--- title: Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · full text with trees · page 2 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/page/2/) [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. · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/) **2** After some time the young king came to a big garden in the midst of which was a palace seven stories high.[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") He entered the palace and ran upstairs until he reached the seventh storey.[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") On the top stair was seated an aged anchorite who said to him, “Welcome Rupsinh.”[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") The king was astonished that the anchorite should know his name and he asked the anchorite how he knew it.[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") “My inner knowledge, my son, tells me your name.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") I also know that your brother’s widow anxiously awaits your return.[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") I know, too, that you are fated to win the queen of the Anardes.”[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") The king begged the anchorite to bless him.[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") The anchorite did so and added, “To-morrow I shall go to bathe in a pool in the palace gardens.[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") When I do so, watch carefully the pomegranate trees in the orchard.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") You will see the pomegranates on them suddenly open and from each one will come out an Anarde.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") They will play and dance together in the garden and she to whom the others will pay deference is their queen.[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") After a time they will go back to their hiding places.[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") Note carefully the fruit which the queen enters.[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") Then go down into the garden, pick it and take it back with you.[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") But do not look behind you, as many others before you have done, or you will be turned into stone.”[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") Next morning the ascetic went to bathe and Rupsinh did as the ascetic had told him.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") He watched the pomegranate trees and soon from each fruit there dropped to the earth a tiny fairy.[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") One of them, slightly bigger than the others, was clearly their queen.[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") They played and danced for a time.[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they ran back to their hiding places.[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") The pomegranates closed and hid their fairy lodgers from view.[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") The king, however, had seen which pomegranate held the queen.[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") He went into the garden, plucked the fruit and turned back to the palace.[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") Voices all round him cried out, “Strike him\![165](../../165/ "tree and pragmatics") Kill him!”[166](../../166/ "tree and pragmatics") But remembering the anchorite’s words, he never once looked round until he had reached the palace door.[167](../../167/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he turned and saw the anchorite trying to soothe the other Anardes, for it was their voices which the king had heard.[168](../../168/ "tree and pragmatics") “It was fated that one of you should wed a mortal.[169](../../169/ "tree and pragmatics") What was fated has happened.[170](../../170/ "tree and pragmatics") So cease from troubling the king and his bride and give them your blessing instead.”[171](../../171/ "tree and pragmatics") When he had calmed the fairies, he went to the king and said, “My son, start at once homewards and tarry nowhere on the road.[172](../../172/ "tree and pragmatics") Shew the pomegranate to no one until you reach your city.”[173](../../173/ "tree and pragmatics") The king mounted his horse without delay and started on his homeward journey.[174](../../174/ "tree and pragmatics") In no long time he saw an ascetic, who for 700 years had been doing penances, in order to win the queen of the Anardes.[175](../../175/ "tree and pragmatics") The king saluted the anchorite, who asked him whether he had won his goal.[176](../../176/ "tree and pragmatics") The king foolishly shewed the anchorite the pomegranate and let him take it in his hand.[177](../../177/ "tree and pragmatics") The sage put it under his foot and when Rupsinh asked for it back, sternly bade the prince begone.