Indian folklore / Ram Satya Mukharji.

  • Mukharji, Ram Satya.
Date:
1904
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    all crying for ?” The Begam drew a deep sigh, and' said : “Oh dear ! poor Ganddharva Sen is dead ” The girl anxiously asked ; “Who was Ganddharva Sen to your Majesty?’’ “Oh! indeed,’’ exclaimed the Begam, “ that I don’t know,” and she ran to the Badsha, and asked him who Ganddharva Sen was, that they were lamenting his death. The Bads/ia, failing to give any reply, felt ashamed, and went to his Hall, sent for the Vizir, and on his appearance asked hirn : “Vizir 1 who was Ganddharva Sen that we are all mourning his death”, “Pardon, Bandenawaz T exclaimed the Vizir, “your slave is not aware of who Ganddharva Sen was, but he saw the Kotowal crying, and saying that Ganddharva Sen was dead, and so he cried for company.” “ Thou art an arrant fool”— thundered forth the Monarch, “ go and enquire who Ganddharva Sen was.” The Vizir bowed, and ran as fast as his legs could carry him, but he met the Kotowal near the palace gate and asked him who Ganddharva Sen was. The Kotoival looked vacantly at the Vizir’s face, and said that he did not know who the late Ganddharva Sen was, but as the Jamadar came crying for him and said that poor Ganddharva Sen was dead, he wept and informed the Vizir of it. Then they both went to the Jamadar the Kotowal him who Ganddharva Sen was for whose death he had wept, “ Oh sir!” replied the Jamadar, “ I can’t say who or what he was, but as I saw my wife was weeping over the death of