<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rats Of Bikaner</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rats of black and grey<br>Were scurrying across<br>the floors of Karni Matha Temple.<br>Rats are not a scourge there<br>and people scatter minute eatables.<br>Munching the grains strewn around, <br>the fearless rats scamper about<br>the inner sanctorum of the Goddess.<br>Where had scuttled off that white rat? <br>People searched to ferret it out, <br>but it eludes watch or catch.<br>The sight of it would bring luck and wealth! <br>But I saw one in white marble<br>lying before the idol of Matha.<br>A strange sanctuary for rats<br>in that semi-desert land! <br>Even the dead ones are not given<br>a quick decent burial with rites.<br>The Rajputs don’t celebrate the wedding of rats<br>as we do for asses for abundant rains.<br>Cats scenting rats don’t enter<br>and I am sure there is no rat- fever.<br>People are given preferential visas<br>as they eat meat, chicken, beaf and fork<br>and alas, the flesh of rats ignored! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">News hadn’t reached Ghazni Mohammed<br>or else he would have marched to Bikaner<br>to rob the white rat instead of raiding<br>again and again that Somnathpur<br>passing through the desert and marsh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rajendran+Muthiah">Rajendran Muthiah</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480652" data-title="Rats Of Bikaner de Rajendran Muthiah" data-description="Rats of black and grey Were scurrying across the floors of Karni Matha Temple. Rats are not a scourge there and people scatter minute eatables. Munching the grains strewn around, the fearless rats scamper about the inner sanctorum of the Goddess...."></div> </div> </div>

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