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KOPAL-KUNDALA.
said, "Don't go; wait a moment. I have a favour to ask you."
Kopal-Kundala. What is it?
Adhikari. I have called you mother[1] ever since I have known you. I can touch the feet of the goddess and swear that I love you more than a mother. You must not refuse my request.
Kopa. I won't.
Adhi. My request is this, that you should not return there.
Kopa. Why?
Adhi. If you do, you will certainly be killed.
Kopa. I know that.
Adhi. Then why do you ask me?
Kopa. If I don't go there, where am I to go to?
Adhi. Go with this traveller to another country.
- ↑ Parents frequently address their children affectionately as mother and father. In Orissa old women sometimes address young girls with whom they are on familiar terms as "mousi" (aunt); and Brahman children call their mothers "Bo" or "Bohu," which means daughter-in-law, or the young girl of the family.
