“Oh Chaura, oh Bhaura,
How far away
Is the Saru Prince, the Gindu Raja?”
and they answered
“Oh sister, oh Rani!
Your father has sacrificed him
In the big tank.”
Thereupon she began to cry, and every day she sat and cried on the bank of the tank.
Now the two daughters of the Snake King and Queen had received the Saru Prince as he disappeared under the water, and when they heard the princess crying every day they had pity on her; she used to sing:—
“Oh husband! Oh Raja!