Amar Chitra Katha No. 328 March 1, 1985 a Editor ANANT PAI 2 Associate Editors. Prevrtiy ‘CHANDRAKANT SUBBA RAO ‘Script: GAYATRI P. Artworks. SOUREN ROY Art Consultant RAM WAEERKAR Production GOVIND KOTWANI Ok Published by: _G. MIRCHANDANI for IH Publishers Pvt. Lid., ‘Mahalaxrii Chambers, | 22, Bhulabhai Desai Road, bay 400 026 and printed by him IBH Printers, Marol Naka, _ | Mathutadas Vissanji Road, | Andheri (East, Bombay 400059. | ©iGH Publishers Pvt. ied... Bombay 400 026. All rights reserved 1984. Distributors in U.S.A. Admans Enterprises Inc. 1123 Broadway Suite 1010 New York N.Y, 10010 Subscription: (in india only) Rs, 48/-for 12 [Link] Rs. 96/- for 24 issues. (Add Rs. 5#- for outstation cheques!. Sole Authorised Agency for } Nav Prabhat Chambers, Ranade Road, Dadar, Bombay 400 028. When you buy a Chitra Katha inate ead _—s ‘Subscriptions: Partha Books Division, RAJBALA There are many who love to tell a story and many more who love to listen to one. And each time a story is retold, it acquires a new colour and a fresh dimension. The grandmother who heard a story asa little girl from her grandmother, tells the same story to her grandchild but with a few embellishments of her own. The traveller from a distant land who happens to hear a story in the course of his travels, later tells it to his own people, modifying it to make it more dramatic or more acceptable to his audience. That is how stories which had first been told centuries ago have been kept alive and why we find recurring themes in the tales. told in different regions separated by hundreds of miles. _ This Chitra Katha retells two folktales from Sind, now in Pakistan. We regret because of labour trouble we have not been able to bring out the issue dated February 15, 1985. Subscriptions will be adjusted accordingly. Also because of this change in schedule the second issue of March and thereafter the second issue of every month will be the Mahabharata series in Amar Chitra Katha. Editor OUR NEXT RELEASE ON March 15, 1985 Mahabharata—1 Veda Vyasa Over 320 titles now onsaleWHEN THE YOUTHS st00D BEFORE THE ‘Rawan| WHO ARE y WE ARE RAJIPUTS IN NEEDDE | sion Sa WORK, MY NAME 1S AJIT SINGH, VERY WELL. BOTH OF You may STAY HERE. 4OU WILL BE PAID FIVE RUPEES A DAY = | R YOUR. SERVICES.RAJBALA TWE BEATERS BEGAN CLOSING IN FROM THREE | |:+. TOWARDS THE RANA. es a BEFORE THE t ON THERANA... 