kingdom one Brahmin named Naoon used stay on the banks of Bambrah canal.
The name of his wife was Mandhur. After along wait in their middle age they were
blessed with a daughter. She was as beautiful as the moon itself. As was customary
the astrologers were called to read her future. After all the planetary calculations it
was predicted that she was destined to marry a Muslim. As Naoon was a Brahmin
this was not acceptable to him.
A big wooden box was made, the child was put in it and set afloat in the canal. The
box kept with the flow of current and reached near the city of Bambhor. There the
chief of washer man’s clan named Mohammed used to stay. He had about five
hundred people to work under him. When they got the box the same was brought
to their chief. In the box they found a beautiful girl child. Since he did not have any
child of his own he thought her as a gift from God and adopted her as his own
daughter. Due to her exceptional beauty she was named Sasuee (like a moon). As
she grew day by day her beauty also increased with every passing day. She was an
apple of eye of all the people. Mohammed the washer man was also a very happy
person. As he was chief of his tribe and had no dearth of money he got one
beautiful palace with a vast garden surrounding it made for Sasuee, where she
would play carefree with her mates and would some times spin cotton thread on
the spinning wheel.
As Bambhor lay on the trade route to Thatta and other commercial centers many a
mercantile caravan would pass through it. The caravans from Kich Makran a
kingdom situated in south west of Sindh also used to pass from there. This way the
fame of Sasuee’s beauty reached the ears of Punhoon the prince of Kich Makran,
who was son of Aari Jaam the ruler. He was anxious to see such a beauty. In the
guise of a musk trader and other scented perfumes he came to Bambhor .When
Sasuee learnt of this caravan carrying rare scents she came with her friends to
purchase the same. When eyes of Sasuee and Punhoon met some thing inexpiable
happened. As if two souls who were in search of other half to complement itself
had found each other and became one. All said and done it was a love at first
sight. Both would pine for the company or even glimpse of each othe
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