--- title: Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · full text with trees description: Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: One of the highest peaks of the Baluch mountains along the frontier of the Larkana district is known as the Kutteji kabar. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/) / Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah. # Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah. Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah. of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid: the whole text, 56 sentences and 1064 words. 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One of the highest peaks of the Baluch mountains along the frontier of the Larkana district is known as the Kutteji kabar.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") This is the tale they tell about it.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Once upon a time a rich Brohi hillman owned a very faithful and obedient dog.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The Brohi was at one time rich, but from one cause or another he lost his wealth and of all his riches nothing was left to him but his dog.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") One day when he had no money left, he mortgaged his dog for a hundred rupees to a bania of the neighbourhood.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Before leaving it, he bade his hound serve its new master as faithfully as it had served him.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") The dog wagged its tail as if it fully understood what the hillman told him.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Several months passed by and the dog was as obedient to the bania as it had been to the Brohi.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") One night a band of fierce robbers broke into the house of the bania, over-powered the inmates and carried off the savings of the merchant’s life-time.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") After the robbers had left, the bania began to mourn and beat his breast.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") In an hour or so the dog came to him and tugged at his coat.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") The bania abused and beat it for not having guarded him against the robbers.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") But the dog continued so to pull at his coat, that the neighbours advised him to go with the dog and see what it wanted.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The dog led by the way for a mile or so until it came to a torrent bed, when it began to dig in the ground with its paws.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The bania and his neighbours also began to dig; at last they came upon the bania’s safe with his money secure inside it.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The dog seeing that it could not fight with success against a band of armed robbers, waited until they had left and then followed them until it saw them conceal their plunder.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Then it went back to tell the bania.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") The latter was so touched at the dog’s fidelity and sense that he tied round its neck a letter to the Brohi.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") In it he told his debtor that he cancelled his debt and asked him to take his dog back free of incumbrances.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he told the dog to go back to its master.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") Off it went wagging its tail and barking delightedly at the thought of seeing its old master.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Now it so chanced that the Brohi hillman had by working in the plains saved a sum sufficient to pay off his debt and he was returning to the hills to do so.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") On the way he met his hound.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") It rushed towards him in a transport of joy.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") But the hillman who knew nothing of the dog’s conduct and did not notice the letter round its neck, thought that it had disgraced him by running away from his creditor before he had paid his debt.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") A man of high honour, he grew very angry and holding out the fingers of his right hand made the bhundo sign in the dog’s face.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") This deadly and contemptuous insult was too much for the poor dog.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") It fell at its master’s feet and died on the spot.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") The Brohi tried in vain to bring it back to life.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") As he tried, he saw the bania’s letter round its neck and learnt too late how innocent the dead dog had been.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") In his grief, he bore the dog’s body to the highest peak of the neighbouring mountains and buried it there.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") For some time he remained by the tomb as its majawar or guardian.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he sickened and died also.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") But the peak is still known as Kutteji kabar.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Another love story of a different kind is told of the minaret of Mausum Shah, that looks down from a great height on the thriving town of Sukkur and the splendid river Indus, as it runs through its two limestone banks.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") A certain Musulman called Mausumshah fell in love with one of the bania girls of Sukkur, whose beauty is renowned through all Sind.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") But he was a Musulman and the lady was a Hindu.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") The lady would not join Islam and he could not, if he would, become a Hindu.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Yet unless one or the other became a convert, marriage between them was impossible.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") The lady moreover had little liking for her Musulman wooer, although perhaps a little flattered by his pressing attentions.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") To be rid of his ardent importunities, she bade him build a minaret, two hundred feet high before he aspired to her hand.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") But she had not realised the passion of the unhappy Mausum Shah.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") He set to work, collected stones and coolies and before the Hindu lady was very much older, she saw to her horror a splendid minaret rising above the ground.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") In a few more months it was finished and Mausum Shah full of pride and love went to claim the hand of his beloved.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") But as Francis the First, an experienced judge of the fair sex, used to say “Souvent femme varie, fol qui s’y fie,” and the lady proved as untractable as ever.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") In spite of her former implied promise she still refused to wed a circumcised barbarian.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") “I did not say that I would marry you,” she said “when you had finished the minaret.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") I only wanted you to build it that you might throw yourself from the top!”[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Cruelty could go no further; and the broken-hearted lover ascending the minaret, took a last view of the splendid panorama unrolled before his eyes and plunged head first from the pinnacle.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Legend, however, relates that he never struck the ground, nor was he dashed to pieces.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") A divine hand caught him as he fell and put him safely on his feet.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") His love for the beautiful Hindu girl had died within him.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") He had seen the selfish heart that beat within her beautiful body.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Giving up the things of this world, he became an anchorite and taught the precepts of Islam until death overtook him.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") He was buried at the foot of the tower from which he had once thrown himself.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") And to this day his tomb and those of his disciples may be seen there by the visitor to Sukkur.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The Makli Hill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/13/) - next →: [Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/15/) - ↑ back to [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/)