plump-bodied, wearing anklets on her feet, and a silver girdle round her waist—her face full of smiles. Bhomrâ said, "Khiri! can you go at once to that wretched Rohini?"
Khiri. "Certainly; what am I to say to her?"
Bhomrâ. "Speak in my name and say I bid her put an end to herself."
Khiri. "I am to say that? I go," and Khirodâ, or Khiri, jingling her anklets, set off. As she was starting Bhomrâ added, "Come and tell me what she says."
"Very well," replied Khirodâ. Soon after she returned and said, "I have told her."
Bhomrâ. "What did she say?"
Khiri. "She said, 'Tell her to tell me how to do it.'"
Bhomrâ. "Then go again—go and say, At the Bârunî tank—this evening—with a kalsi tied to her neck.[1] Do you understand?"
Khiri. "Very good."
Again Khiri went and returned. Bhomrâ asked, "Did you tell her about the tank?"
- ↑ Hinting that she should drown herself. See Note 6 in the Appendix.
