"‘What to say of those sinners (Turks) and their deeds! They killed cow and placing a machine (yantra) over the pile of bags, they flung the dead cow into the waters of the pond.'*" At dawn, when young women went to the pond to fill their pitchers, they found that the water, always clean and clear, looked ruddy,'? and head of a cow was floating above the surface of the water. The water being polluted, no one even brushed his teeth near the pond or washed his face, nor the Panihd@rins filled their pitchers.'*? Soon people flocked to the pond to have alook and were deeply pained on seeing the sorry sight. Water is after all the mainstay of this universe, the maintainer of all life.“ Even the high and mighty Ranas and Rais cannot live without it even for a moment. So thought Satala and then sent forhis queens. When they had arrived, he asked them as to what they might do now?'*5 The queens replied: "Our Lord ! What is there to be thought now? "We all shall enter the Jauhar (Jamahari) fire! The Hindus regard cow as sacred, and its blood is in the water of the pond.' There is no hope left now for continuance of this life; we will not like to survive on this water in any case.""