ਚੌਪਈ ॥

Chaupaee

When he came to know of the fact that his righteous-daughter had come,

He opened up the all his repositories and gave her a send-off befitting a real daughter.(12)

Mantar Kala said to her father, ‘The righteous-sister is too dear to me.

‘’Today, I will take her with me and will entertain her in our gardens.(13)

‘Then while taking her to her palace happily, she said,

‘As you are very dear to me, you can come into my palanquin.(14)

‘We both will go talking, and eradicate our afflictions.’

‘Then they climbed the same palanquin and came to thejungle.(15)

When the palanquin was passing through the city, the people gave them the way.

They were not visible and were involved in making love.(16)

In spite of their indulgence in lovemaking, no body noticed them through the market.

On the shoulders of eight bearers, the lover was holding beloved’s legs in his arms.(17)

As the palanquin was moving, the lover was enjoying the swings.

As the bearers swung the palanquin while walking, she clung to the lover’s shoulders.(18)

The palanquin was placed in the jungle and they relished in lovemaking invariably.

He had received untold amount of money and, as a result of this, took woman to his country.(19)

The girl wrote a letter and left in the palanquin and told her parents that,

‘I liked this handsome man and for that I played afl this game.’(20)

‘She was not your righteous daughter, which I had taken in the palanquin with me.

‘His hair had been removed with a medicine and he had put on women clothes and ornaments.(21)

‘We have had lot of riches and I have met his parents.

‘Since the time I left you, I have relished living with him.(22)