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Then deceitful Queen Lona, who all these years had been longing vainly for a son, when she saw what mighty power the unknown faqir possessed, fell on the ground also, and begged for an heir to gladden the heart of Raja Salbahan. Then Puran Bhagat spoke, and his voice was stern, 'Raja Salbahan already has a son. Where is he? What have you done with him?
Now, as soon as Raja Salbahan heard this, he guessed at once that it was Prince Rasalu come forth before the time, and, mindful of the Jogis' words that he would die if he looked on his son's face before twelve years were past, he did not dare to send his guards to seize the offender and bring him to be judged.
So, being a bad, deceitful woman, envy and rage took possession of her heart, and she so poisoned Raja Salbahan's mind against his son, young Puran, that just as the Prince was growing to manhood, his father became madly jealous of him, and in a fit of anger ordered his hands and feet to be cut off. Not content even with this cruelty, Raja Salbahan had the poor young man thrown into a deep well.
Dear! dear! Yet it is very odd, and I don't think she can be quite dead, you know for dead folks always wag their tails! On this, Miss Crocodile began to wag her tail very gently, and Mr. Jackal ran off, roaring with laughter, and saying, 'Oho! oho! so dead folk always wag their tails! Once there lived a great Raja, whose name was Salbahan, and he had two Queens.
Yet still the King did not send for him, and so he mounted his steed and set off in the pride of his youth and strength to the palace. He strode into the audience hall, where his father sat trembling, and saluted him with all reverence; but Raja Salbahan, in fear of his life, turned his back hastily and said never a word in reply. Then Prince Rasalu called scornfully to him across the hall
And when they heard that he was, they prepared to fly east and west; but even as they turned, Raja Rasalu rode up on Bhaunr Iraqi, and challenged them to fight, saying, 'Come forth, for I am Rasalu, son of Raja Salbahan, and born enemy of the giants! Then one of the giants tried to brazen it out, saying, 'I have eaten many Rasalus like you!
'I am fair Lona's son; my father's name Great Salbahan, who reigns at Sialkot. I am Rasalu; for thy beauty's fame These ashes, and the Jogi's begging note, To see if thou wert fair as all men say; Lo! I have seen it, and I go my way!
Even the Raja Salbahan and his two Queens heard of it in the palace, and they too went to the garden to see it with their own eyes. But Puran Bhagat's mother, Queen Achhra, had wept so long for her darling, that the tears had blinded her eyes, and so she went, not to see, but to ask the wonder-working faqir to restore her sight.
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