Day 11 of 30

Yesterday i dint realise, i was 10 days into my 'project 30'...feels good.Irrespective of what i write and whether its good or bad, i am glad i havent give up..hope i will continue this till end.

Ok, coming to today's post...there is a memory that is surfacing time and again these days, i wonder why...i might as well get it out of my system by posting it. To tell the whole story will take a couple of posts, so, lets get started with the first story, it was the story that was told me as a kid and i loved it, you will know the reason why i loved it as you will know more.

Once there was a princess...very beautiful...so beautiful that anyone who looked at her would fall in love with her. And there was a wicked magician, who was smitten by the beauty of the princess. He was a wicked magician, and his wickedness made him want to kidnap the princess.One night, he ordered his servants, to go and bring the princess.

The servants, came to palace, and in the dark of the night, as the theives, put a spell on the sleeping princess, picked up the royal bed the princess was sleeping in and took her to the nearby hill and put her in a spot they would remember later, and rushed to give the good news to their Master.

After a little while, after the servants were gone, the princess woke up, and found herself all alone , on top of a mountain with noone in sight. She was scared, she knew not how she came here and who brought her there. She started to cry and her cries were heard by a saint. He came in the direction of the princess and asked 'What are you doing here and why are you crying?"
The princess told the saint, that she remembered sleeping in the palace, and when she woke up, she found herself in middle of the jungle , all alone and dont know how she came here.

The saint, knew with his divinity what had conspired. He told the princess to stay where she was and to be brave.And he walked away from there.

A little later, the magician arrived with his servants, very happy to know that the princess was now in his grip, but as soon as he approached the princess, there was unbearable stench, a smell so horrible that he couldnt stand it. He was mad at his servants
'Who did you bring?' he yelled at them
the servants, shivering at the anger of their master said, it was the princess as he asked for
but the magician was sure, it was not the princess,because the princess was sweet smelling, not the horrible smelling girl they had brought. Because of the smell, the magician could not proceed any closer , and he left furiously.

After the magician left, saint came to the princess and picked the bed on which the princess was seated and threw it in a lake close by,as soon as the bed hit the water, the bed went into water and princess found herself in a cave. To this day this lake is called 'Palang talab' and the saint whom she called 'Dada' is 'Dada Hayat Kalander' and the mountain called 'Dada Pahaad'

The princess started to live under the protection of the saint, she would cook food, and from the hole of the cave, put out 2 rotis out and then eat.So pious was she, she wouldnt eat before offering food to others.She spent most of her time, in praying and in meditation.

Back in the palace, the king and the prince's were worried. What happened to the princess no-one knew, the bed and the princess had vanished in thin air. The princess had 7 brothers, the 7 prince's set out looking for her sister.

I will stop her and we will continue tomorrow. and for those of you wondering why this story is relevant to me and why i should be posting this, well, the name of the princess was 'Mama Jigni'