A STRANGER COMES CALLING

This book is about a soldier who comes from Yarkhand across the Himalaya mountains, near Cheena Desha. He goes to a house in another village near Mathura. He meets some people called Ambika, Somadevi, Govinda and Nagadeva. He starts making strange sounds. Ambika recognizes some words of Prakrit. Ambika’s father Nagadeva, a blacksmith, understands what he is saying. He was saying that his horse had tumbled and lost a shoe. His sword’s scabbard was also dented. Ambika and Govinda found the clothes of the soldier very interesting. Ambika’s mother Somadevi gave some hot milk and jaggery to the soldier to eat. The soldier pays for it with a gold coin.