ? Confess. " They replied " We commit- ted no theft." There were five bad characters. At last he gave them five sticks, all of the same length. He ordered them to go home and wboever had the longest stick in the morning would be the thief. That night every one slept in his own house. Now one of the five was the thief; and he thought in his heart that his stick would be the longest in the morning. He took a hatchet and cut off part of his stick. In the morning the Sardar said, " This is the thief; arrest him.-" He dismissed the others and imprisoned hi da.
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STORY NO. 34.
A QUARREL.
Manke de vicbo* kassi nikaldi, hft kassi kanfl chhi khuh pani ploden, Rikk jawan parr kanu" mannda ha, roz dujbe trije Sardar Sahib kfl dhah dtinda ha, ki maikfi pani khah de waste nahl denden, iredi rarh sukh gef hai. Sardar hikk sowar ku hukm dittus> TG vanj, varabandl kar. Oa\a ;hhi khuhw§le jawan saddeus, A katthe theg. O Sowar akhea ki tusa* pan] jawan pan! gharrb kfl kift nihve dende ? Unhe jawane jawab ditte ki ih5 jawan bar rat kassi ku lorh vende. Sowar hB jaw_an kanS puchchhea ki e galh sach e ? Hu akhea, koi nahl, e kur e, E daulatmand han, saukhe jawan.
Pichchhe panje jawan? sowar kfl akhea, ki tijf jul, rarh kft dekh, Yl jawan di aur sadi rarh kQ bi dekh. Ralle ravana thee, mance jawan di rarh ditthus, e rarh sari sawi khan e, rarh pakkan kanu tiar e. Vail agge binha di rarh dekhan gae. Uttha vanj ditthus ki du vakhre sawe hikk vakhra sukha. Sowar akhea, ki ao julS Sardar kantt tusaku pesh karna e. Pichchhe digar de vele ha, ki Saraar kachchehii te ba:tha ha, 6 jawan .vail aya. Sardar puchchhea, ki Yar Muhammad Khan kva faisla karaeo ? Akheus, ki tusa Sardar kuchh na puchchho, e sate kur e, harkat hi mande di. Khan akhea kiwe hal ? Yar Muhammad jawab ditta, ki mai mauqa m\5ha da ditthe aur ma! chare panjS jawane sadd karaye, puchchhum kya galh hai, unhe maikui rarh dikhalea. Rarhl d:ttham, mande jawan dr rarh sawf sari, tfdi rarh ku pani di lor kai nahl. Sardar Sahib naraz thca, mande jawan ku akheus, ki tu vail e kamm kar, mal dhakk de^a. Pichchhe vail gea apne ghar, hit di zal apng putr kan akhea, Iff apne piQ kan^jf puchchh, ki kya karaee. HQ de piu jawab ditta, ki mal kuchh nahl kl'a, hattho Sardar mede uttS naraz thea. Piu kfl akheus, ki til nikabil he*, mal aj.! vanj kassi lurhenda. Mal dekha ki ehija jawan howe ki_mede nal a bhire. Hv( kuhari apne ghar 81 chati, vanj kassi lorhis. O bee jawan agge lukke ba;the hann, hakkal djttus, Na vese, infe vail a, unte nS van. Pichchhe o jawan khare tlee. O char jawan, 6 hikk ha, bhire. O char hikk-ku kuttonhe. Pichche; vail gae apne ja te. Pichchhe hikk rahi jawan anda pea. Hil ditt^a ki hikk jawan sutta pia, hu di ]an kan3 ratt disdi pai he, dadha ph.itt a pea he. HQ puchchhea ki iff kaun 6, tede nal kaun bhire ? Pichchl-e 6 ghar gea, jawan ku katre de utte cha kara, e Sardar kft ghiddonhe dekha'an waste. Sardar e char jawan saddwaeus, unha kiX dadha maraeus, pichchhe panjah panja.4 rupiye jurmana likheus. Phattea jawaa atthwe dihare changa bhalla thea, Sardac hitku panjah rupiye muavisa ditta.
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A QUARREL.
