Fairy introduction

Rabindranath Tagore

The prince is over twenty years old,

Marriage comes from abroad.

Ghatak said, 'Bahlikraj's daughter is Ruposhi, like a shower of white roses.'

The prince turns away, not answering.

The messenger came and said, 'The beauty of Gandharraj's daughter is bursting like a bunch of grapes in a vine.'

The prince went to the forest to hunt. Days go by, weeks go by, never come back.

The messenger came and said, 'I saw the princess of Cambodia; The horizon of the dawn - the eyelids curved like a line, soft in the dew, bright in the light. '

The prince began to read Bhartruhari's poem, not looking up from the book.

The king said, 'The reason? Call and see the minister's son. '

The minister's son L. The king said, 'You are my son's father, tell me the truth, why he does not mind marriage.'

The minister's son said, 'Sir, since your son has heard the story of the fairy, his wish is to marry the fairy.'

The king's order is, where is the place to ask for news.

The great scholars were called, where they opened all the books. Shaking his head, he said that there was no sign of Pariistan in any of the pages of the book.

Then the merchants were called to the royal court. They said, 'I have crossed the sea and traveled to many islands - Eladwip, Marichadwip, Lobangalata land. We went to Malay Island to bring sandalwood, we went to Kailash Devdaruban in search of Mriganavi. I didn't find any address of the place anywhere. '

The king said, 'Call the minister's son.'

The minister's son L. When the king asked him, 'To whom did the prince hear the story of Pariistan?'

The minister's son said, "The one who is young is crazy, wandering in the forest with a flute in his hand. While hunting, the prince hears the story of Pariistan from him."

The king said, 'Well, call him.'

The young madman stood before the king with a handful of forest flowers. The king asked him, 'Where did you get the news of the place?'

He said, 'I always go there.'

When the king asked, 'Where is that place?'

The madman said, 'At the foot of the Chitragiri hill on the border of your kingdom, on the bank of Kamyak-sarovar.'

The king asked, 'Can you see the fairy there?'

The madman said, 'Seen, but not recognized. They live in disguise. Sometimes when he leaves, he goes away with his identity, and there is no way to catch him. '

The king asked, 'How do you know them?'

The madman said, 'Never hear a melody, never see a light.'

The king was annoyed and said, 'It's all madness, get rid of it.'

The prince remembered the words of the madman.

In the month of Falgunmas, the branches of the forest are pushing on the branches, and the edge of the forest is in full bloom. The prince went into painting alone.

When everyone asks, 'Where are you going?'

He did not answer.

A fountain flows through the cave, and it flows into the Kamyaksarovar; The villagers call him bored. The prince took up residence in a haunted temple on that waterfall.

A month passed. The young leaves that grew on the trees became thicker in color, and the forest paths were covered with weeds. At that time, one morning, in a dream, a flute sounded in the prince's ear. When he woke up, the prince said, 'See you today.'

Then he rode on horseback and reached the shores of Kamyaksarobar. See, there is a girl from the hills sitting on the edge of the Padma forest. The pitcher was filled with his water, but he did not rise from the pit. The black girl is wearing a headdress with black hair over her ears, as if she were the first star at dusk.

The prince dismounted and said to her, 'Will you give me that earring of yours?'

The deer that does not know fear is the deer that I understand. Once she bent her neck and looked at the prince's face. Then the shadow of a kiss on his black eyes became darker and darker - like a dream on sleep, like the first hearing on the horizon.

The girl dropped the flower from her ear and handed it to the prince and said, 'Take this.'

The prince asked him, 'Which angel are you to tell me the truth?'

Once he heard the surprise on his face, after that the smile on his smile like the sudden rain of Ashwinmegh, he did not want to stop.

The prince thought, 'The dream came true - the melody of this laughter matched the melody of that flute.'

The prince mounted his horse and extended his arms; He said, 'Come.'

He took her hand and got on the horse, not thinking at all. His water-filled pitcher fell to the ground.

The cuckoo called out from the branches of the tree, Kuhu kuhu kuhu kuhu.

The prince whispered in the girl's ear, 'What is your name?'

He said, 'My name is Qazi.'

The two of them went to the haunted temple on the bank of Udasjhora. The prince said, 'Now take off your disguise.'

He said, 'We are forest girls, we don't know disguise.'

The prince said, 'I want to see your fairy statue.'

Fairy statue! That smile again, smile upon smile. The prince thought, 'The melody of his laughter matches the melody of this fountain, this is my fairy of this fountain.'

The news reached the king's ears that the fairy was married to the prince. From the palace came the horse, the elephant, the quadrangle.

When Qazi asked, 'Why all this!'

The prince said, 'You have to go to the palace.'

Then his eyes widened. I remembered that his pitcher was lying by the water; He remembered that he had brought grass seeds to dry in the yard of his house; Remembering that his father and brother had gone hunting, it was time for them to return; And he remembered that one day when he said he would give dowry at his wedding, his mother was weaving cloth to get a loom under the tree, and was humming and singing.

He said, 'No, I will not go.'

But the drums sounded; Basal flute, kansi, damama- he could not be heard.

When Qazi descended from Chaturdola to the palace, the queen slapped his forehead and said, 'What a fairy.'

The king's daughter said, 'Shh, shh, what a shame.'

The buffalo's maid said, 'What a fairy.'

The prince said, 'Shut up, the fairy has come to your house in disguise.'

Day after day goes by. The prince woke up in bed on a moonlit night to see if Qazi's disguise had fallen off. He saw that the black hair of the black girl was lying down, and that her body was like an idol of God perfected in black stone. The prince sat quietly and thought, 'Where did the fairy hide, like the dawn behind the darkness of the last night.'

The prince was ashamed of the man of the house. One day I felt a little angry. When Qazi left the bed in the morning and went to get up, the prince tightened his grip on his hand and said, 'I will not leave you today - express yourself, I will see.'

The smile that was heard in the forest when he heard such words did not go away. Two eyes filled with tears at the sight.

The prince said, 'Will you fool me forever?'

He said, 'No, not anymore.'

The prince said, 'But this time let everyone see the fairy on the full moon of Karthiki.'

The full moon is now in the middle of the sky. In the middle of the night, in the nahab of the palace, there is a soft melody.

The prince entered the palace with a garland in his hand; Today will be his good fortune with Paribauya.

The bed in the bedroom has a white lining, with a white lotus flower on it; And the moon is shining through the window above.

And, Qazi?

He is nowhere.

The three o'clock whistle blew. The moon is tilted to the west. One by one the family filled the house.

Where is the fairy?

The prince said, 'The fairy leaves with her identity, and then she is not found.'

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