CHITRA

HOTHAL
In Indian mythology, apsaras are beautiful dancers who live in THE STORY OF A CELESTIAL DANCER
heaven. Hothal is different. Though an apsara, she longs to live on
earth like a mortal.
Hothal gets her wish when Indra sends her to live on earth. She finds
that life as a human is harder and even more sorrowful than she can
imagine. Her father is evicted from his kingdom, and they live as
exiles. Even when her beloved father dies, Hothal remains brave and
strong. She decides to disguise herself as a man and avenge the
injustice done to her father. While in disguise, she allies herself with
the valiant Odha and soon falls deeply in love with him.
This story from Kutch is an exciting mixture of war, wit, and romance.

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HOTHAL, THE BEAUTIFUL APSARA* HAP JUST SPENT

A BRIEF PER!OP IN BHARAT*INHERE MORTALS
-:*>* ti HUE. SHE M/AS NOW RETURNING TO AMARA VAT/
Th^ THE ABOPE OF THE GODS.

HOTHAL JOINED HER FRIENDS IN THE/R LIFE OF HOW CAN THAT &E ?
AIMLESS MERRIMENT BUT SHE FOUND NO THEY HAVE TO TOIL
PLEASURE IN IT SHE LONGED TO GO BACK TO ON EARTH.
BHARAT.
IT IS
HOTHAL WEARING HERE!
WHY ARE YOU I PEOPLE
SAP EARTH ARE
HAPPY

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ONE DAY HOTHAL WAS DANCING BEFORE SUDDENLY, SHE STOPPED DANCING
INPRA, THE LORD OF THE PEI/AS. SHE AND STOOD QUITE STILL .
RECREATED THE BEAUTIFUL SCENES SHE
HAD SEEN IN BHARAT AND THE AUDIENCE

HANKERS ALL
THE TIME
FOR BHARAT.

IT 15 WORK LET'S GET ON

WHICH MAKES THE LEISURE WITH THE PANCE.
THAT FOLLOWS 50 COME ON!HURRY!
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COMING OUT OF HER REVERIE, HOTHAL

REALISED THAT INDRA WAS ENRAGED.
' CLEARLY, YOU ARE
OT HAPPY HERE. I AM
GOING TO 5ENP YOU

I HOTHAL WATCHEP THEY PON’T UNPERSTANP f BUT YOU

SILENTLY AS HER. ME HERE ANY MORE.I WISH WILL HAVE
FRIENDS JOINED I WERE BACK IN BHARAT. TO COME BACK
THE OTHERS. IF YOUR ORIGIN
LORP, I CAN
IS PISCLOSEP
ONLY PO AS
YOU ORPER. BY YOUR
L LOVEP ONES.

an S±Al

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HOTHAL
THE KING Of/) SMALL PRINCIPALITY IN
WESTERN GUJARAT FOUND THE BABY. I THEY FOUND THE KING AND HOTHAL LIVED
MOUNT KANARA. ALONE IN THE JUNGLE• HE TAUGHT
VOR BABY ! IT’S HOTHAL SWORD FIGHTING...
QUITE ALONE*
YOU’RE
getting BETTER
EVERY PAY I

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!

THE KING
TOOK THE
BABY
HOME.
f
ty
...AND ARCHERY- I
A FEW YEARS PASSED HAPPILY SHE GROWS
PRETTIER
EVERY PAY!

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THE YEARS WENT BY AND HOTHAL
GREW INTO A YOUNG WOMAN. HER I HAP HOPED
FATHER, WHO WAS NOW GETTING TO SEE YOU
THEN, SUDDENLY, &AMBHANIYA BAPSHAH EVERYONE PERISHED; ONLY THE KING I OLD, WAS WORRIED ABOUT HER
FUTURE. HAPPILY
OF SINDH ATTACKED AND RANSACKED AND HOTHAL MANAGED TO ESCAPE. .MARRIED — *
THE KINGDOM. HOTHAL,YOU HAVE
HELPEP ME BEAR
MY MISFORTUNES.
BUT WHO IN
TURN WILL
CONSOLE
YOU
I PIE?

