Queen of Shah Abdul Latif -MOOMAL- RANO

During sixteenth century in the Sukkar district of Sindh near Mirpur Mathelo area Gujjar
chieftains used to rule. During that time a king named Nand ruled there. He had nine
daughters but amongst all Moomal was most beautiful and Soomal was most clever.
Once while hunting he came on the bank of a canal. He was following a swine. To his
utter amazement when the swine entered the waters of canal, water in front of him
parted and made a way for him. Thus following his prey he also reached on the
opposite bank of the canal. There he killed his prey, cut it into parts and started
throwing them into the river one by one. When he threw the front tooth of swine into
water it started receding. He collected that tooth and safely secured it and brought it
back with him. Through this stratagem he buried all his treasure in the bed of the canal
and no body knew anything about it.
Perchance one magician came to know that King Nand has such a tooth and he
came to Mirpur Mathelo to get hold of that tooth. Once king Nand embarked on a
long journey. Taking this opportunity the magician came in the guise of a medicant
(Jogi) and raised his cry for alms. Hearing his piteous wails Moomal came out and asked
him what he wanted. He said that he suffered from a terrible disease and he has been
advised by healers that a special type of tooth of a swine would heal him. “You are
rulers you must be having many such things with you” he said. Moomal recollected that
her father indeed had such a tooth. She did not know anything about the secret quality
of that tooth. She searched for the tooth, found it and gave it to the Jogi. Taking it he
ran from that place post haste.
Soon thereafter King returned from his sojourn. One day he wanted to see his treasure
and searched for that special tooth but he did not find it. On enquiring he came to
know of the true incident that had taken place in his absence. He was very angry and
in this wrathful mood he was about to kill his daughter Moomal but Soomal restrained his
sword and promised him that by any means she will restore his lost treasure to him.
Soomal herself was expert at magic and creating illusions. She thought of a plan
whereby they would be able to continuously amass wealth. She left Mirpur Mathelo and
settled in Ludano city of district Jaiselmer. There through illusion she got a castle of Kaak
built, got it surrounded with thick gardens and the path that led to the palace was
designed as a maze where anyone would loose himself. In the front of the palace she
got illusionary water lake made which was actually made of a glass but created an
illusion of a lake with rippling water. In the front main door of palace were kept artificial
lions whose roars would shake the sky and the earth. In the drawing room there were
seven identical looking beds covered in the same way but six cots were made of flimsy
strings and any one sitting on them would fall into deep well specially made for the
purpose, only one of them was proper bed.