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Updated: June 6, 2025
Now he, forgetful of the dead man's warning, played with the dice given him by Raja Sarkap, besides which, Sarkap let loose his famous rat, Dhol Raja, and it ran about the board, upsetting the chaupur pieces on the sly, so that Rasalu lost the first game, and gave up his shining armour.
And Rasâlu stood in his shining array, as merry and careless as happy as they. He fastened the ropes to his mighty bow, and bent till it would no further go; then with a twang he loosed the string, and like an arrow the laden swing with its burden of seventy maidens fair, shot like an arrow into the air.
Her words moved the heart of Raja Rasalu, and, going to the potter, he asked him to sell the kiln as it was; but the potter replied that he could not settle a fair price till the pots were burnt, as he could not tell how many would come out whole.
Now, just as Rasâlu wiped his sword the sleepers awoke from their sleep. 'See here! said the Goldsmith-lad with pride, 'what I killed in my lonely watch. 'Pooh! only a snake! said the Carpenter-lad; 'see the dragon I have killed. But Rasâlu took them both by the hand and led them into the cave; but dead as it was, they shrieked with fear at the Awful Horror they saw.
When the real man comes, his horse's heel-ropes will bind us and his sword cut us up of their own accord! Then Raja Rasalu loosed his heel-ropes, and dropped his sword upon the ground, and, lo! the heel-ropes bound the giants, and the sword cut them in pieces. Still, seven giants who were left tried to brazen it out, saying, 'Aha! We have eaten many Rasalus like you!
And with him they sent a young colt, born the same day, and sword, spear, and shield, against the day when Raja Rasalu should go forth into the world. So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot, while the nurses taught him all things needful for a King's son to know.
Then the kitten went and sat at the window through which the rat Dhol Raja used to come, and the game began. After a while, Sarkap, seeing Raja Rasalu was winning, called to his rat, but when Dhol Raja saw the kitten he was afraid, and would not go further. So Rasalu won, and took back his arms.
So the sixty-nine maidens mixed a hundredweight of millet seed with a hundredweight of sand, and giving it to Rasalu, bade him separate the seed from the sand. Then he bethought him of the cricket, and drawing the feeler from his pocket, thrust it into the fire.
And Rasalu, in his Jogi's habit, bent his head towards her, saying softly 'A day since the earrings were mine, A day since I turned a faqir; But yesterday Love's arrow struck me; I seek nothing here! I beg nought of others I see, But only, fair Sundran, of thee!
So the second game began, and once more Dhol Raja, the rat, upset the pieces; and Rasalu, losing the game, gave up his faithful steed. Then Bhaunr Iraqi, who stood by, found voice, and cried to his master 'I am born of the sea and of gold; Dear Prince! trust me now as of old.
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