jhūlelāla cālīsā

A Hindi chalisa to Jhulelal, whom the Sindhis take as a descent of Varuna, and it is more nearly a chronicle than a hymn. It gives dates. He came down at Nasarpur in Sindh in Samvat 1007, on the second of the bright fortnight of Chaitra, in the house of Ratanrai and Ratanani; and he entered water in Samvat 1020, on the fourteenth of the bright fortnight of Bhadrapada. Between those two the story is told plainly: Mirkhshah ruling at Thatta had it proclaimed that everyone was to convert, the people kept a forty-day fast on the bank of the Indus, and Varuna appeared on a fish. Then the child in the cradle who showed the minister a warrior, and the day the court itself was flooded until the king came to his feet. Its message is given in one line: Hindu and Muslim are the same, stop the conversions.