A certain water-course takes out of the Manka Canal and from __. that water-course the lands of six wells* are water-
w \ he ststerr.ent tnat *,—.... i • AI. r j
well is watered from a ed. One of the owners was lame in the f >ot, and canal distributary needs every second or third day he used to complain to elucidation, in the Muiti.1 tbe Sardar, that the others did not give him water,
Province awell means not , .. ... » T«L e j* j
only the weii itteif but and his crops were withered. The Sardar ordered the knd attached. The a horseman to go and arrange distribution by people hate working wells, turns, He came and summoned the six owners of ^.t'lhe^bouTth^ the wells and they assembled. He asked - Why a re accustomed to depend don't you five give water to this poor fellow? mainly on canal water, They replied " This is the man who cuts the water- feSSSjK&SS «>«"« every nigh,.'' The horseman asked him in desert oases, the im- ' Is this true? and he replied " No, indeed ; it memorial mean* of cuiti- is* false. They are well-to-do and in easy cir- **tion' cumstances. "
Then the other five said to the horseman, " Come and see the crops, this man's and ours too. " They went off together. He saw the lame man's crops; they were all green and nearly ripe. Then they went on to the crops of the others and saw that two-thirds were green, one-third withered. The horseman said " Come, let us go, you must appear before the Sardar " Then in the afternoon as the Sardar was sitting in court the man came again. The Sardar enquired "Well, Yar Muhammad Khan, what settlement did you bring about?" He replied, " O Sardar ask no questions. It's all a lie, and that lame fellow is at the bottom of the matter." The Khan asked "What's all this ?" and Yar Muhammad replied " I saw the head of the outlet, and called together four or five of them, and asked what was the matter, and they shewed me their crop?. I sav.' the crops; the lame man's are all green and need no water. " The Sardar was angry, and said to the lame man, " You do this again and I will imprison you." Then he returned home and his wife said to her son, " Ask your father what was done." His father replied " I did nothing, butt the Sardar was angry f h'JSS8"0" tbe °thef with me." The son said " Ycu are fit for noth-
band. _ , . ,
A. O'BRIEN. ing, I will go myself, and cut the water-course.
I will see if thefe be one made of stuff to fight
with me." He took an axe from the house and went and cut the water-course. The other men were lying hidden, they warned him back " Do not go ; go back from here, don't go there." Then they got up ; there were four of them, and he was alor.e, and they fought, and they beat him. Then they returned home. After a while a traveller came along and saw a man lying unconscious, blood-stained, and badly hurt. He asked, " Who are you and who quarrelled with you ?" Then he went to his home, and they bore the injured man on a charpoy to shew him to the Sardar. The Sardar sent for those four and had them well beaten, and afterwards he wrote an order fining them fifty rupees each. The injured man got well in a week, and the Sardar gave him fifty rupees compensation.
MULTANI SONGS.
i.— O! COME BACK!
Muddat guzrl peyS judayS! nikhar giyS dil khass, vg *vall v§pas vg.
Tafl kSran ghar bar sattyum bal bache fas kass, ve vail vapas ve.
Mulla, JBhope, Bahman, §JosI, koi na dewam dass, vg vail vapas vg.'
J6 kujh klo changl klt5 hei, shabas, shabas, ve vail vapas vg.
Ghamnak de J[chak chhutae, zulm kanfl kar bas, ve vail vapas ve.
Aj kal awan kito, mahl tedi ajkal mul na khu^di.
Sang hijar dl lag! him, plr jigar vich utthdf.
Hadd cham jal bal kgri thag, ajan soztf jind n£ chhuttg.
Ghamnak firak dl rat bhalrl, ajan para na phutte.
Attkhe umar guzaran ta^( bin dukkhe" dlh guzarde, zulra kahar c!g.
^[Naksh nigar atg **angdhang dil tflhargiz nahl visarde tal dilbard£.
Jindrl galyum vail n2 bhalyo tarf ihT abdar de nal mehr dg.
Sir de veri nal kahlde iho jeha nahl karendg tore" ft sarde.
Pae bhugtesiK chhor nS vgs\j( churhdg raarde thike JJbarde.
Mol na lahsim §§kabr vichale ihyo dagh jigar dg dard adardg.
Ghamnak faryad karesS aggS rab akbar dg roz [||]hashar dg,
Yar me4a, dildar meda, na kar t8 man va4dai hikk mehr dl.
