--- title: Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · full text with trees description: Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Once upon a time there was a great king of Guzarat, who died leaving two sons Phulsinh and Rupsinh. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/) [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/) / Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes. # Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes. Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes. of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid: the whole text, 257 sentences and 4162 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/page/2/) Once upon a time there was a great king of Guzarat, who died leaving two sons Phulsinh and Rupsinh.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") On the father’s death Phulsinh mounted the throne.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") In no long time he died leaving a widow and no children and Rupsinh became king of Guzarat, although still a little boy.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Phulsinh’s widow would have burnt herself on her husband’s pyre had not the townspeople bidden her live and care for their child king.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The widowed queen was very wise and clever.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") So deft was she with her fingers that she could dress her hair with oil and afterwards press the hair so skilfully that not a drop of oil remained in it.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") On a day when Rupsinh was a lad of fifteen, he lay asleep with his head resting on the lap of the queen.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") As he slept, she dressed his hair with oil and then began to squeeze it out.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") By chance she pulled out one of Rupsinh’s hairs.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Rupsinh awoke and said crossly: “You are not so clever to-day as usual with your fingers, or you would not have pulled out my hair.”[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The queen said with a laugh: “Yes, I am getting old and make mistakes.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") If you want someone who will never make mistakes, you had better marry the queen of the Anardes.”[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The queen was only joking, for the Anardes were a race of fairies.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") But Rupsinh took her words in earnest and cried “Marry the queen of the Anardes, then, I will\![14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") And till I have done so, I shall neither eat nor drink inside my kingdom.”[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The poor queen regretted bitterly her words and begged the young king to pay no heed to them.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") But the headstrong boy would not mind her.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") He told his grooms, to saddle his horses.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") “Shew me,” he said to the queen, “the house of the queen of the Anardes.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") If not, I shall seek her without your aid.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") I shall ask my way and with God’s help I shall find it.”[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") The widowed queen was greatly grieved at the way the boy king had taken her words; still, she thought it best now to help him on his way, rather than to thwart him.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") She said: “If you will go, my King, then heed my words carefully, for the road is long and full of perils.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Trust none whom you meet or you will perish miserably.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") On leaving the palace gates ride to the north.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") In three days’ time you will come to a dense forest.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Ride boldly into it and in its very heart you will find a lake.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") But beware of the lake and do not bathe in it or drink its waters.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") If you do, you will die; for the lake is a fairies’ lake and no mortal who bathes in it or drinks its waters can live.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Ride therefore past the lake until you come to a great mountain.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Avoid the mountain; for near it lives a monstrous elephant; and should it see you, it will trample you to death.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Beyond the mountain you will come to Thugtown, a town full of thugs and cheats.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") They will kill you if they can.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") If you can outwit the men of Thugtown, you will come next to a beautiful wood.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Here above all be on your guard, for the wood is peopled by demons who live on human flesh.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Beyond the demon’s wood lie the lands of the Princess Phulpancha.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") She is so called because her weight is only that of five flowers.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") In her country you will surely die; but if someone will drop on your body three drops of Amrita, or ambrosia from the bottle that I give you, you will come back to life.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Such are the perils that await you, yet if you still wish to go, take with you my blessing.”[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") As the widowed queen spoke, her voice trembled and the tears rolled down her cheeks, for she loved Rupsinh as if he had been her own son.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") She put in the youth’s hands a bottle of Amrita.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") He took it, bowed his head to her feet, mounted his horse and spurring it along the northern road was soon out of sight.