10M COULD POUNCE4d f E WELL DONE, GULAB TL ONLY DID LATER AT THE PALACE THE RANA PREG: SINGH. YOU WILL BE 44 DUTY, ROBE OF HONOUR TO GULAB SINGH. REWARDED RANAJI. ae THIS. on YY - GULAB SINGH, YOU SHALL NOW }) 23 ee + BE THE CAPTAIN OF MY Se Ae athe ng bat etl FROM NOW ON 1AM HONOURED, YOU WILL BE IN RANAL, BUT+. | cHARGE OF MY = fi \ uT--- AJIT SINGH | STATE PALACE AND TeeRAJBALA ONE COLD STORMY DAY, GULAB SINGH WHO WAS ON DUTY AT THE STATE PALACE SUDDENLY BROKE QUT OM HEARING THIS AdIT SINGH REPLIED, THE LORD 15 JUST, IN Hit 1 TRUST HEAVEN WATCHES STILL THOUGH EARTH BE SLEEPING. SOME SIN DONE IN SOME FORMER L THE DARK RAIN POURS, THE RIVER ROARS THE LIGHTNINGS FLASH THE f , STORM GOD'S IRE, See Reere IS THe Rains-soanen roune See GLEAMS ALL AROUND] ae SAND YET, WITHIN, MY HEART'S ! ON FIRE, IS NOW MY HEART FRoM dour HEART KEEPING. PO YOU MEAN GULAE SINGH AND \ AIT SINGH? RANAII, OF THE TWO CAPTAINS OF 4OUR GUARD ONE IS A WOMAN. RANA, | MAY BE WRONG. STILL, THERE [5 NO HARM IN GUESTIONING THEM, VERY WELL,IF \ YOu INSIST.omar chitra katha THE NEXT DAY, AS ANIT SINGH AND GULAB THE RANA WOULD SINGH WERE GETTING READY TO LEAVE FOR LIKE TO SEE BOTH OF THE PALACE, THEY HEARD A KNOCK AT THE ONCE. Poor. Boy E DID YOU SEND FOR US, RANAJI?RAJBALA FORGIVE US, RANAJI. | AM AJIT SINGH, #44 FATHER WAS RAJA AMAR SINGH ‘OF UMARKOT. M4 FATHER'S LANDS WERE SEIZED BY THE RAJA OF SIND AND HE \ CIEP A POOR MAN. 1 WAS BROUGHT UP BY M4 WIDOWED THEN, GuLAB, \Y YES.1 AM HIS WIFE, You MUST BE } RAJBALA, THE DAUGHTER THE WOMAN. OF THAKUR PRATAP SINGH OF VISHALPUR. WHEN WE WERE INFANTS , uP. \, PAJBALA WAS BETROTHED || MATHER TOO DIED. LONELY 7 AND FORLORN, | SENT AN : ELDERLY RELATIVE To ae PRATAP SINGH To REMIND /f | HIM OF HIS PLEDGE.- omar chitra kathe EAS THERE WHEN HIS THAT PAUPER AJIT SINGH RELATIVE ARRIVED. MY HAS THE AUDACITY TO ASK ~ FATHER'S REACTION FOR MY DAUGHTER'S BuT I'VE SHOCKED ME HEARD HE |S BRAVE AND r HANDSOME. AND A TRUE SO WHAT! DO YOU WHAT ABOUT DOESN'T q EXPECT ME GIVE AWAY WY \ THE PROMISE BEFIT A RAJPUT TO \ Go BACK ON HIS yO MADE TO DAUGHTER TO A PAUPER RAJA AMAR WHO WILL DEPEND ON HER FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE? Tv ~ WORD. fy +++) COULD SET A CONDITION WHICH HE WOULD NEVER BE | \- ABLE TO FULFIL. ALL RIGHT. 1 CAN*T GO BACH ON_M4 WORD. BUT... zTHAT WAS WHEN 1 DECIDED THAT COME WHAT MAY | WOULD WHAT = WAS THE CONDITION? | B.(/AND | DIDN'T HAVE Bh EVEN TWENTY RUPEES WITH ME. ‘ci 4 1 el S i Bes ll i | COULD MARRY RAJBALA iz VE THE THAKUR Tw THOUSAND RUPEES. Tema (g Som 5 NTY ex- = 4 ‘SO 1 RODE To JAISALMER AND SAI MONEY-LENDER, MY FATHER HAD OFTEN HAD DEALINGS WITH HIM. 1 ASKED FOR HIS HELP,omar chitra katha FE Baie ” ) WENT TO V/SHRLPUR AND SOUGHT AN THE THAKUR WAS UNHAPPY WITH THE TURN [AUDIENCE WITH THE THAKUR,” —_— OF EVENTS. BUT HE COULD NOT GO BACK