Did na bhalg iwe mgdl gal gai umar ajai Ttsikk tedi vich. Ruldea phirdeS maikiX wisryum ma plfl bhai, bekas sai sai ArzS kitia thei, manzur na kai.
*Vall vapas \e=O ! come back (or an- other rendering) vail vapas de — O ! give back, i.c., my heart).
t As kass=one's own and strangers.
JBhopa, a person, generally of low caste, exhilarated by dancing, supposed to be under the influence of Jinns, who answers questions
soothsayer.
§J5si=astrologer.
l|3hak=wound (only metaphorical).
*[Naksh nigar=feature9. **Angdhang=form.
tfSarda=capable of exercising power (to hurt).
$$Barda=3lowest servant. §§Kabr=grave.
II || Hashar=]'udgment« T1TSikk=affect!on.
O ! COME BACK, 6g
i— .O ! COME BACK l
Many days have been passed in separation. Thou hast taken my heart and gone away.
O ! come back !
For thee I have given up house and home, Children, relatives and neighbours.
O ! come back !
Neither MullSs nor BhopSs, Prahmans nor astrologers, give me any clue.
O ! come back ! Whatever thou hast done is good ; well done, well done.
Only corr.e back 1 Heal up the wounds of (this) grief-stricken one ; enough of harshness.
O ! come back !
Thou art always saying " I am coming soon ;" to thy " soon," O beloved ! there is no end.
The spear of separation has struck me, there is a pain at my heart
Bones and skin are burned to ashes, yet (I have) no relief from pain.
Dawn has not yet broken on the terrible night of grief and separa- tion. •
It is hard to bear life without thee ; the days of torture are hard to pass.
0 my beloved, I cannot forget thy face and form.
1 have wasted my life ; still thou hast not looked back with kindness
at wretched me.
A mortal enemy would not treat one so, although he had the power. I will suffer alone, but will not depart, whether ill or dying, for I am thy slave.
The wound in my heart and the pain in my soul will never leave me even in the grave.
Before God Almighty on the Day of Judgment a heartrending com- plaint will 1 make.
My sweetheart, my beloved, be not so proud ; in mercy alone is greatness,
Without seeing much, my life has been ruined in my desire for thee. Wandering I have forgotten mother, father, brother.
In desolation I have offered up hundreds of prayers, but not one has been granted.
MULTANI SON7GS.
2.— THE PAINS OF LOVE.
Woman's lament,
Yar nS nere atS bar koi jhere, bun kede mffh karije ? Maut awe ya vatt thiwe *mela, ta azad thiwije. Na vatt kh^sh kabile tiX nitt tmebre Jhabb rabi;g. Kya puchhd? ? Ghamnak sablie bin. Nib de ih natije. Hikk arz kltiura dil janl ktlf, cbup karke langh venda. Baih §goshe samjbawa dil ktt nS gbinn nS sobrie da Nahl wafa vich inda ki\X dil pea khas venda Bekas darda mul na chborya tore rihum kandh valeoda.
Man1 s reply.
Dil kbas iha gi8 kandh vala dasa, rutbiyS bhi tu. Bolan nS sengbia piu te ma Tmehre sada, ruthiyS bhi itf. Shorat malamat mah sawa be wafa, ruthiy3 bbi tu. Dar dar rulayo kar kar gada kabl him kha ta, ruthiyS bbi tvf. HKhadina raba dar te sada, wah wah wafa, ruthiyS bbi tff.
• mela= meeting.
§gosha=corner. tmehre=reproaches,
||K.hadim=the Servant, MOOT de plume ~of the author.
THE PAINS OF LOVE. 7t
2.— THE PAINS OF LOVE. Woman s lament.
My lover is not at hand J every one quarrels with me, whither shall 1 turn ?
If I could die, or meet him again, then I should be free from care. No longer should 1 be a mark for the ceaseless reproaches of my kin and family.
What do they ask ? All are sorrowful. This is the result of love.
1 begged one thing from my lover, but he was silent and went awav. Sitting alone I said to my heart " Talk not of this handsome one."
Why then let your heart be stolen if there is no faithfulness in him ?
