Part 2
after the prize ceremony for competitions, bharmal asked bhagwan daas to see the arrangement of camp for his beloved daughter ...rajkmari heer kunwar was coming to attend a yatra which arranges every year from dehli to mathura on foots. Jodha was attending this yatra with her royal guards and maids.
In palace after award ceremony jalal went to freshened up. His friends were waiting for him to celebrate his success.
" yah kia kar rahe thae tum azetez " adham exclaimed indignantly and punched the short haired boy's shoulder hard as they were waiting out side then prince's chambers .
"Zor sae shehzady, aur zor sae , mujhe laga tum meri taraf ho"
before azeez,koka replied , jalal came out from his room, freshened and all royally dressed up
Every one straitened up in his respect and murmured while bowing little
"Sahib e alam, sahibe alam"
Jalal nodded carelessly
"Kon kis kay saath hae bhai"
"Adham khan ko laga tha kay haa,, un kay saath hain"
Azeez said jokingly
Jalal who was now walking a little ahead, turned and laughed
"is ko pata hae kis godhey par dao (bet) lagana chahiye ... Ham tum sae behter hain adham khan ...is haqeeqat ko jaan bhi lo aur maan bhi lo...yahi tumhre haqq (favor) mae behter hoga adham khan"
Jalal said lightly
"Bhai adham khan maaf karna, magar , sahibe alam ki tau baat hi kia hae, kia krte ham?"
azeez said with comical fake apologetical expressions
And adham saw azeez with gritted teeths
" magar abhi bhi tum sae tau behter hu mae ,"
Adham said sarcastically , not really angry but conscious to saving the remains of his bruised pride infront of other boys, after he had lost the wrestling match...
"Chalo maan lia laikin phir bhi sahib e alam kay samne tau sifer (zero) hi ho na "
All start laughing ... Jalal was also smiling ... He was walking ahead with abdul on his side.
Adham was now fuming
"Kiun! Kia Ghlat kaha mae nae?..."
Azeez koka said mockingly but yelped moment later when adham pulled him into head lock.
Azeez snorted as best as he could in this position then punch adham in the stomach in retribution and and an impromptu wrestling match about to start in the middle of courtyard ... Amused jalal stopped
.
"Choro osey adham ... Khua ma kha ( with out any reason ) baat ko na bharrao"
Jalal was serious in start but ends jokingly
,..". Woh sahi tau kah rha hae..."
He teases adham , shaking his head.
"Bilkul ... " azeez chocked ... Tum... bilku nikammey ...ho ..."
"Mae tumhe btata hu.."
Adham started , but fight was suddenly cut short, bec zaheer exclaimed, made every one paused
"Arey ..! , shazadi aliya"
he hissed, adham and azeez let go of each other immediately ... And every one turn for an instance ...
"...khamosh"
Abdul warned , at the other end of courtyard , shahzadi rukayya sultan with her friends and maids was walking towards royal ladies quarters
"yah tau phele sae zyada khubsurat ho gae hae "
Azeez wispered in adham ear
"Tum itni door sae kese kah sakte hau, ... yaa jiji anga kay bahane shahzadi ko hi dekhte ho zanana mae ? "
Adham whispered while watching carefully to jalal
At that moment , one of princess's friends also noticed them and pointed towards them .They all stopped, rukayya's maids were behaved but her two friends one is roohi and another is koko both are whispering and giggling...rukayya was silently looking at jalal... She was slightly and naughtily smiling at him her eyes were sparkling at sight of her beloved.
"Haddae adab nighah neeche "
Zaheer warned his friends seeing rukayya watching in prince direction ..
Prince companion at once cast down their eyes ... They may be javelin young boys but know royal protocols very well
ignored his companions whispers, jalal glanced his friends and noded to zaheer in expectance and and returned his gaze with the same intensity to rukayya . Both of them were uncertain what to do now. Neither of them made a move to approach the other yet neither made a move to leave either boys and girls waited silently to see what their master and mistress would do now. When it became apparent that neither of them knew what to do then jalal does a gesture of adab to her, his intense eyes were still fix on her .
Shehzadi smiled brightly looked down sheepishly , her hair gleaming in the sun as she bowed her head to him, jalal face also lit up.
"Sahib e alam ! Aap baat kiun nahi kar lete shahzadi sae , who aap ki mankooha hain akhir!!"
Zaheer urged him quietly, breaking the silence. Zaheer was the only one who was looking towards princes beside the prince himself.
"Haan bhai shahzadi kay saath unki daasiya bhi hain"
Adham whispered little bit louder in the ear of aziz koka, standing beside him ... but shut quickly seeing prince warned angry gaze...
Jalal eyes flashed and his jaw clenched. He was just about to speak some angry words to Adham, when suddenly Rukayya seemed to come to a decision, bunching the green taffeta of her elegant gharara in her hands and starting towards them, a look of modest shyness on her face.
