From Takala Saora Folklore
Adarsai Raja ruled in Dodsagarh. He was rough and quarrelsome. He had one daughter, a most beautiful girl, whom he would marry to no one. In Dundagarh was Mandarsing Raja. He had one son, a handsome youth named Chokusai. One day Chokusai came to Dodsagarh and being thirsty went to drink water from the lake. At this moment Adarsai’s daughter came to bathe. When he saw her, Chokusai’s head spun round and round and he fell in a swoon. When he recovered he called one of the girl’s companions and asked whether the princess was married. He rode home in despair and refused to eat or drink till his father promised to marry him to the girl.
Chokusai’s mother was full of magic. She gave the boy an enchanted leaf and sent him to do with the girl as he willed. He rode to the lake and hid the leaf under the stone on which the princess used to bathe. When the girl came she was filled with love and Chokusai put her on his horse and rode away with her. Her companions ran home and told Adarsai Raja. Full of rage he summoned his subjects to invade Dundagarh. In the battle Adarsai Raja killed half Mandarsing Raja’s people, and Mandarsing Raja offered him half his kingdom, but Adarsai Raja refused. Then Chokusai’s mother got very angry and turned Adarsai Raja into a pig and his army into rocks and stones. She made a broad river flow around Dodsagarh so that none could go in or out. There was now only women in Dodsagarh, for all its men were killed. It was the Land of Women and here women lay with women. No male children were born – if there was one it had no bones* – there were only girls.
Source:
Chapter 21, Myths of Middle India, Verrier Elwin, 1949
* A local taboo against lesbianism suggests that sexual intercourse between women can produce girls, but that any boys resulting from such intercourse are born without bones, dying quickly.