[178](../../178/ "tree and pragmatics") The king grew angry and threatened to take it back by force.[179](../../179/ "tree and pragmatics") The anchorite turned towards a big tree close by and consumed it with a single fiery breath.[180](../../180/ "tree and pragmatics") He then said to the youth with a mocking laugh: “When I can blast a tree with a single breath, do you think that I fear you for all your valour?[181](../../181/ "tree and pragmatics") For 700 years I have sought to win the queen of the Anardes.[182](../../182/ "tree and pragmatics") I shall not give her up.”[183](../../183/ "tree and pragmatics") But seeing how downcast Rupsinh looked, he gave him a wand and said “This is a magic wand.[184](../../184/ "tree and pragmatics") Take it.[185](../../185/ "tree and pragmatics") It will beat anyone whom you hate or fear and in battle it will always give you victory.”[186](../../186/ "tree and pragmatics") The king took the wand, although he thought it a poor exchange for the queen of the Anardes, and going sadly to his horse got ready to mount it.[187](../../187/ "tree and pragmatics") As he put his foot in the stirrup, the wand spoke to him with a human voice, “O King, you do not know my name.[188](../../188/ "tree and pragmatics") It is Lalia Lath.[189](../../189/ "tree and pragmatics") For 700 years I have faithfully served the anchorite and now he has given me away in exchange for a woman.[190](../../190/ "tree and pragmatics") If you bid me I will give my old master a sound beating.”[191](../../191/ "tree and pragmatics") Rupsinh, who felt very cross with the anchorite for stealing the queen of the Anardes, was delighted and said “Yes, give him a beating, the sounder the better.”[192](../../192/ "tree and pragmatics") The wand then flew from the king’s hand and began mercilessly to belabour the old sage, until in his pain and fear he threw away the pomegranate and begged for mercy.[193](../../193/ "tree and pragmatics") The king picked up the fruit and with it the wand and he resumed his journey.[194](../../194/ "tree and pragmatics") Several days later he reached his capital.[195](../../195/ "tree and pragmatics") There he took out of the pomegranate the queen of the Anardes, who had by this time become reconciled to marrying Rupsinh.[196](../../196/ "tree and pragmatics") After greeting his sister-in-law, the widowed queen, he began to make everything ready for his marriage to the fairy queen; and in due time their wedding was celebrated with the greatest pomp and splendour.[197](../../197/ "tree and pragmatics") Unhappily in the crowd that watched the wedding was a pretty sweeper girl, called Rukhi and deeply skilled in black magic.[198](../../198/ "tree and pragmatics") She fell in love with the young king’s handsome face and was filled with jealous rage at the happy look on the face of the queen of the Anardes.[199](../../199/ "tree and pragmatics") She devised a cruel plot, to kill her.[200](../../200/ "tree and pragmatics") She sought and obtained service in the palace, where the fairy queen shewed her the greatest kindness.[201](../../201/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the king, weary with the chase, fell asleep.[202](../../202/ "tree and pragmatics") The fairy queen had to go to a neighbouring well, to fetch water for her bath.[203](../../203/ "tree and pragmatics") She did not like to leave the king alone, so she asked Rukhi to watch by him until she came back.[204](../../204/ "tree and pragmatics") Rukhi promised to do so, but a minute or so later she followed her mistress to the well and pushed her in.[205](../../205/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she returned to the palace and by her magic made the king believe that she was the queen of the Anardes.[206](../../206/ "tree and pragmatics") But she could not so deceive the widowed queen.[207](../../207/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the latter in open durbar challenged Rukhi to go back inside the pomegranate.[208](../../208/ "tree and pragmatics") But Rukhi was too clever to be caught.[209](../../209/ "tree and pragmatics") She answered with ready wit: “I can no longer do that, sister, now that I am wedded to a mortal.”[210](../../210/ "tree and pragmatics") She then complained to the king that the widowed queen always tried to vex her.[211](../../211/ "tree and pragmatics") So Rupsinh quarrelled with his sister-in-law and drove her out of the palace.[212](../../212/ "tree and pragmatics") Now out of the well into which the fairy queen had fallen, there grew a most beautiful lotus.[213](../../213/ "tree and pragmatics") The gardener picked it and gave it to the king, who in turn gave it to Rukhi.[214](../../214/ "tree and pragmatics") The latter by her magic knew that the lotus had sprung from the body of the Anarde queen.[215](../../215/ "tree and pragmatics") She pulled off all its petals and threw it out of the window.