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Three days later Rupsinh saw, as he rode, the forest of which the widowed queen had spoken.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") He rode into it and rejoiced in the shade of the great trees overhead.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") Suddenly he saw in front of him, like a sheet of silver, a beautiful lake.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Forgetting what the widowed queen had said, he let his horse walk to the edge and quench its thirst.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") A moment later he heard a noise of wings above him.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") He looked up and saw a great company of fairies on horseback flying towards the lake.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") The young king in a fright turned his horse’s head towards the road and tried to spur it into a gallop.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") But the poison of the fairy lake was killing the poor horse and after trying feebly to answer to the spur, it fell down dead.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") The king undid the girths and taking with him the saddle ran to a big tree close by and climbed into its branches.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") The fairies had not seen him, so they dismounted; tied their horses to trees and plunged gaily into the fairy lake.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Rupsinh slipped down from his tree and slipped noiselessly to where the queen of the fairies had tethered her horse and put his saddle on its back.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") He jumped on it and galloped off.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") The fairies did not notice their loss until they came out of the water.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") The queen was in great distress; and she and other fairies followed Rupsinh’s tracks until they came near the elephant mountain.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") Far off they saw Rupsinh galloping away on the fairy queen’s horse.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") They called to the elephant to stop him, as he was a horse thief.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") The elephant ran after the king and caught him and his horse in its mighty trunk.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") Carrying them to the mountain, it tried to crush them to death against one of its steep sides.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") The young king was in despair.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") Then regaining courage, he slashed so fiercely at the elephant’s trunk with his sword that it let him and the horse go.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") Rupsinh galloped away until he reached Thugtown.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") At its gate he saw an old man sitting.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") As the king rode up, the old man rose and with great courtesy said “Welcome, Thakor.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") Your father married you when a child to my daughter; and yet you have never come to see her until now.”[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") “This is Thugtown,” thought the king, “and the old man must be one of the thugs who live there.”[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") Still Rupsinh could not but return the old man’s greeting.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") He said “My father died so long ago that I cannot remember him at all, nor anything he did.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") It was only the other day that I heard from a kinsman that my father had married me to your daughter.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") I at once set out to claim my bride.”[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man bade the king enter the town and stay at his house, that he might meet his daughter.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") They entered the town gates together.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") At the old man’s door his four young sons came out and greeted the king as their brother-in-law.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") At night they would have led him to a room at the top of the house.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") But the king guessed that in the night they meant to throw him from the window.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") He said he could not sleep anywhere but on the ground floor.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") He was so obstinate that the old man at last put a bed for him in the verandah on the ground floor, while he and his sons slept in rooms off it.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") The king kept awake all night.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") It was well he did so.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") The queen of the fairies, who had never ceased to follow her horse’s tracks, came to the old man’s house and saw Rupsinh lying in the verandah.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") She tied a magic thread round his ankle and ran to the stable to mount the horse which the king had stolen.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") But Rupsinh untied the thread and tied it round the ankle of the old man.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") He had no sooner done so, than the magic thread became quite taut.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") The fairy queen had mounted her horse and riding off dragged the old man after her.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") She never thought of looking back, but galloped straight off to the elephant mountain.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") There she threw him before the elephant, who at once trampled the old man to death.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") In the meantime Rupsinh drew his sword.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") Going to the beds of the four sons, he sternly demanded his horse.