"Haddae fazil "
seeing rukayya is coming to him, prince ordered sternly to his companions.
Except zaheer every one move to make enough distance in respect to give royal couple enough space
Koko and rohi were also with rukayya
She did adaab to prince then to zaheer standing behind prince ...
"Mubarak ho "
rukayya said formally, trying not to show smiling ,
"aap ko bhi hamari jeet mubark ho"
jalal replied meanigfully.. And put his hand on koko head with brotherly love ... Koko also smiled affectionaly to prince.
zaheer also nods to roohi with smile ... But didn't show public affection of his brotherly love to his sister and foster sister shahzadi rukayya like prince did
rukayya thinks for a while then says hopeful
"Ham kah rahe thae aaj raaT ka khana aap zanane mae nosh farmatey "
"Zarooor kiun nahi..."
Jalal wants to pull her leg but hold himself bec of his friends ...
...
"Shahzadi...!!!!"
They all started on slightly exclaimed tone of rukayya's daee maa which she calls, anna
Rukayya sees her annoyingly
Anna takes care a lot tht they don't meet out side of zanana...bec jalal foster mother maham anga, bothers and insults her every time whenever jalal and rukayya talk in public.
Anna bowed to prince respectfully , jalal nodded to him , he was really irritated with this indecent interruption of rukayy's nurse maid.
"Roohi shehzadi ko zanan mae le kar jao... "
Anna ordered her daughter and glared zaheer warningly... Zaheer shrugged his shoulder making innocent face
Rukayya turned and left speedily , she was really annoyed
Anna also left in haste after her mistress with slight bow to prince
.. Zaheer sighed in relieve , jalal saw him with a breath of disappointment.
"yah kia tha bhai?"
abdul said to zaheer ,
"Tumhari amma tau aese jata rhi thi kay inhe tanhai mae jaa lia ho inhu nae."
Momin add and pulled zaheer leg, zaheer was ashamed like he took away princess instead of his mother.
all boys were laughing on momin's joke , zaheer saw prince for help, jalal Was angrily blushed a little, but pretended to still stare at the door through which Rukayya had disappeared.
"Bohat hi afsos ki baat hae , who kaley lambe balon wali kaneez dekhi jis nae lal churya pheni thi?
Kitni haseen thi, sochta hu is sae zara baat cheet karu."
Adham said with a leer.
Azeez laughed.
"Tumhare liye behter hae ki us gawalan kay saath hi nain mattakka karo jis kay saath mae nae tumhe phichle hafte dekha tha ."
Adham hissed in indignation.
"Tum nae wada kia tha azeez, tum kisi ko nahi batao ge !"
Everyone laughed at him, except Jalal who was listening with his back still turned towards them.
Embarrassed Adham turned to him to try and quickly change the topic. He put his hand on jalal's shoulder and said.
"Shahzade aap shahzadi kay saath tanhayee mae mulakat kiu nahi karte... Is tarha hm..."
Jalal was far from amused. He suddenly turned on Adham with such a dark, furious look on his face that Adham shrank back even before jalal roughly pushed him in the chest, making him stumble backwards.
"Aur tum apni zaban par kaboo rakho adham khan !"
he hissed, virtually vibrating with rage and grip adham's front hairs in his fist hardly. The other boys quickly fell silent and averted their eyes as Adham stammered.
"Mae..mae tau mazaq kr raha tha shahzade...,"
but that seemed to enrage Jalal even more.
"Mazaq ."
he said dangerously.
"Tumhe lagta hae yah mazaq tha ?"
Adham just stared at him like a rabbit facing a snake, completely taken aback by Prince's unexpected violent outburst.
"Nahi, sahib e alam !, mae ..."
"Tumhari himmat kese hui hamarey samne yah baat karne ki!"
he said, raising his hand to slap him, but just then Abdul and zain stepped in and held him back.
"Uski niyyat buri nhi thi shehzade."
Zain said into his ear.
"Chorro hamey !"
Jalal hissed, his jaw clenching and struggling to get rid of them. They didn't budge however and jalal, breathing hard was left to just glare at Adham.
He stopped struggling and a long tense moment followed, every eyes on Prince
then Abdul suddenly spoke up.
"Ham khaney kay baad ghurr sawari kay liye chlate hain ?"
he said into the stunned silence.
"sahib e alam Kia mae aap kay naye godhe par sawari kar sakta hu ?"
Jala blinked and looked at him, incredulous.
"KIA ? NAHI."
" yah NAA ghudh sawari kay liye yah mera aap kay ghode par sawari kay liye hae ?"
Abdul asked, keeping the out-of-place conversation up without even blinking.
"NAHI.., HAMARE GHODE PAR SAWARI KAY LIYE HAIN!"