[216](../../216/ "tree and pragmatics") The flower fell into a bed of soft earth and in a month or two there had sprung up a splendid mango tree that bore delicious fruit.[217](../../217/ "tree and pragmatics") Rukhi had the tree cut down but before it was felled, a bania had picked one of the mangoes and given it to his wife to eat.[218](../../218/ "tree and pragmatics") A year later she bore him a beautiful little baby girl.[219](../../219/ "tree and pragmatics") As the little girl grew up, she became the living image of the queen of the Anardes.[220](../../220/ "tree and pragmatics") Rukhi guessed that she must have sprung from the mango, which had sprung from the lotus that had grown in the well, where the poor queen had been drowned.[221](../../221/ "tree and pragmatics") Rukhi began to complain of a bad pain and told the king that she had been bewitched by the bania girl and would not get well while the girl lived.[222](../../222/ "tree and pragmatics") The king had the bania girl hanged outside the eastern gate of his city.[223](../../223/ "tree and pragmatics") Another marvel then happened.[224](../../224/ "tree and pragmatics") The girl’s head changed into an image of the God Shiva and her body into an image of the Goddess Parvati.[225](../../225/ "tree and pragmatics") Her right eye turned into a cock sparrow and her left eye into a hen sparrow.[226](../../226/ "tree and pragmatics") Her two legs turned into two plantain trees.[227](../../227/ "tree and pragmatics") When Rukhi heard of this, she got terribly afraid that the king would pass that way and see what had occurred.[228](../../228/ "tree and pragmatics") She told him never to pass by the eastern gate or the spirit of the witch girl would possess him.[229](../../229/ "tree and pragmatics") The king did not pass that way for a long time; but one day his horse ran away with him and took him to the eastern gate.[230](../../230/ "tree and pragmatics") He saw there a noble temple to the God Shiva.[231](../../231/ "tree and pragmatics") He went inside to pray.[232](../../232/ "tree and pragmatics") As he prayed, he heard the hen sparrow say to her mate: “The king of this city is a fool” and thereupon she told the cock sparrow the whole tale of the queen of the Anardes.[233](../../233/ "tree and pragmatics") “This very night,” continued the hen sparrow “the queen will come out of one of the plantain trees, into which the bania girl’s legs have changed.[234](../../234/ "tree and pragmatics") She will worship the God Shiva, re-enter the plantain stem and never again be seen on earth.”[235](../../235/ "tree and pragmatics") The king heard the story and resolved to stay there all night.[236](../../236/ "tree and pragmatics") He did so and at midnight he saw one of the plantain stems open.[237](../../237/ "tree and pragmatics") Out of it came the queen of the Anardes.[238](../../238/ "tree and pragmatics") She began to pray to the God Shiva.[239](../../239/ "tree and pragmatics") Before she had ended her prayer, the king caught her by the hand.[240](../../240/ "tree and pragmatics") “Who are you?” cried the queen “and why do you take my hand?”[241](../../241/ "tree and pragmatics") “I am your husband Rupsinh,” replied the king penitently.[242](../../242/ "tree and pragmatics") “I have been blind and cruel.[243](../../243/ "tree and pragmatics") But pray forgive me and I shall live with you always.”[244](../../244/ "tree and pragmatics") The queen was unwilling to stay, but Rupsinh held her firmly all night by the hand.[245](../../245/ "tree and pragmatics") Next morning the king’s ministers and the widowed queen missing him, went in search of him.[246](../../246/ "tree and pragmatics") When they found him at the temple, the king told his sister-in-law all that had happened and begged her forgiveness also.[247](../../247/ "tree and pragmatics") The widowed queen, to test the story, shewed the pomegranate to the fairy queen and bade her hide herself inside it.[248](../../248/ "tree and pragmatics") She did so.[249](../../249/ "tree and pragmatics") The widowed queen called to her and she came out.[250](../../250/ "tree and pragmatics") The widowed queen had no longer any doubts.[251](../../251/ "tree and pragmatics") She buried the pomegranate in the earth and went back with the king into his city.[252](../../252/ "tree and pragmatics") There the king called together the townspeople and before them all repudiated the sweeper woman Rukhi.[253](../../253/ "tree and pragmatics") He then had her hanged on the very spot where the bania girl had been executed.[254](../../254/ "tree and pragmatics") After thus ridding himself of Rukhi, he sent for the Princess Phulpancha and married her as well as the queen of the Anardes.[255](../../255/ "tree and pragmatics") In their company and that of the widowed queen, the king lived happily for ever so many years afterwards.[256](../../256/ "tree and pragmatics") III.[257](../../257/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/) **2** - ← previous: [page 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