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Sindh
also have fame of being the land of seven
historic and tragic romances and one among
these is of the Soomro ruler Raja Chanesar
[King of Dewal- Sindh] & his queen Lila, the
story is also mentioned in the " Shah Jo
Risalo" [written by Shah Abdul Latif] said to
be mirror of Sindhi literature. Lila was very
fond of precious stones, Diamonds and Jewelry,
both the king and queen were enjoying a
peaceful and lovely married life.
In the
near by area of Ktuchh Rana Khanghar was
ruling Lakhpat, he had only one daughter named
"Kaunru", the love and affection she attracts
due to being the only daughter of Rana, and
the physical beauty she have, made her proudly
and some what arrogant . Kaunru was engaged
with Utmadi. One day Jammi, sister of Utmadi,
who was also friend of Kaunru, teased kaunru
about her beauty with words " Why you are so
proud of your beauty, if you are so beautiful,
why not you are the queen of King Chanesar?" .
These words proved much hurting for the
Kaunru and she decided either to marry with
Chanesar or commit suicide. When the parents,
specially mother Mirkhi came to know about
this, they tried to give lessons of
understanding to her, as both of them were
aware of the love and commitment of chanesar
towards Lila. All their effort yielded no
positive result as Kaunru refused to change
her decision.
A long
discussion and consultation took place between
father Rana Khanghar and Mother Mirkhi and
finally Kaunru and Mirkhi set off for Dewal
Sindh. Both of them were disguised as traders
and succeeded in generating contacts with
Jakhiro, the minister of Chanesar, who
promised to help by puting a word about the
beauty of Kaunru before the king. History says
Chanesar become much angry and instruct
Jakhiro not to talk on this topic again just
because he loves Lila so much that in presence
of her can't think even of a lady from Heaven
[Apsara from the darbar of Indira]. this was a
disheartening news for the mother and daughter
but Kaunru was determined so she tried another
trap. She asked her mother to dress up like
the ordinary people and went to Palace of
Lila. Both of them requested the queen for
grating a chance to serve her and King as
poverty forced them to leave their country.
Lila become impressed with story so she
appointed them as her personal servants and
ask Kanuru to take care of Bed room of King.
With
the passing of time mother was losing hope but
Kanuru was keeping her patience and waiting
for the day of her success. One day in the
evening Kanuru was preparing the bed for the
king, all of sudden she remembered the
comforts she and her mother were having at
their Palace, her eyes were filled with tears
considering the hard life, which her mother is
having only due to her. Lila, who was there
but unnoticed by Kanuru saw all this and asked
for the reason of tears. Kanuru was very
intelligent so she decided to take this
opportunity as one move towards her aim. She
told Lila that at one time she was a princes
and was used to enjoy all the comforts and
luxurious life which Lila have, the only
difference was that she was habituate to use a
"Navlakha Har" [a necklace priced 9 lakh buck]
which she still have as the memory of those
golden days of her life.
All
this was almost unbelievable for Lila, but her
love and greed for the jewelry was forcing her
to believe and when Kanuru showed that
necklace to her she become eager to have it.
Lila asked Kanuru about the price of necklace
as she was ready to pay anything for that
mesmerizing neckless. Kanuru refuse to sale
the, however she told Lila that she will be
giving her necklace as a gift if she allow
Kanuru to spend one night with Chanesar. The
necklace was a beauty of its own hence Lila
talked with Chanesar about this who refuse to
do so.
A few
days went but Lila was remembering the beauty
of necklace and feeling the growing emotions
for having it. One day Chanesar, went out for
a party and return back to palace in heavily
drunk condition. Lila decided to take
advantage of this, she allowed Kanuru to share
bed with Chanesar in exchange of that
necklace. Unfortunately on next morning
Chanesar wake up some what earlier than his
routine and was shocked to see Kanuru into his
bed , he was still in confused status of mind
and wondering about the happenings of last
night, when Mirkhi entered into bedroom she
narrated Chanesar about the happening. All
this was sufficient reason for loss of tempre
by Chanesar. He decided to broke all his
relations with Lila as she insulted him for a
mere necklace and decided to get married with
Kanuru considering the troubles and suffering
she went under for her love for Chanesar.
Lila
tried to apologize, she cried and promised not
to commit mistake again, even she become ready
to distrubute all her jewelry among the poor
but Chanesar was with firm mind that as she
had scarified him for jewelry so he will not
change his decision. Finally Lila left the
palace went to stay with her parents, where
she started to spend life in repentance and
solitude.
Jakhiro,
the minister of Chanesar was engaged with a
girl from family of Lila and in these changed
situations family decided to broke this
engagement and not to go far marriage. Jakhiro
tried his level best and finally approached
Lila for the help. She agreed but only on the
condition, if he can bring Chanesar on his
wedding. This wasn't a tough asking so Jakhiro
agreed. On the decided day Chanesar was there
with the wedding party of bridegroom. Lila
decided to be part of girls group, who were
assigned task of entertaining the wedding
party with their dance and singing.
Lila
was performing with a semi transparent fabric
covering her face. During the time passed time
Chanesar become aware of whole story about
Kanuru and also become fade up of her proudly
and arrogant nature and started to remember
happy and peaceful days with Lila and this
voice of covered face took him in those golden
days, it was a hard task for him to tolerate
situation so he went on the stage and bagged
the girl to unveil her face. It was so
shocking for him to discover the face of Lila
behind the semi transparent fabrics that he
fall down on floor and in the same moment
died. All this happening proved a reason for
the death of Lila at very same moment she fall
on the side of Chanesar and respired for last. |