AM I A BURDEN
HAPPY TOGETHER TO YOU,
'fatintt* NOW, FATHER. LET w FATHER P .
THE FUTURE TAKE
CARE OF ITSELF \
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THEN LET'S HOT TALK HOTHAL LOST NO TIME IN CARRYING OUT PERSON
HUSH ! YOlJ OF MARRIAGE AGAIN | HER MISSION. DISGUISED AS A YOUNG HEADING TOWARDS SINDH ODHAJAM
ARE THE LIGHT I WON’T LEAVE YOU; AMD RAJPUT, SHE JOURNEYED TOWARDS OF KUTCH. *
OF MY OLD NO YOUNG MAN WOULD NAGAR SAMOI, A PLACE IN SINDH. —I BAMBHANIYA'S HARD.OPMA?
AGE, CHILD. AGREE TO SHARE CAMELS ARE SO HARD FOR
OUR LIFE HERE. WELL GUARDED, IT YOU WHOSE
WILL BE HARD TO BRAVERY IS
v LURE THEM OUT..
IN GUJARAT,
RAJASTHAN
AND SINDH ?

THEIR L/FE CONTINUED IN 173 EVEN WHAT WISH

RACE BUT THE K/NG+WHQ KNEW FATHER P
HIS END WAS NEAR, CREW DEJECTED.
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WHAT’S BOTHER¬
ING YOU, FATHER? MY DEAREST AVENGE THE
PLEASE TELL ME. */ WISH HAS RAVAGING
REMAINED OF MY AT MIDDAY ODHA CAMPED NEAR A LAKE. AFTER A WHILE . HE HEARD HIS MEN
UNFULFILLED. KINGDOM. .

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LEAVING HOTHAL ALL ALONE.
I HAVEN’T
FORGOTTEN MY

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AS ODHA CAME UP TO THE YOUNG *RAJPUT 'PULLED OUT THE
...YOU CAN EXTRICATE THE THEM —
ARROW WHICH I WILL AIM
AT THE TRUNK OF THAT

AGREEP

THE ARROW
HAS GONE
CLEAN
THROUGH —
UPTO THE

HOTHAL HID HER TRUE IDENTITY.

THE SOLDIERS TRIED TO DISLODGE I AM I AM ARE YOU THE SAME
THE ARROW BUT TREY COULDN'T EKALMAL ODHAJAM OPHAJAM OF KJYOR
BUDGE IT. WHOSE HEROISM
r ...ANP you ^
IS TALKEP OF WILL HEAR MORE.
ALL OVER THE
WAIT TILL HE
COUNTRY ? GETS TO SINPH.

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BUT, ODHAJAM, V TO PLEASE MY VISHAL DEV OF PIRANA

SO YOU,
WHY DO YOU WANT COUSIN, VISHAL DEV PATAN ? OH YES,I REMEM¬
TO TAKE THIS BER NOW. SOME PEOPLE TOO, HAVE
WHOM BAMBHANIYA
. REVENGE? . HAD ONCE INSULT- I MET ON THE WAY HEARD OF MY
BROTHER'S
PERFIDY?

ryES,l HEARD WELL, IT’S TRUE. AND

WHV NOT ? BUT WE A PERFECT THAT HE HAS
AGREEMENT VISHAL DEV HELPED ME
MUST SHARE EQUALLY THEN WE BANISHED YOU
VES,FRIEND] IN My DISTRESS.PIRANA
BOTH THE EFFORT MUST NOT v FROM KiyOR- ,
LET'S RESUME v PATAN IS My HOME ,
V ANP THE GAIN. A PELAy.
OilR JOURNEY. NOW.