ON MERE 6 THE =. aoe om ‘ _ ss ARRANOEMENTS fe THE SAHIB. f > i MARRIAGE. Si EA HA 7 | EIS Neiedeeny - / aND SO WE M4 FATHER GAVE US ONE OF HIS WERE ee PALACES To LIVE IN AND WE MARRIED. Je Bei SHOULD HAVE BEEN i = HAPP* { "Bur AS THE DAYS WENT BY.1 FOUND STHEN ONE DAY | DECIDED TO, FIND- OUT MY HUSBAND BECOMING MOODY ANE WHAT THE MATTER WAS."HAVE | DONE SOMETHING | NO!NO! WRONG ?Have | 1 LOVE 4OU | } LOST YOUR RAJBALA: WE? $0 1 TOLD HER ABOUT THE LOAN THAD TAKEN. 1 WILL HAVE To } EARN THE MONEY BY GETTING RAJBALA, BUT WHAT? 1AM YOUR WIFE NOW. YOU HAVE TO SHARE YOUR JOS AND SORROWS WITH ME. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT bee WILL, HAVE NO PEACE TILL REPAY mt BUT THAT CAN’T & DONE HERE IN VISHALPUR.amor chitra katha 1 KNOW. | WILL HAVE TO Look FOR WORK IN SOME \OTHER KINGDOM, BUT ICAHPT BEAR THE THOUGHT OF BEING AWAY FROM WE WILL 60 WITHOUT BUT YOUR HIS KNOW LEDGE THEN. TONIGHT AND 50 We CAME 4 WELL, You \ HERE DISGUISED AS Ph “ HAVE MORE THAN |] 4) BROTHERS-IN-LAW J] / EARNED IT BY as fi TO EARN TWENTY THOUSAND RUPEES TO REPAY A mMRAJBALA, a ial HE CALLED FOR HIS TREASURER | ee = [he Rana enue roma mn, OUR GULAB IS TRULY A PRANARAKSHAK Devi, \ i |GIVE HER THE RO} h | AND JEWELS BEFITTING HER STATUS. REPAY THE LOAN WITH THIS MONEY.) WFLEE SAVING GODDESS‘omar chitra katha "SUDDENLY HE HEARD SOMEONE BIR SINGH, THE CROWN PRINCE OF VALLRBHIPURA. LOST TRACK OF HIS COMPANIONS WHILE [Link] AND TIRED HE DECIDED TO REST FOR A WHILE IN A GARDEN FULL OF SHADY TREES. pom oD a f Bi Tie TIME HE REACHED THE SPOT, THESONG WAS OVER AND A DISCUSSION WAS OW. itn? ee git aivie ras A 2 AE LZ HOW TRUEL WITHOUT A MOTHER HOW MEN TREAT OR A WIFE, MEN ARE WOMEN DEPENDS LOST AND YET THEY VERY MUCH ON THE |” HAVE NO RESPECT WOMEN THEM - se FOR WOMEN. SEWES. AND IF HE DOES NOT TREA ME As | ExPECT HIM TO. a = | HAVE DECIDED To HOW. MARRY BIR SINGH, | INTERESTING! JHE RAJKUMAR OF a ‘ VALLABHIPURABIR SINGH AND SUNDERBAL Ci 1 DO SO BY SHOWING HIM THAT WOMEN CAN BE AS CLEVER, BRAVE AND STRONG AS MEN. AND THIS BEAUTIFUI GARDEN ®amar chitra kathe DEW Divs CATER PRIEST came TO || RAIA KESAR/ SINGH READILY ACCEPTED: | WE PALACE OF RAJA KESARI SIGH. | | THE PROPOSAL SINCE IT HAD COME FROM A THE RAJA OF VALLABHIPURA SEEKS THE HAND OF YOUR PAUGHTER RAJKUMAR! SUNDERBAL FOR HIS SON KUMAR RAS —fl SUNDEREAI, M\ 1 WILL, RECIOUS CHI [AS SUNDERBAI WAS ABOUT 70 LEAVE FOR HER HUSBAND'S WOME — ZB 1, nae XM Se Z PI Lb, MAKE Loo \_ FATHER. } \ ‘USE OF THIS ‘RING (f_- + Pf IF THE NEED te SES, y Neee iy" VAY A A flyROOM FOR Bik SINGH. BIR SINGH AND SUNDERBAI THAT EVENING SUNDERERI WAITED IN NER || MANY DAYS PASSED BUT BIR SINGH DID MOT COME TO HER. © rae ye. | Hew One DAY — || princess THERE IS. A FESTIVAL AT THE | TeMpLe..wi pon’r | 40U GO TOIT? IT | WILL CHEER you up, _-< — ie SUN LEE e ae TEMPER NY: HER MAIDS— al INSIDE THE TEMPLE, =, SUNDERBA). PRAYED. 