Unhappy that I am, pain does not leave me ; although I kef p turning my back on it.
Maris reply.
You say that I have taken away your heart and turned my bade, whereas it is you who are angry.
My companions do not talk to me, my father and mother are always reproaching me, and you are angry.
Always disgrace and reproach (for me), and you faithless and angry.
I am like a beggar wandering from door to door. What sin have I committed, and you too angry?
Khadim has always remained at your door, praising steadfast faith, but ycu are angry.
MULTANl SONGSr
•
g.-QAF.
KSsIda taikff kasm e Rabb d!,
Vanj akhl yar kfl iwe :
Shala jlwe, bar damm jiw£,
*Aslo pura mQl na kito
Hun ikrar US iwe, shala jiwS,
tTaga de vich gal ditto hi
Sade fhar §singar kG iwe, shala jlwe,
flThadi mul na l»a-i hargiz tal dildar kG Iwe, shala j!w3f
A Naur5za, m^! kai taT tkukS
Hi **azar kfl Iwe-shala ji
•Aslo, pura, mul, all mean entirely. fTag = delay. $Har — necklet,
Singar = decoration, toilet. ||ThS = becoming.
1TKuk«- prolonged cry, complaint j kukan = to cry, comp.ain.
**Azar-pain.
Y,.J.— Shala jiwe, lit., "please God, may you live." ShaJa is an interjection of deske ; meaning " please God, would to GoJ."
4.— THE SLAVE OF GUDAS,
Mae! *ni ma! malamat kar na maiktX ! Mai Kech kanu na mursa, Iha jan piari lakh lakh van fSadke yar de karsa. Yar vassaea ta vas vesa ; Ujrl pujrl marsa : Yar Gudas di banhl bardl thike ; JSir te tans a, panl bharsa. *NI MS, ni is an interjection used io addressing a wjman,— * page 32, Revised Glossary.
fSadke, gift; iS^-o propitiatory offering; UL». «>j^ to offer myself as a sacrifice for an ether.
JThe meaning of Sir te tansa is literally I mil warp on my head, i.e , do the mast difficult work with great pleasure.— H, Ki Kf
THE SLAVE OF GUDAS. ?3
3.-QAF.
O Messenger, in the name of God I beg thee,
Go and speak thus to my lover :
" Heaven grant thee life, life for ever
In nowise hast thou kept troth.
(Heaven grant thee life)* By tarrying thou hast ruined all my adornment, made for thee.
(Heaven grant thee life.) This was in no wise becoming to thee, my beloveJ.
(Heaven grant thee life.) O NauroBj how long shall I cry out my pain to thee?
Heaven grant thee life,"
4.— THE SLAVE OF GUDAS.
0 Mother ! O Mother ! reproach me not,
1 will not turn back from Kech,
I will lay down this dear life a thousand times
As a sacrifice for my lover.
If he allows me to live with him, I will live with him,
Deserted I shall die.
I will be the slave of my lover GudSs ;
I will do anything for him, even carry water;
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MULTANI SONGS.
5.— THE SWEETS OF LOVE.
(Man speais.)
A *MahI, tede awan de lakh ihsan manesa, Kadara churresa, fSis nawe.-S, Istikbal karesS. Unhe Jsengia §tane dendia kfl sadd : teda husn rli
( Woman spea h. ) HMehmani ^[Mauroz •'''sajjan kfl, Malttmitthra tJjoban desa, Kol bhifesa-, Dukh vadhe a Aish karesa.
*MahI = name of beloved.
fSls = hawing of the head at prayer.
JSenga, F. SengI, companion^ person of fame age.
§Tana=*reptoach.
Ij Meh.T.fuu, fr. mehman. TNauroz = narre of the lover. **Sajjan = lover.
hjra = sweet. J6ban=youth.
6.— THE AGONY OF SEPARATION. Muddat hoi yar na milea, Hai velSgo ^luttia:
KS udendi, Pir surendi, rah balendi ftiuttiS.
« JBismil vange pai tarpavva.
Nitt §hijjar di kutthia
Bhairi amn jor pilaeum dard lakha di3 ghuttiS.
•Luttna = rob. fHuttna = be tired.