NAGAR SAMOl AT MIPN/GHT ANP f GOOD | NOW

..APPROACHEP THE POVAL TA
WE MUST TRy
TO LEAP THE
CAMELS AWAY
ON THE my TO NAGAP SAMO! HIS CAMELS ARE HIS ^ WITHOUT |
PRIZED POSSESSIONS. ^ WAKING THE
ODHAJAM! HAVE > LURING THEM AWAy FROM . GUARDS. ^
7U CONSIDERED HOW RIGHT UNDER HIS GUARDS'
>EST WE CAN INSULT NOSES, WOULD BE ENOUGH
BAMBHANIYA? y v TO MAKE HIM FEEL y/
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WILL YOU, MEN, OPE YOU OPEN THE GA1 IN A PANIC, OPHA ’$ MEN TR/EP TO PR/UE
THE GATE ? I WILL ANP WE WILL TAKE THE CAMELS OUT. BUT THEY WOOL DN’T
.LEAP THE CAMELS L THE CAMELS OUT.
_ OUT. ^ "***'
1 /MOVE, V
< you ;
^BRUTE!^ Y WHAT SHALL'
rWE DO? IF V.
THOSE GUARDS |y PATIENCE! \
COME NEARER,! I HAVE AN*
WE ARE LOST! 1 a. ;Jt
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BENT POWN ANP EKAL LIGHTLY PRfCKEP THE BACK OF A SMELLING ITS OWN SLOOP, THE CAMEL
CAMEL IN/TH AN ARROW TO GET A FEW FOLLOWEP EKALMAL . KT —^
AS YOU WISH.I HAC \ ARE MY MEN PROPS OF SLOOP, WHICH HE MOPPEP
SAID WE SHOULD COWARDS? OR ARE UP WITH A CLOTH. HE THEN WRAPPED
SHARE THE WORK THEY TESTING HIS THE CLOTH ROUNP A SPEAR ANP HELP
^ EQUALLY, u k-v STRENGTH ? j IT UP TO THE NOSE OF THE CAMEL.

\THE MEN WHAT A NARROW

THE PEN ANP TRJEP TV LEAP THE CAMELS OUT
BUT THEY ' TO OBEY THE STRANGERS. ESCAPE ! I AM LUCKY
/HURRY! THE \ THE NEXT MOMENT ALL THE TO HAVE FOUND
. ! THEY WON'T J > GUARDS HAVE * CAMELS FOLLOWEP THE/R LEAPER SUCH A BRAVE
U.* W" - ‘
HEARD us! J AND CLEVER .
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THE MEN LED THE CAMELS AWAY. ERAL ODHA WAS FILLED WITH EKAL | TELL BAMBHANIYA NO, OPHA! LET HIM
ODHAUAM TURNED TV DEAL WITH THE < ANGER. AS BAMBHANNA TO GO SACK; OR HIS WIFE comE! WE MUST
APPROACHED HIS RAGE v WILL BECOME A WIPOW. TEACH HIM
MOUNTED. v A LESSON. j
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ERAL MOVED LIRE A WHIRLWIND AND HE EVEN MANAGED TO SHOOT DOWN THE
RILLED EVERY SOLDIER WHO CANOPY OF &AM&HAN! YA ’S CHARIOT.
STOOD IN HIS WAY.

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A3 ODHA’S MEN DEPARTED, THE TWO FRIENDS WAITED FOR THE ENEMY.
BEFORE BAMBHANIYAfS SOLDIERS • •• AND RODE SAFELY BACK TO HIS OWN
COULD PICK UP THE FALLEN
CANOPYERAL SNATCHED IT UP...

