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Updated: May 14, 2025
For the secret was known by two women Unandi, Mother of the Heavens, and Baleka, my sister, wife of the king; and by two more Macropha and Anadi, my wives it was guessed at. How, then, should it remain a secret forever?
Give him to me that I may take him outside the kraal and wake him to life by my medicine." "It is of no use the child is dead," said Anadi. "Give him to me, woman!" I said fiercely. And she gave me the body. Then I took him and wrapped him up in my bundle of medicines, and outside of all I rolled a mat of plaited grass.
So we went on, and piece by piece I learned what had happened at the king's kraal. On the day after I left, it came to the ears of Chaka, by the mouth of his spies, that my second wife Anadi was sick and spoke strange words in her sickness. Then, taking three soldiers with him, he went to my kraal at the death of the day.
"I have recovered the child, women," I said, as I undid the bundle. Anadi took him and looked at him. "The boy seems bigger than he was," she said. "The breath of life has come into him and puffed him out," I answered. "His eyes are not as his eyes were," she said again. "Now they are big and black, like the eyes of the king." "My spirit looked upon his eyes and made them beautiful," I answered.
"Yes," he answered; "it is well. It is pleasant, moreover, my mother and sister, to see you kissing yonder child. Surely, were he of your own blood you could not love him more." Now they trembled again, and prayed in their hearts that Anadi, the sick woman, who lay asleep, might not wake and utter foolish words in her wandering.
"Many have come to ask for vengeance on that head," said the voice of the Queen of the Heavens, "and many more shall come. Fear not, Unandi, it shall fall. Fear not, Anadi and ye wives and children of Mopo, it shall fall, I say.
Now it chanced that shortly after Chaka had spoken thus, my sister Baleka, the king's wife, fell in labour; and on that same day my wife Macropha was brought to bed of twins, and this but eight days after my second wife, Anadi, had given birth to a son.
Presently, as I stood, a handful of people came up from the bank of the river. I looked on them and knew them. There was Unandi, the mother of Chaka, there was Anadi, my wife, and Moosa, my son, and all my other wives and children, and those who had perished with them.
The deities and the Asuras have never been able to ascertain my beginning, my middle, or my end. It is for this reason that I am sung as Anadi, Amadhya and Ananta. I always hear words that are pure and holy, O Dhananjaya, and never hold anything that is sinful. Hence am I called by the name of Suchisravas.
But I knelt over him and called in his ear the names of all those of my blood who had died at his hands the names of Makedama, my father, of my mother, of Anadi my wife, of Moosa my son, and all my other wives and children, and of Baleka my sister.
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