Synopsis
Marvi (Sindhi: مارئي), a beautiful village maid of Khaur, Tharparkar, Sindh, Pakistan was betrothed to Khet (Sindhi: کيت) whose rival Phoag (Sindhi: ڦوڳ) went to the court of King Umar Soomro (Sindhi: عمر سومرو) at Umarkot, Pakistan, and spoke of the beauty of Marvi in such a glowing terms that the King himself rode out to the village and brought Marvi to Umerkot, where he persuaded her to give her consent to marry him. Marvi refused. The King tried his best to make her understand that she would be the queen living in the palace, and that she could have golden ornaments, silken-apparel, tasteful dishes, fruit of all the kind, maidservants and everything else she would imagine; Marvi would always reply that she would prefer the hamlet of poor with sand dunes around to the palace and the gardens; coarse clothes and loee head-wear (made of coarse woolen thread); the loaf of bread made out of grass seed to the rich dishes; Chibhar, Golara and other wild fruit to the mangoes and pomegranates, as far as the golden ornaments are concerned:
"It is not the custom of Maru folk.
To exchange kith and kin for gold."
Since Umar was merely a King and he did not want to impose his will on Marvi. In the meanwhile, witnesses affirmed that Marvi was, in fact, related to Umar as sister. Umar however believed this, bestowed all the favor on Marvi, and sent her back to her village of folks of her own, honorably, where she joined Khet, and lived happily.
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