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FULL OF ADMIRATION FOR THE DISGUISED OPHAJAM! WHAT ARE YOU THEY REACHED THE SPOT WHERE
WARRIOR, BAM3HAN/YA SHOUTED ACROSS THINKING OF ? YOUR MEN ODHA’S SOLDIERS WERE WAITING•
TO HIM — MUST BE FRETTING ATT
ARE YOU v THE CROSS-ROAP* LET’S
OPHAJAM 0? \ START AT ONCE. f WE HAVE >
. KIYOR f ALREAPY
COMPLETEP
THE TASK OF
SHARING THE
Vv CAMELS, y
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YOUNG MAN, IF YOU JOIN

ODHA NOTICED THAT THE CAMELS WERE ROBUST WH/LE THOSE ON THE
OTHER SIDE LOORFF) RATHFP UJ/
MV ARMY, YOU WILL GET THANK YOU, BUT
A HIGH RANK ANP A I CANNOT LEAVE
HANPSOME SALARY- r THOSE
MY 0PHAJAM. VVJ'
CAMELS ARE K

YOURS, IL THE WORST

, EKALMAL. CAMELS. Jg?

SINCERE ANP BRAVE ) 1 AFTER BAM&HANIYA WHY PIP EKAL TURN

SOLPIERS CAN NEVER j RETREATED — I— POWN THAT MAGNI¬
^ BE BOUGHT. S FICENT OFFER ? WHY MOUNTING HIS HORSE, ODHA RODE THROUGH THE CENTRE OF EACH GROUP OF CAMELS,
~r » IS HE SO LOYAL TO THUS DIVIDING THEM INTO
ME P

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THANK YOU. I HAVE

RECEIVED MY SHARE
IF THE CAMELS
MEANT NOTHING
MSP THEN EKAL CONTROLLED H/S FEELINGS. r WHENEVER ^
PON’T FORGET YOU NEEP ME,
ANP NOW I 6IWE IT TO YOU, WHY PIP ■TALL RIGHT
TO INVITE ME COME TO MOUNT
YOU TAKE SO T! I HOPE WE
TO MY PEAREST WHEN YOU GET KANARA ANP
MUCH TROUBLE? H WILL MEET
FRIENP,OPHA, V MARRIEP! A V CALL ME! A
IT WAS ■k AGAIN.
SIMPLY TO V I'LL INVITE
HUMBLE YOU! BUT
BAMBHANIYA I PON'T KNOW
lWHERE YOU
A LIVE. „

I FEEL I HAVE
LOST SOMETHING
VERY PRECIOUS

QOOPBYE,EKAL! HOW COULPI FORGET

PON*T FORGET YOU, OPHA! I WILL BE
YOUR OPHA. LIKE THE BABIPI BIRP
IN THE PESERT ANP
CALL OUT YOUR ^ | WILL NEVER
NAME ALL MY LIFE! FORGET YOLI,EKAL!
\ VOUR FRIENP6HIP
fj uii
ilViM
yo
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HE CALLED HI5 TAKE ALL THESE WANDER]NO AROUND IN SEARCH OF EKALMAL,

SOLDIERS. CAMELS TO ODHA CLIMBED UP A MOUND*
ISHAL PEV,ANP THERE IS EKAL
TELL HIM BATHING IN THE
I WON’T BE LAKE.OH, NO,
IT'S A WOMAN]

THE HORSE, JAMBUMOR, BORE ODHA

SEVERAL MILES AWAY JO A LAKE
I WAS LOOKING VES| HE HAS GONE
FOR MV FRIENP, TO THE OTHER SIPE
EKALMAL. HAVE OF MOUNT KANARA
YOU SEEN HIM?

rHAT IS EKAL’S HORSE! ANP

HOSE ARE HIS BELONGINGS!
My FRIENP MUST BE NEAR!,
ODHA WENT IN THE DIRECTION SHE HAD INDICATED* EKALMAL! THIS
IS yOUR FRIENP
OPHA! WHERE
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\ THERE WAS NO REPLY. WELL,HE DOESN'T you...vou know my YOU MUST NOT DISCLOSE
ANSWER f A FINE NAME ...AND you LOOK THE SECRET OF MY ORIGIN
FRIEND VOU HAVE, LIKE EKALI WHO ARE TO ANYONE.IF YOU DO,
^ ODH A! A ^ you? ^ I WILL HAVE TO RETURN
TO AMARAVATI AND YOU
\S. WILL LOSE ME. WILL YOU
$_¥£)■( GIVE ME YOUR WORD?
.

