PRITHI RAI
299
It was dark when they brought the news to Sanjogata, waiting in the shadows of the palace. But red grew the night with the funeral fire, when she had heard. For her eye brightened when they told her, and her lips smiled. "Then must I haste to my lord w^here he awaits me," said this Rajput queen gaily, and with the words she sprang into the flames.
So passed away the old Hindu kings and queens of Delhi, and all things were changed in India, and Mohammedan sovereigns reigned in their stead.
