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King Mansing of Sirohi was a very brave Rajput; but he had one fault.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") He was greatly addicted to opium, of which he used to drink daily vast quantities from the hand of his favourite queen.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Now it so happened that the Emperor of Delhi came to Rajputana and camped outside the walls of Sirohi.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") All night long the emperor and his nobles drank deep and revelled, while beautiful dancing girls sang to them lascivious songs.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The noise of the music and the dancing could be heard from King Mansing’s palace; and all one night, as the king slept, his favourite queen sat up and listened to it.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") When Mansing awoke, his queen gave him his opium.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") As he drank it, she talked about the wonderful revels of the emperor and the noise of his music and the lights that blazed all night in his camp.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") At first Mansing paid no heed to his queen’s chatter; but at last he got cross and told her not to mention in his presence the name of the Mleccha emperor.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") The queen was so infatuated with what she had seen and heard that she would not stop, but began to compare the gaiety of the emperor’s camp with the dullness of life in Sirohi.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") At last the king lost all patience and boxing his wife’s ears told her that if she thought so much of the emperor’s camp, she had better go there.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The queen left the room in a rage and all that day brooded over the king’s words.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") That night she took her maid with her and stole out of the palace and through the city walls into the emperor’s camp.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") When she reached his tent, she sent her maid to tell the emperor.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") He was listening to the singing of his dancing girls and the music of his players; but as soon as he learnt that the queen was outside, he stopped the music and the singing and had the queen brought before him with the greatest respect.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") As she entered the tent the whole company rose and greeted her.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The emperor asked her why she had come.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") She replied “Grant me a boon, shelter of the world, and I shall tell you.”[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") The emperor replied “The boon is yours; you have but to name it.”[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") The queen told the emperor all that had happened and claimed as a boon that the emperor should marry her.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") After she had spoken, she took the emperor’s cup in her hands and drank from it, thus breaking her caste in the sight of all.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") The emperor had no wish to quarrel with King Mansing of Sirohi, but having made the queen a promise, he had to keep it.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") He called the kazi and married the queen.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") The same night he left Sirohi and marched back to Delhi.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The king had seen the queen leave his room in a rage, but he thought no more of the matter until next morning, when she did not come with his opium.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") He sent for her; but as she did not come he called her maids and forced from their trembling lips the truth.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") The king said nothing, but swallowing a prodigious quantity of opium, he put on his armour and summoned his chiefs and nobles.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") When they had assembled, he told them that the emperor had seduced his queen and then like a coward had run away to Delhi.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") The chiefs and nobles all vowed vengeance and bade the king call out his troops.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") At noon the king held a great parade; but when he came to count his warriors, he found that they barely numbered 6,000.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") On hearing this, the king’s minister Motishah told him that he could do nothing with only 6,000 men against the 120,000 men led by the emperor.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") “What then can I do?” cried the king.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") “Let us go to Delhi in disguise,” said Motishah.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") “There we shall be able to hit on some plan to win back the queen.”[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") The king agreed; and disguising themselves as two Rajput soldiers, he and Motishah rode from Sirohi to Delhi.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") At Delhi they put up with a mali woman, who worked in the imperial gardens.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") From her they learnt that the emperor fearing a rescue, had dug round the queen’s palace no less than seven trenches.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Of these six were filled with water and the inner one with fire.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") Outside the trenches he had built a mighty wall.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") That night the king and Motishah disguised as mendicants, but with swords and shields hidden beneath their yellow robes sallied forth to the queen’s palace.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") On coming to the wall, Motishah climbed on to the king’s shoulders and thence on to the wall.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") He let down his turban and by its means hauled the king after him.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") As both could swim, they easily crossed the six water trenches.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") They had hoped to find the fire-trench burning low at night.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") But the king’s guards before going home had filled it with fresh wood and it was burning fiercely.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") Motishah threw his shield into the middle and jumped on to it.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") But so great was the heat that he soon felt that his legs would be burnt off.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") So keeping his right leg on the shield, he kept his left leg as high as he could, to save it from the flames.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") He supported himself on his spear while the king sprang on his shoulders and leapt to the far side of the trench.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Near the palace was a tall palm tree.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Mansing climbed it and reaching the top, tied his turban to one of the branches.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") He then swung on his turban to and fro until he was able to swing into one of the windows of the upper storey of the palace.