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") One of the four sons went to the stable to saddle it.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") As it was not there, Rupsinh made him give him one of the old man’s own horses instead.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") He then rode as fast as he could out of Thugtown.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") Rupsinh rode north for some hours when he saw in front of him a beautiful wood.[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") He at once recalled the widowed queen’s warning about the demons who lived in it.[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") He entered it.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") Suddenly he saw two demons fighting together.[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") When they saw the king they stopped fighting and began to laugh.[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") Rupsinh laughed back and then asked them what amused them.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") “We have not tasted human flesh,” said one of the demons, “for twelve years.[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") When we saw you we laughed for joy.[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") But why did you laugh?”[101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") “I am a messenger of the god Shiva” said Rupsinh.[102](102/ "tree and pragmatics") “The parchment on one of his drums is torn and he sent me out to get two demon skins with which to repair it.[103](103/ "tree and pragmatics") The drum is so big that the skin of one demon would not be enough.[104](104/ "tree and pragmatics") So when I saw two demons in front of me, I laughed for joy.”[105](105/ "tree and pragmatics") Rupsinh drew his sword and rode at the demons as if to skin them alive.[106](106/ "tree and pragmatics") In an agony of fear they begged him to take the skin of their blind uncle instead.[107](107/ "tree and pragmatics") “One demon’s skin will not do,” said the king sternly; “besides the skin of a blind demon would sound hollow.”[108](108/ "tree and pragmatics") The demons in despair offered Rupsinh a large ransom, but he would not accept it.[109](109/ "tree and pragmatics") At last they offered him a flying machine known as a pavanpavdi.[110](110/ "tree and pragmatics") “In it,” they said, “you can fly all over the sky and whenever you see a demon on earth, you can come down and skin him.”[111](111/ "tree and pragmatics") The king took the pavanpavdi and tied it on to his horse’s back and rode on until he crossed the borders of the Princess Phulpancha’s country.[112](112/ "tree and pragmatics") Some time later he reached her town and lodged with an old woman who owned a garden outside the city.[113](113/ "tree and pragmatics") The king had not been there many days before the princess came to hear of him.[114](114/ "tree and pragmatics") One day as he rode under her window her maid-servants whispered to her, “That is the young king, my Princess.”[115](115/ "tree and pragmatics") Phulpancha on the spot fell in love with him.[116](116/ "tree and pragmatics") One day Rupsinh came to his lodging, hungry and thirsty, and asked the old woman to cook him some food at once.[117](117/ "tree and pragmatics") The old woman said that she could not, as she was weaving garlands for the Princess Phulpancha.[118](118/ "tree and pragmatics") The king bade the old woman cook his dinner while he wove the garlands, which he did very skilfully.[119](119/ "tree and pragmatics") He then took off his diamond ring and hid it in one of them.[120](120/ "tree and pragmatics") When his dinner was ready, he ate it and the old woman went to the palace with the garlands.[121](121/ "tree and pragmatics") As the Princess put them round her neck, her fingers touched the diamond ring.[122](122/ "tree and pragmatics") She knew that it must have been sent to her by Rupsinh, as he lodged with the old woman.[123](123/ "tree and pragmatics") Some days later Rupsinh left his lodging and dressed as a poor Rajput, went to the court of Phulpancha’s father and asked for service.[124](124/ "tree and pragmatics") The old king was pleased with Rupsinh’s speech and bearing and made him chief of the guards round the Princess’ palace and paid him three gold pieces a day.[125](125/ "tree and pragmatics") In this manner Rupsinh came to see the Princess almost daily and told her all about himself.[126](126/ "tree and pragmatics") Some days later came the weighing of the Princess Phulpancha.[127](127/ "tree and pragmatics") It was the custom of the land that once a year the Princess should be weighed on a pair of magic scales.[128](128/ "tree and pragmatics") If no man but the king had seen her during the previous year, her weight would only be that of five flowers.[129](129/ "tree and pragmatics") But if a man had seen her, her weight would be that of an ordinary girl of her age and height.[130](130/ "tree and pragmatics") At the appointed hour Phulpancha sat on one of the scales, while the weigher put five flowers on the other.[131](131/ "tree and pragmatics") Instead of the five flowers balancing the Princess, her scale clung obstinately to the ground; and it was not until two maunds had been put in the other, that the Princess began to move upwards.[132](132/ "tree and pragmatics") The old king made enquiries and came to know that Rupsinh had several times spoken to Phulpancha.[133](133/ "tree and pragmatics") Instantly he had Rupsinh hanged, from the branch of a tree.[134](134/ "tree and pragmatics") Fortunately before entering the king’s service, Rupsinh had told the old woman of the garden about the Amrita.[135](135/ "tree and pragmatics") Hearing of the poor young king’s execution, she went at night and sprinkled three drops of Amrita over his body.[136](136/ "tree and pragmatics") Rupsinh came to life again.[137](137/ "tree and pragmatics") But the old woman fearing the old king’s anger would not take him back.[138](138/ "tree and pragmatics") Rupsinh was at first at his wit’s end.[139](139/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he remembered the demons’ pavanpavdi and seating himself in it he rose in the air and flew northwards.[140](140/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/page/2/) - ← previous: [Magadha and Rupvati.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/18/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/)