70 PARVATI. a OH GODDESS, BLESS My HUSBAND IN EVERY WAY.camer chitra hatha [Were is THE STRENGTH ’ UNTIL 4OU PROVE AND VALOUR OF WHICH ' y YOUR WORDS | WILL i BOASTED IN YOUR | ie NOT STEP INTO 4OUR| ol a PALACE. GARDEN ? (TIS BENEATH MY DIGNITY TO PROVE MYSELF. YET TO WIN Mo HUSBAND *S LOVE AND RESPECT, | WILL DO IT.BIR SINGH ANO SUNDERBAL TAKE THIS RING YO MY FATHER AND TELL HIM TO 6ET AWAY FROM THE PALACE, SH aN ) i ae 1 THE MAID WENT 70 SHALYA AND GAVE KESAR/ SINGH) THE RING AND! THE MESSAGE, OH MY CHILD, WHEN \ }GAVE YOU THE RING | LHRD FULL FAITH THAT WOU WOULD NEVER NEED TO USE IT. bb | AM_IN TROUBLE. I MusT SEND PLEASE SEND ME A HER THE THINGS MAN'S PRESS,A surT| | SHE REQUIRES, AND OF ARMOUR AND A WITHOUT LETTING SWIFT HORSE BUT OTHERS KNOW. LET NO ONE KNOW |. OF IT.amar chitra katha SUNDERBAI WPRTIENTLY WAITED FOR HER 1S RESPONSE. | | Ww om Vow | YOU SET | d ss meses < fl S SINCE YOU DIDN'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW ABOUT IT, W | THE KING HAD A TUNNEL | BUG FROM THE OUTSKIRTS | | OF VALLABHIPURA TO YOUR PALACE. oy = ie 3 Das YOUR FATHER HAS SENT 4OU THE THINGS \. 4OU ASKED FOR, RAJKUMAR. >WHERE ARE THE THINGS > INDERBRI TNEN DOWNED HER DRESS AND [ees Ee, cae |amar chitra katha THO DAYS CATER A HANDSOME YOUTH PRESENTED HIMSELF BEFORE THE RAVA IPURA. : ; Mtoe CS, ENS illfeketesre'e. eaghegr Ace ee We = i | a Se pT ae eees TAM A RAJPUT, oa i e- = = Li: eae 4 ‘ ‘SINGH oe | | De La 4 'S (ee OF Give MEA CHANCE TO YOU SHALL TAKE A PLACE AMONG M4 BLES. NOBLES. RATAN SINGH.BIR SINGH AN SUNDEREAL 4 : Zz AND ONE DAY HE TOL RATAN Att ABOUT Joetcan HS : Z| | SUNDERBAI Gon Ne y- eS 4 =| |=. | LOVE WITH ANY ie TRAINED, = ee Seamer a. BIP SINGH. J i ie, RAK ? NO!NO!! LOVE SUNDERBAI. Baws Bie SINGH pevecorer ” eee 2 ‘AERECHION FOR THE 4OUTH. ANI NLY HER. IF SHE IS A TRUE sur, CMANT. TO RAIPUT WOMAN, ] SS TEST HER TO LL?amar chitra katha ONE DAY — | MAHARAS. A LION ALL THE NOBLES IS CREATING HAVOC ON) HAVE TRIED BUT THEY THE OUTSKIRTS OF HAVE NOT BEEN THE CITY ABLE TO CAPTURE OR KILL IT. < HE WILL ANG LAM SURE HE WILL, SUCCEED. EXCELLENT! WOW LET US Tal I(T TO THE WHERE THE LIONBIR SINGH AND SUNDERBAI WHEN THE IMAGE WAS INSTALLED , RATAN SENT THE MEN AWAY AND GOT INTO IT. Tr RUSHED AP MAGE Wald To kuock 17 DOWN. RATAN SINGH WAITED FOR THE | RIGHT OPPORTUNITY TO ATTACK. WHEN IT CAINE