JBismil = animal or bitd with throat half cut (from the word Biamillah, used a slaughter).
|Hijj[%r = separation.
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5.—THE SWEETS OK LOVE. (Man speaks.)
Come dear I will offer a hundred thousand thaoks-givings for thy coming,
I will kiss thy feet, I will bow to thee, I will go to meet thee.
Summon thy reproachful companions, and I will shew them thy beauty.
( Woman speaks.) To my lover Nauroz as a feast, I will offer my sweet youth, I will seat him beside me, I will share his pains, 1 will do him delight.
6.— THE AGONY OF SEPARATION.
Long is it since I saw my love,
0 good people, I am robbed :
1 am weary cf sending off the crows,* of asking aid from my Plr, of
burning the evil off the road, I flutter in agony like a bird being slain. Parted from thee, every day I die anew.
O cursed Mother, thou hast made me drink deep at my birth of the potion of endless pain.
*A pretty superstition amongst women expecting anybody, They frghten the crows, and when the birdj return and cw, say it is a mesia^e that the visitor is coming.
7.— DAL.
Dil meda mede vas nahl, Khavand an teda muhtaj kHa, Khawan plwan ate rind ararn gium, Tedi surat betab kita. Yi *tazi ftrukkl mal sai bare dit^g» Jinne tai ^arige pae Jghumaz kite. Yi naz §nawaz hai Rabb ku bha nahl Mata [jsikkdi vanj^ hi gharib kite.
* fail, I think means Arab — Arab tricks.
In Persian literature the Turks are famous for coquetry.— H- PHILBY.
fTrukki = ptide, arrogance
JGhumar, A. ghamz °> archness. H. PHILBY.
§Naz nawaz, = coquettishness. HSikkna - to desire, be desirous.
DAL 77
7.— DAL.
My heart is not under my control,
God has made me in need of thee,
Appetite, peace, sleep, have all fled,
Thy form has made me restless.
These airs and graces have I seen a hundred times,
In those who have displayed coquetry like thee.
This coquetry is displeasing to God.
Perhaps thou will yet come to long for thy wretched lover.'
78 MULTANI SONGS.
A BALLAD OF MUZAFFAR KHAN.
[Nawab Muzaffar_Kba", Saddozai, was in power at Multan from 1779 ta 1818. His relations towards the Kabul authorities are described by Sir Edward Maclr.gan as « very vary, ing and indefinite.'1 He had been installed by Taimur Shah of Kabul as Subahddr of the fort or probably the province of Multan, but his authority never extended to the old Mughal Subah of that name. The ballad which follows must have been composed to commewotate the •great siege of Multan in 1807 by Ranjit Singh, which had to be abandoned, and its capture by the Sikhs in 1818 by the powerful Sikh forces a whose head Prince Kharak Singh entered the fort in triumph after Muzaffar Khan and five or six of his e;ght sons had been slain. Descen- dants of the Nawab'a family are still found in the Punjab, though not in th* Multan District. — H, A.R.]
Sahib sach yar, jo kuchh cha-chahe, s5 cha-kare, karda palak na
lahnl ! Multan hunke thor daur kinl Ranjit Singh, Sikh sant kahe : " Yih
Khakeka'8shahni.'' *TQria, 5sarnahe, 6dhatkar, 7(ghore) 8behra ke 9turiS aur 10nadh jaise
dadar "ghQrahe,
Ate log dolS, na dole ^Mudaffar Kfcan. Char chak kahe: " Ih Nawab wah wane ! "
Dlgar. Charhe k&tak 18dham-dham, 14ga|raj8 ki aspS ki gard chand suraj
chhipahe,
Rawi, 15Dia doli, Jfcelam na 16Chinha bo1!, Atak ga'i larz kha'e. Tira, 17Rutas, Atak, Kangra, Sialk5t, Bhimbar, Gujrat, Punch, bharl
18majba'e. Ate log dole, na dole Mudaffar Khan. Char chak kahe : " Ih Nawab
wah wahe ! " Kullu Kot 19kan-payo, Jamna ko *°bhlr pari, Mathragarh dolat,
Kalkatta man! S1rajah?. Pahle Chunia Kasur mare : Patban ralke a'e sare, an kina salam,
" TQ hi sada tadshah? !" Indra kia "ghata dallo ke dal lakh, S8gheria Multan shahr kotS4lang
lahS: Ate log dol?, na dole Mudaffar Khan. Char chak kahe: « Ih
Nawab wah wahe ! "
^Multan Gazetteer, 1901-02, page 55. SMult.in Gazetteer, 1901-02 pages 57-9. 8Or Shah hat, ths M S. here being uncertain.
