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Prince
Kaamraal
Zamaan and the Princess of China:
Prince and Princess Search For Each other
When
the Prince woke up next morning, he remembered about the Princess he saw
last night, but now she was not there. He started looking for her. When
he did not see her, he thought that it was a trick played by his father
upon him. He washed his face and read a book for some time. Then he called
his slave and asked him - "How that lady came here, and where has she
gone now?" But the slave showed his complete innocence in this
matter. The Prince thought he was lying. He tied him with a rope and
plunged him in water several times saying - "I will drown you if you
will not tell me who that lady was and who brought her here."
The
slave was intelligent, he said - "OK, I will tell you all, but it is
difficult for me to reply your questions in this condition, just let me
change my clothes." The Prince untied him and said - "Go quickly
and come quickly." The slave ran towards the door, locked it and ran
away to the palace. The Sultaan was talking to his Vazeer about his son's
disobedience, and the Vazeer kept saying him just to keep some more patience,
that the slave came there and reported the incident at the tower. The King
got more sad hearing this incident and he sent his Vazeer to find out more
about it.
The Vazeer
came to the Prince, the Prince was very calm and quite and was reading a
book sitting on his bed. The Vazeer said to him - "Prince, You punished
your slave to alarm your father?" The Prince said - "Alarm? The
matter is worse." Vazeer said - "I hope that what he told us about
you, was true, but it seems false." The Prince said -
"Maybe he could not explain himself to you, but since you have come
here, I wish to ask you, who was that lady who was sent here last
night?"
The Vazeer
got startled hearing this, he said - "Prince, Do you think is it possible
that a lady or anybody else could come here in the night without entering
at the door and walking over the body of the slave? I am sure you must
have seen a dream last night." The Prince said angrily - "I
don't want to hear anything, just tell me what happened to that
lady?" The Vazeer himself was in confusion, but gathering himself he
asked him - "Did you see the lady?" "Yes, sure, She
pretended to be in sleep, she did not speak to me, but soon I also fell
asleep, and she left me. You know all this, don't you? And she might have reported
all this to you." The Vazeer said politely - "Sir, There was nothing
like this." The Prince took him by his beard and hit him with
blows.
Vazeer
thought, "I am also in bad condition as the slave so I should better
leave this place soon." He said to the Prince - "Tell me what
happened yesterday night and if you will set me free, I will tell all that to the
King." The Prince said - "Go and tell him, if he pleases, I can
marry that girl he sent to me last night. Go and do this quickly." Vazeer considered himself lucky, he immediately rose, locked the door and
came to the King. He said to the King - "What this slave was saying
is true." Hearing this the King, who loved his son very much, decided
to find out the truth about this matter. He himself went to the tower
along with his Vazeer.
The
King asked his son several questions, and the son answered them sensibly,
which showed that he was in perfect senses. Then he asked about the lady
he saw last night. The Prince said - "I do not want to talk about her
any more, I just want to marry her." The King said - "I swear by
my crown, which is going to be yours after me, that I do not know any such
lady. And the question is how did she enter this place?" Then the
Prince related to his father every single thing he experienced last night,
he showed him her ring also on his own finger saying that he had exchanged
it with his own and convinced the King that it was not his dream. The King
also got assured that his son was not dreaming last night.
He
said to the Prince - "Now the question is who she was, where to find
her, how to approach her father, how could she enter this place, etc.
Come, let us be miserable together." He took him out of the tower, to
his palace, where the Prince fell ill and the King also could not go out because
of his illness. His Vazeer then proposed him to move to his castle and the
King and his son moved to the castle which was on an island near the port.
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While
all this was happening at the Prince side, Danhaash and Kaashkaash took
the Princess to her home. As she awoke next morning, she also did not see
the Prince beside her, so she asked her maid about him. She could not
understand anything and asked her to explain it more clearly. Then the
Princess asked her "Where is the Prince who was here last night, I
tried my best to wake him up but could not succeed." The maid said -
"Madam, How could anybody enter this room without my knowledge. The
door was locked and the key is with me." But since the Princess has
already seen him, she shook her by her hair and gave her a couple of
blows.
The
maid complained to the queen about this and the queen came to see her daughter. When she
asked her about the boy, she told her the same story what she told her
maid and told her that if
she would marry, she would marry only that boy, otherwise will commit
suicide. She showed her his ring also on her finger. The mother got
convinced that she surly saw some boy in her chamber. She told all this to
her husband, and the King announced in his council, that whoever will cure
her, he will marry her to him. If he did not succeed, he will cut his head, so
one should take up this matter after proper consideration. Now there was
one rich man in his council who knew some magic, he assured the King that
he would cure his daughter. The King showed him where his daughter was.
As the
daughter saw a stranger coming in her room she cried - "Why should I
be attended by some stranger?" The King said - "Don't be
offended, this man is one of my council members who wants to marry
you." The Princess said - "But I am not going to marry any other
than that boy." The councilman found the girl sensible while he was
expecting her to be irrational. He fell on the feet of the King and said -
"Sir, What I have head and observed, there is no point to cure the
Princess, because she is perfectly all right and there is no remedy for
healthy people." But the King thought that he was incapable of curing
his daughter, so he ordered him to be beheaded.
After
some time he announced it in his kingdom if there were any physician,
astrologer or magician who could cure his daughter. But if he miscarried
his plan, he
would be killed. An astrologer and a magician came to the King to cure his
daughter and he was taken to his daughter. He took out a small sphere, a
dish, several kinds of drugs for fumigations, a brass pot from his bag and
lighted a fire. He told that it was all to arrest evil spirits, which were
possessing the Princess, in the pot and throw them into the sea.
The
Princess said - "I am not in control of any evil spirit or anything, I am in
perfect senses. If you can bring the boy whom I love, I am grateful for
you, otherwise you may go." The astrologer said - "If this is
your case then only your father can help you." He put up all his
things back in his bag and went away. He reported the King - "As you
have announced, it seemed to be that the Princess was possessed with evil
spirits but she is perfectly all right and you yourself is the remedy of
her illness by giving her to the person she desires to marry." The
King did not believe this astrologer also, and he had his head cut off.
Thus 150 different types of people were beheaded and all heads were placed
on different gates of the city.
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