YES,
HOTHAL,
I PROMISE

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LOOK CLOSELY AT KJ ARE I WAS CERTAIN YOU BUT I DON’T

MY FACE. DON’T EKALI WOULD COME TO LC UNDERSTAND
YOU KNOW ME? FOR yOUR LONELy v HOW-^
&K. FRIEND!

THEY WERE VERY HAPPY TOGETHER.WITH THEIR TWO SONS,

JAKHARA AND JESSAL, WHO WERE LATER BORN TO THEM, THEY
LIVED A PEACEFUL UFE IN THE FORESTS.

LET ME EXPLAIN YOUR HISTORY MAKES YOU

My1 NAME IS EVEN MORE IRRESISTIBLE,
HOTHAL--^ NOTH A L • I CAN’T LIVE
. WITHOUT VOU. WILL A
^ YOU MARRY ME? A
A WILL,OPHA,
MANY YEARS . ONE DAY
w /I V O 3-Po (A
IF YOU WILL '♦ \ T£
^
PROMISE ME WHAT'S THE HE HAS BEEN
lONE THING/ MATTERjOPHAJAM SITTING LIKE THIS
WHY DO YOU - FOR HOURS, •(\*s
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LOOK SO AADl jm V. MOTHER. A

anp she told him the whole story

BEGINNING WITH HER BANISHMENT ’
BY INDRA-

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DON'T BE ANGRY BUT WILL YOUR
JUST THEM THE LOUD CRM OF PEACOCKS WAS HEARD OF COURSE,HOTHAL
WITH THEM.THEY ARE PEOPLE ALSO
LOVELORN CREATURES THE PEOPLE LOVED
WELCOME YOU? ME AND SANG
' 0 PEACOCKS, WHO BRING BACK
why do you MEMORIES — v OF MY EXPLOITS.
DISTURB My
v PEAR ODHA?

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OPHA, YOU GO / THAT’S A GOOD IDEA. ^

AHEAD NOW. WE’LL I’LL COME BACK SOON. WAIT
WAIT HERE TILL TILL YOU SEE HOW THE
... AND, HOTHAL ,THEY YOU CALL US. PEOPLE GREET ME. YOU’LL
REMIND ME OF MV CHILDHOOD. .HEAR THEIR SHOUTS J
I MISS MV HOMELAND.! WANT N. EVEN HERE!
v TO VISIT KUTCH AGAIN \ A

WHY, OPHA JAM ?

AREN’T YOU HAPPY
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WITH US? BUT WHEN HE ARRIVED IN KUTCH, HE WAS NOT
RECOGNISED. r~*
THEN LET’S THEY STARTED OH THE JOURNEY ATT • ’
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A MAN NEVER FORGET6 '
A* ■»!
HIS HOMELAND. I AM LIKE GO TO KUTCH, ONCE. AS THEY NEARED KUTCH, OCHA'S {<' -3 hi
A SLEEPLESS CHILD, DEAR ODHAUAM, PEUGHT INCREASED. M gi iiiii
HOTHAL, WHO LONGS FO IF IT WILL MAKE Li| ‘ JP ,
IT5 MOTHER'S LAP. YOU HAPPY- > AH! THATS THE -,,
BORDER OF MY HOME¬ MUST
fg WHO’S BEWARE
LAND! DON’T YOU FEEL d THAT BE A NEW
OF
THAT THESE CLOUDS, MAN? COMER!
STRAN¬
BIRDS, ANIMALS AND /- GERS!
TREES ARE WEL¬
COMING US ?