HE SLIPPED 7 r AT MIDNIGHT THE LION CAME, JA WAS VERY PLEASED. | RATAN SINGH, | HONOUR 4OU WITH THIS ROBE AND A GRANT OF LAND FOR YOUR COURAGEOUS ACT. SnONE DAY THE RAJA OFF VUNGLE TO HUNT. omar chitra katha DECIDED 70 GOTO A FAR- THEM, 7F WAS WHEN THE PARTY WAS RESTING THAT A HORSEMAN CAME RIDING TOWARDS. MAHARAJ, ALLIS Lost f ee WHAT ARE 4OU SAYING? WHAT HAS / YOU LEFT WE WERE |__HAPPENED? _ SUDDENLY ATTACKED. MAHARAL, AFTER VALLABHIPURA HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER h BY MARAUDERS. AND... AND 4 aay (Ae; Pon \\i y = at eo od BIR SINGH HAS BEEN \ NO! OH) —~TAKEN CAPTIVE. AY — SON! TWILL WIN BACK VALLABHIPURA AND BRING BIR SINGH | MAHARAJ, TAKE HEART. HOW CAN YOU DO THAT SINGLEHANDED 2. RAJA KESARL tate SINGH 1S MY es KINSMAN. | WILL Pp RATAN SINGH RODE OUT | TOWARDS SHALYA,..BIR SINGH AND SUNDERBAI -AND SOOM RETURNED WITH THE PICK OF RUA KESAR! SINGH'S ANGERS. : } ¥0U LAUNCH A MOCK ATTACK ON. za ae THE CITY FROM THREE SIpes. 4 VLL TAKE CARE OF THE ii REST. 7 hg E RATAN SINGH LED HIS GROUP 70 TE ENTRANCE OF THE TUNNEL, WHILE THE ENEMY REJOICES OVER ITS VICTORY, WE WILL ENTER THE CITY THROUGH THIS WSIDE THE FORT THE INVADERS WERE CELEBRATING THEIR VICTORY. NEVER WAS WICTORY SO EITHER! wT MOVE! 4OU ARE oP Ty m, SURROUNDED! 4BIR SINGH AND SUNDERGAI RATAN SINGH WENT | INTO SUNDERBAI’S PALACE SOME - TIME BACK. [gir siwcn! “Wicamero \ 4OU HAVE COME ] MEET RATAN, Tome! \ Ny LOOK INTO M4 FACE! } YOU MIGHT FIND 4OUR DEAR FRIEND THERE. IR Ot es MAY GODDESS \ PARVATI BLESS My HUSBAND TN EVER IR,IwWweirs ohe-17 Compited by: Swarn Khandpur Niustrated by: S.K. Parab DID YOU KNOW... ..that decorated beads of varied shapes and materials have been- found in all Harappan sites 7 ..that some beads of gold found are smaller than a pin-head in size and the steatite (soft stone) ‘ones are as thin as paper-and are referred to as “wafer beads”? ..that some of the beads measure ‘one to three millimetres in length: and one millimetre in diameter 7 Bas “Mound of the _civilization flo © (aici To which ct = do these arti Which community worships Jhulelal— God of Water?i Thefesepwyall SareerE iss "i each win a prize of Rs. 10. 2. The remaining all-correct entries will each win a colbucal picture post card, 3. The decision of the judges is final and binding. 9 4. Mail your entries, tentry form given i below) to: AMAR CHITRA KATHA QUIZ CON TEST Post Bag No. 16542 " Cumballa Hill P.O., Bombay-400 026, Qula-n7 ENTRY FORM Name : Age: Address : slocal name of a place where a great than 4000 years ago. What was its aoe The last date for r antries 37,3 t I t t ! ! ! 1 1 1 |