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") He tied his turban to the window sill and went inside.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") In a room close by he saw his queen sleeping with the emperor.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") At first he felt so angry that he would have killed them both, as they slept.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he remembered that he was a Rajput and that it was wrong to kill a helpless enemy.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") So he woke the queen and with the point of his sword at her throat, he made her get up without waking the emperor.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") Tying a rope round her arms and legs and throwing her like a bundle across his back, he swung back to the palm tree by his turban and slid to the ground.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") Poor Motishah’s right leg was by this time all but burnt off; but when he saw the king coming back he put his left leg on the shield and over his shoulders the king climbed across the fire trench.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") But he could not save his minister.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") No sooner had Mansing reached safety than poor Motishah fainted and falling into the trench was burnt to ashes.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") Mansing swam with his queen on his back across the six water trenches.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") By the aid of Motishah’s turban, which still hung from the wall, he climbed over it and pulled his wife after him.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") He seated her on his horse and mounting Motishah’s mare, galloped off towards Sirohi.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") When they had ridden some fifty miles, Mansing stopped to have his morning dose of opium.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") He then discovered for the first time that he had dropped his opium box inside the emperor’s palace.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") Addicted as he was to the drug, he could do without food, but he could not do without his opium.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") It would have been useless for him to ride further, for he would have fallen off the saddle.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") After stamping on the ground several times with rage, he tied his queen to a tree.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he lay down on the ground and covering his head with a sheet fell asleep.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") In the meantime the emperor had awakened and had missed the Sirohi queen.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") He asked his guards and his servants and searched everywhere for her but in vain.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") Then his eyes fell on Mansing’s gold opium box.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") He picked it up and saw engraved on it the name “Mansing.”[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") He summoned to him his nobles and called for a volunteer to chase Mansing and bring him back alive.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") A Musulman noble famed for his courage rose, saluted the emperor and promised to bring the king back alive.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") He galloped towards Sirohi and after riding 50 miles overtook the king and queen.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") Mansing still lay asleep.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") The Musulman noble untied the queen but he refused to kill Mansing, although she begged him to.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") He must bring him back alive, the Musulman said.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") He would give the king opium and then take him back to Delhi.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") “If you give him opium,” said the queen, “you will never take him alive, he will kill you.”[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") The Musulman did not heed her, but mixing opium with water he poured it down Mansing’s throat.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") Directly Mansing recovered his senses, he refused to go back to Delhi.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") He sprang on his horse and fought the Musulman.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") But Mansing was still faint from his long privation and the Musulman disarmed him and tied him to a tree.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") Leaving the queen to guard her husband the Musulman went down the steps of a well to wash his face and hands.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") The queen seeing her chance, picked up Mansing’s sword as it lay on the ground and struck a blow at his head.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") Mansing jerked his head aside.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") The blade missed his head and grazing his side cut through the rope which bound him.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") In a moment he was free.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") Rushing at the queen, he twisted the sword from her hand and tied her to the tree.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") He mixed himself some more opium.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") Then arming himself with sword and shield, he went to the mouth of the well and challenged the Musulman to a second fight.[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") The Musulman came out of the well, but now that Mansing had had his full dose of opium, no one in the world could have beaten him.[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") With a single sweep of his sword he severed the Musulman’s head from his body.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") Then tying his wife’s hands and feet to her horse, he rode back with her in triumph to Sirohi.[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") There all the nobles and common people rejoiced at the king’s feat of arms and were very angry with the queen, who had first left him and then had tried to kill him.[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") Mansing had her tied to a pillar in the market place.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") There everyone threw bricks and stones at her or hit her head with their shoes.[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") She soon died and her body was burnt outside the city walls.[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") The emperor was very angry when he heard that Mansing had killed the brave Musulman noble.[101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") He raised a great army and marched against Sirohi.[102](102/ "tree and pragmatics") Yet small though the Sirohi army was, it won repeated victories over the Moghul troops.[103](103/ "tree and pragmatics") At last the emperor challenged the king to a duel, but the emperor was no match for the Rajput king.[104](104/ "tree and pragmatics") He was soon wounded and disarmed.[105](105/ "tree and pragmatics") As the price of his life, he agreed to make a treaty by which he gave great wealth and wide lands to the king of Sirohi.[106](106/ 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