YES,
ODHA

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OF COURSE, BUT WHAT ARE YOU NOT 6AFEP

I REMEMBER YOU. POING HERE IN KUTCH? WHAT 00
I HAVE COMPOSEP .IT’S NOT SAFE.... \ YOU MEAN ?
POEMS ABOUT
YOUR APVEN-

THIS MAN OH, IT'5 THE BARP J

YOU WILL BE My OWN
HAS NAMEP I REMEMBER GIVING
HIM A CALF ONCE. KILLEP IF VOU ARE BROTHER—?
HIS BUFFALO
AFTER ME» THIS BUFFALO MUST FOUNP HERE*yOUR OH{HATEFUL
BE THE SAME, BROTHER ,THE RAJA WORLPI
GROWN UP. ^ FEARS ANP HATES

I WILL LEAVE I AM SORRy TO SEE

yOU GO^PHA^BUT
IMMEPIATELY.
IT’S THE WISE
LET HIM RULE
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W' v THING TO PO. yfU
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AMAR CHITRA KATHA
no,chilpren!that
WHERE TO PI RAN A 1 IS THE HAUNT of A
OPHA RETURNED IMMEDIATELY TO HOTHAL
AND HIS SONS,AND TOLD THEM ABOUT SHALL WE PATAN,TO MY MAN-EATING LION.
GO NOW ? COUSIN, VISHAL
PEV. y

V OH, AT LAST
WE ARE TO
MEET HIM [WE
HAVE HEARP
SO MUCH
kABOUT HIM
1 FROM YOU,
tv FATHER!

INTO THE UUNGLE EQUIPPED WTTH BOWS AND ARROWS

IN P/RANA PATAN, l/ISHAL DEM *^%MANY HAPPY PAYS WERE SPENT AT P/RANA
RECEIVED ODHA WITH AFFECTION. PATAN. ONE DAY

r OPHA! I HAP GIVEN

UP HOPE OF EVER
SEEING YOU. YOU ARE
WELCOME— ANP
UNCLE! WE
k YOUR FAMILY TOO.y
ARE BOREP
PLAYING IN
THE PALACE f yes! a
^ GARPEN. JAKHARA ANP
I WANT TO PLAY
OUTSIPE NEAR
v THAT LAKE. ,
HEARING THEM APPROACH, THE UON
ROARED AND WAS POISED TO jump
when— i-^—wv

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THE soys FELT HUMILIATED AND DREW
THE HEWS SPREAD ROUND THE TOWN LIKE ANP HO POUBT HOW CAN I TELL THE
THEIR SWORDS TO ATTACK THE COURTIERS.
WILDFIRE. THIS INCIDENT CREATED i-r-/ THEIR MOTHER TRUTH ANP LOSE
GOMES FROM FATHER,OUR HONOUR LL THE TRUTH HOTHAL ? BUT IF I PON’T,
A SENSATION IN THE PALACE TOO • I ( IS AT STAKE.IS THE
SOME BRAVE OR ALL OF US MY SONS’ LINEAGE WILL
AT THE ROyAL COURT — xnrrr ANYTHING WRONG
FAMILY TOO. > WILL HAVE TO > BE UNPER A CLOUP. .
BRAVE AFTER ALL WITH OUR MOTHER’S
THEIR FAMILY?
FATHER IS
, OPHA.

SONS! PON’T IT POESN’T MATTER | SPEAK, FATHER, WHERE

INSIST UPON A BAP NAME IS POES OUR MOTHER
KNOWING THE WORSE THAN /- ^ COME FROM ? y
TRUTH OR YOU PEATH. /
WILL REPENT!/

THEY ARE NEPHEWSUTHE JHALAS...? YOU ARE

OF THE GREAT HIPING
^ JHALAS HA,HA» SOMETHING
THERE IS OPHA1 .
. NO SUCH
f FAMILY,
k OPHA.
AN APSARA!
HOTHALIS
li. AH, THAT’S WHY
YOUR SONS ARE
AN APSARA’ V SO BRAVE. .

WHY PON'T
YOU TELL US
k THE TRUTH ?

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