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Ḍholā-Mārūrā Dūhā: A Fifteenth-century Ballad from Rājputānā

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

T. Grahame Bailey
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The story of Dholā and Mārū is told in a stirring RājputānĪ ballad published in the Bālābakhsh Rājpāt Cāran Pustakmālā, series. It is reviewed on another page of this Bulletin.

The story of the poem is briefly this. Pingal, the king of Pūgal, had a daughter called MāravanĪ Nal, the king of Narvar, had a son named Dholā. During a famine Pingal sought temporary refuge in Narvar, where the two rajas betrothed their children to each other. Some years after this Nal, reflecting that Pingal lived far away, and that the journey to his country was perilous, married his son to Mālavani, daughter of the Raja of Mālvā.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , February 1937 , pp. 975 - 979
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1937

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