*Ghorid is also given in MS. for tuna (trumpets), Ghotla" would have no meaning. B5artt<zA=(Ht.) the inflated skin of an animal, used as a buoy for carrying people over a stream : here= Ptrs. turnd, a elation, hautboy or pipe. °Dhatkdr = noise.
''Chore (sic. in MS.) It appears to be a meaningless interpolation. *Behrd = (lit.) ' heroes." °Turid = trumpets. *°Nddh = pipes — such as Jogis use. 11Ghurdhi = murmur, croak. "Throughout the MS. has Mudaffar for Muzaffar;
1*Dh&'H'dhdm = hustle ; dhum from Sanskrit, tumul (P), according to Maya Singh, t,v. I'Gajrdj = King elephant.
155/c in MS. for Biah, the Beas, sometimes callei the DI». *«Sic in MS. for Chinab, the Cheaab. I'Note the form Rulas for Rohtas. i*Majhdt from miinjhnd = to become sad or downcast. ivKdnpayo, U. kdmpnd = to tremble. soShir parna = to be overwhelmed with misfortunes.
viRaj'd it. rajnd = to be full or satisfied. The expression seems to anticipate out ffedup-'l
**Ghat = cloud, *sGhernd = to surround. **Gherid fang fgr lang gherta,
A BALLAD OF MUZAFFAR KHAN. 79
A BALLAD OF MUZAFFAR KHAN.
Translation. The Lord is true, He does what He wills, and He does it speedily I
Ranjlt Singh marched to MultUn, the Sikhs and saints said that he was the lord of the KhSlsa.
The trump?ts and bagpipes of the soldiery blazed and give out sounds like frcgs,
And though the people lose heart, Muzaffar Khan will not: let the four quarters of the eaith sound his praises.
The troops marched in pomp, and the Raja's elpphants and horses hid the moon and sun with their dust,
w
The Ravi and the B?a? were afraid, the Jh°lucn and the Chenab were silent (from fear), and the Indus shivered in its terror.
*Tira, Rohtas, fAttock, Sialkor, Bhimbar, Gujrat, {Punch, all were terrified.
And though the people, etc.
§Kulu Kot trembled, the Jumna was frightened, Mathragarh trembled and proud Calcutta was overawed,
First Chuni§n and KasQr were captured: the Pathans all came in a body ; they did homage and said : "Thou art our King I "
The armies were in numbers as Indra's clouds : They encompassed Multan city and its suburbs.
And though the people, etc.
* Tiiii, explained to mean Mandi territory, but doubtless Tira-Sajanpur, the capital of one of the K*to:h principalities in K&igra. Or, possibly, Titan, west of the Peshawar District may be meant, but the context makes this very unlikely.
f Atak, i.e., the Indus, the river being nimei as often from the town on its bank.
$ Punch, now a fief of Ka.hmir.
§ Kulu Kot. probably ' Ku'.u and its ne'ghbouring forts.'
[I am inclined to think it nuans Kulu Proper, and Kot, in outer Saraj, loath of the Jal.tr! Pais.— H. A. ROSE.]
8o MULTANI SONGS.
Charhla jab Kharak Singh faujS kl jor ghata Hharkat zaml 2phir parbat dolah£,
Qutb-ud-din Khan Pathan vakil tarafS maharaja karta hai bata nal 3gcde lagahe".
Sunle Qutb ud-dfn Khan Pathan, mainff na kaho kalam yih kot tyag dena rahi bha!8 kl rahe.
Ate log do'£, na dole Mudaffar Khan. Char chak kahe : " Ih Nawab wah wahe ! "
Dtg&r.
C'naudhrl Ghu'am Ghaus pahucha Nawab pa?, milkar kachehri beh goshe samjhahe.