JALAL roared and finally managed to shake both ABDUL and ZAIN off.
"Mae kehta hu, hatho pheeche !"
he reiterated, but everyone could see he had already calmed down a bit.
"Chalye na sahib e alam !"
Abdul begged, reaching for his arm.
"Aap hamari itni si arz nahi maan sakte ?"
Jalal just stared at him, then he suddenly shook his head and started laughing
.
Abdul and everyone else joined in in relief and even though it sounded a little strained, they knew the prince's temper tantrum was over,
"Chalo kuch kha lain phir chalte hai ?"
Jalal muttered words
"Chalo jaldi bhai ham... ."
Abdul looked over his shoulder at His friends , when jalal crossed him in btw
"Adham , azeez, tum dono' hamre aaney tak ghodhe tayyar karwao ... "
He ordered and headed towards the door to the dining part of palace.
"Jo hukum shehzade "
Both murmured
Abdul was walking beside prince .They disappeared inside the palace and most of the boys slowly followed, except for azeez and Adham.
"Khuda ki kasam kabhi kabhi kia ho jata hae shehzade ko ?"
Adham whispered to Azeez, caresing his head and setting his hairs..
Azeez shrugged.
"Pata nahi, magar abhi chalo. Shehzade kay hukum ki tameel Karen, tumhari wajha se dopeher ka khana bhi gaya ."
Adham gritted his teeth but azeez already walked away, he was not there to see his reaction.
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Some where near the dehli, jodha's caravan was heading toward its destination.
Princess of amber name was heer kunwar but her near ones call her jodha.
She turned twelve just 2 weeks ago and she asked permission to attend the krishna mandir yatra from her father raja bharmal.
Bhramal hardly refused his ladly beti ever. She was his jaan , his symbol of luck and fortune. But this yarta starts from dehli and he doesn't want to let mughals know this is amber princess caravan so the sainik and guards escorting jodha's caravan were not wearing amber uniform nor they have amber flag but they were fully equipped and resourceful to-protect their mistress.
Rashmi bai, the best friend of rajkumari heer kunwar was the daughter of one of amber samant.
Samant are like governors of small states come under the large states...
Rashmi bai is so particular about her status unlike rajkumari heer kunwar who is very simple by nature.
Jodha was reading a book in his palki. She closes the book and yawned ...then took out a necklace from her neck and hand over to her daasi walking beside her Palki
"Peepli yah rakho hame yatra mae itne gahno sae koft hoti hae"
Peepli laughed and put the necklace inside box she is holding
"Kunwri sa aap yah teesra gehna de chuki hae "
Jodha also smiled
"Acha tanik saniko ko bolo , rashmi ki palki badha kar hamre saath mae le aye"
Daasi does as she was told
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Back in palace in dehli
After supper everything was back to normal again and as zain and abdul had suggested jalal and his companions went for a ride in the extensive deer park near the palace.
"Sahib e alam , agar mera aap kay saath ghur sawari ka hatmi muqable hauta tau yaqeenan jeet meri hi hoti"
Zain khan koka , a milk brother and dear friend of prince tried to provoke him.
Every one knows jalal is the best rider.
"Acha , chalo aisa karte hain ham sab ghudh daur lagate hain takey kisi ko bhi koi khush fehmi aur galat fehmi na rahe.."
Jalal smirked while caressing his magnificent dark brown horse.
"Khayaal tau acha hae sahib e alam... Magarr hamey aap sae jeetne ki koi arzoo nahi hae ."
...abdul momin said amusingly...
"Chalo phir shahrah kay sath wali paharri par jo sab sae phele phohanche ga wohi aaj ka fateh hoga."
"Jesa aap kahe shehzade ... "
Jalal straitened his stallion and and run on ful speed
" Yahhaakh "
...all of his friends also runs their horses fter him
Zain khan was good fast rider , but zaheer was best after prince. adham and azeez were also good.
Abdul u llah normally called abdul and abdul momin both were good riders but they were not soldiers like others.
In no time jalal left all of them behind and reach to the small hill near the turning of main road starts from the meets the entrance of the cirty.
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Jodha caravan now entered in mughL sultat capital delhi...long caravan moving on main road from entrance of the city.
Jodha and rashmis palkis were side by side each other, both of them are chatting and eating imlis.
"Shama kare rajkumari sa , age jaa kar marg adhik tang ho jeyega..palki ko wapis age pheche chalana hoga"
A gurad requested apologetically.
Jodha frowned on discontinuing of their non ending chatting but she knows , he was right
"Theek hae lejaye palki peeche..."
she mutters disappointedly.
Now both are waving each other like they are separating for real.
Daasis were laughing on their mistresses innocence and childishness
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To be continued...!!!!
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Edited by smile.sara - 10 years ago
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