Kate dhia, jor vekhS Maharaja ka, HindQ Musalman 4jinka niwan tamam hain.
Mera «am hai Mudaffar, mal 5Sultan Multan hun ka, Ahmad Shah bha'i jaisa Kabul badsbaliS.
Ate l5g do'.e, ra doie Mudaffar Khan. Char chak kahe : f Ih Nawab wah wal.8 ! '
Dtgar.
Mal 6hoS Pathan sa'ana karu SikhS ko ? Mere man Indar tegh war h5ne ka chahe.
Lakl.a hazara karora ke kai-i Tganj Kharak Singh Raja mflh 8hila
farma'e. 9NIwia Multan kot 10amar man 11maul5 ka, suna Mudaffar darwaza
l2bajaVe. Ate log dolg, na do'e Mudaffar Khan. Ch2r chak kahe : " Ih Nawab
wah wahS ! "
Dtgar.
Tegh pakri Pathan, te juti an dalll 8 me rundam par mundam loth
1 3loth me* samahe, Blbi pakrl talwar pahn burqa' bahir a'l ma: la talwara mUh kise
na dekhaia. Rat8 kl gang chali jai?e Sanv\an darya hale, de 14dan8 bhag-chale,
Kaljogan ga'i larza a'e.
Ate log dolS, na dole Mudaffar Khan. Char chak kahe : 4 Ih Nawab
waheV
Phir he Dalpat Rai : Rabb Sachcfce kl dargah jedl wal ohl fatuh uskl manahe.
» Thar 'aknd — to tremble.
*Phir par bat= Parbat, a Sanskrit word, means mountain or hill.
3 joda lagana = to kneel.
*Jinko niwan tamdm=to whom all pay homage, i.e., to whom all the Hindus and Mu*
hammadans pay homage.
ESuba is given as a varia lectio for Sultan and would be more correct. °Hud, hod from hona = to be. ''Ganj, lit.,™ treasure. 8Hild, from kilnd=>to move.
gNoidn niwid, from nivna, to kneel, to bow down, to pay homage. *°Amar, lit.=command. 1 13f an ld~ master, God.
**Bajd, from bajdnd, i. e.t khatkhatana«to knock at the door. ls£o*&=a corpse. 1 'Sanskr, ddnara, a god's chief minister : common in the Simla HiUs;
A BALLAD OF MUZAFFAR KHAN. 81
When Kharak Singh marched, he had armies like the clouds, which shook the earth and also the hills.
Qutb-ud-dln Khan Pa than,1 the Maharaja's ambassador, on his knees besought the Nawab.
(Muzaffar Khan speaks :— )
0 Qutb-ud-din Khan Pa^han 1 Listen 1 Speak not a word to mft To surrender one's fort and sword is not the deed of a true man 1
And though the people, etc.
The Chaudhrl Ghulam Ghaus went to the Nawab and seeing him in bis court talked with him in private : —
" Reflect and see the might of the Raja, all Hindus and Musal- mans bow down to him."
(Muzaffar Khan replies: )
"My name is Muzaffar Khan,2 I am the governor of MultSn, as my brother, Ahmad Shah, was King of Kabul ;
And though the people, etc.
1 am a Pat! an, shall 1 bow to Sikhs? I fain would use my sword. Raja Kharak Singh with thousands has challenged me."
By'the grace of God, the Multan fort was delivered up, hearing this Aiuzaiiar knocked at the gate of the Fort
And though the people, etc.
The Pathan seized his sword and rushed amid the foe, causing head to fall upon head and corpse upon corpse.
His wife too seized a sword and, putting on a burqa,\ came cut and fought with the sword, but diu not show her face 10 any one.
Streams of blood flowed like rivers in Sawan, the monsters fled -away and the Kaljogan also trembled.
All the people, etc.
Saith 3Dalpat Rai : He whose part the true God takes conquers.
The end.
'Otherwise unknown.
•His name does not appear in the pedigree-tables given by Maclagan, op. cit. pages 162-3.
>Da1pat Rai, a poet of Lahore, where there is still a school of poets, recruited by the adoption of apprentices in the rhymer's Art.— H. A. Ross.
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