The story revolves around a prince who loses a series of gambling bets to a Dom, a member of a lower caste. After losing his kingdom, the prince risks his sister in the final game. The Dom agrees to take the prince's sister instead of the kingdom, prompting the prince to mislead the Dom by telling him that she loves flowers and will be distracted by a nearby pond.

While her brother is away, the prince's sister goes to the pond to search for lotus flowers but ultimately struggles to find any. The Dom seizes the opportunity to capture her when she is distracted. Eventually, the prince returns, learns of his sister's plight, and a search ensues. The king arrives, leading to the pond drying up, revealing both the sister and the Dom. In the end, the Dom is punished and buried in the pond, while the prince's sister goes back to her husband, where she lives contentedly. The story explores themes of fate, deception, social hierarchy, and justice.

एगो राजकुमार के डोम से बड़ी इयारी हल। दूनो जुआ खेलऽ हलन। एक दफे राजकुमार डोम के हाथे सब कुछ हार गेलन। राज-पाट हारला के बाद अप्पन बहिन के भी दाव पर रख देलन, आउ ओकरो हार गेलन। डोम राजपाट न लेके उनकर बहिन के मांगलक, तऽ ऊ कहलक कि 'हम्मर बहिन फूल के बड़ी सौखीन हे। से तू जा के पोखरा में बइठ के फूल देखइहें! बहिन फूल लेवे जायत तो तू पकड़ लिहें!'

एकरा बाद राजा अप्पन माय से कहलक कि कल हम अपने से हर जोते जायम। ऊ कहलन कि राजा के बेटा होके तू हर जोते कइसे जयबें? बाकि राजकुमार नऽ मानलन, आउ हर-बैल लेके खेत पर चल गेलन। जब पानी पीये के बेरा भेल, तब माय अप्पन बेटी दीहिलो के नस्ता लेके भेजलक। दीहिलो भाई के नस्ता करावइत हल, तो ओकरा पोखरा में कमल के फूल लौकल, से ऊ भाई से पूछ के फूल ला पोखरा में हेल गेल। भर घुठ्ठी पानी में गेला पर फूल न मिलल, तो दीहिलो गीत गयलक-

भर घुट्ठी पानी में अइली हो भइया, तइयो न मिलल कमल केरा फूल!

राजकुमार कहलन कि -आउ ओते जो बहिनी, आउ ओते जो! बहिन कमर भर पानी में, फिन छाती भर पानी, आउ फिन मांगभर पानी में फूल ला गेल बाकि फूल नऽ पकड़ायल। बहिन कहलक -

माँग भर पानी में अइली हो भइया तइयो न मिलल कमल केरा फूल!

राजकुमार कहलन- आउ ओते जो बहिनी! आउ ओते जो!

माँग से सेनूर घोअयल हो भइयाए तइयो न मिलल कमल केरा फूल।

उतने में पानी में बइठल डोम, राजकुमार के बहिन के लेके बइठ गेल। जब राजकुमार हर-बैल लेके घरे अयलन, तो माय, दीहिलो बेटी ला पूछलन तो ऊ बता देलन कि माँई, बुझी भुला गेल! सगरो खोजाय लगल। तब दीहिलो के पोसल सुग्गा ओही पोखरा के पेड़ पर जाके अपन दुःख गावे लगल-

केने हहीं, केने गेली हारिल गे दीहिलो चेरिया मारत मूसराधार।

सुनके पोखरा में से दीहिलो बोलल- का कहीं, का करीं हारिल रे सुगना भइया हारल डोम जीतल।

ओही घड़ी दीहिलो के ससुरार से नेयार आवइत हल। ई सब सुनके ऊ उलटे गोड़ी लौट गेल, आउ राजा के सब खिस्सा सुनौलक। राजा नोकर-चाकर सब के लेके पोखरा पर आ गेलन, आउ पोखरा उविछाय लगल। पोखरा सूख गेल, तो ओकरे में से राजा के लड़की दीहिलो, आउ डोम निकलल। फिन ओही पोखरा में डोम के गाड़ देल गेल, आउ लड़की अप्पन बिआही मरद के साथ ससुरार चल गेल। उहाँ जाके अपन पति के साथ बढ़िया से राज-पाट करे लगल।

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Once a prince had a big feud with a Dom (a member of a lower caste). They both were gamblers. One day, the prince lost everything to the Dom. After losing the kingdom, he even put his sister on the line, and he lost her too. When the Dom demanded the prince’s sister instead of the kingdom, he said, "My sister is very fond of flowers. Just go and sit by the pond and watch the flowers! If she goes to pick flowers, then you can catch her!"

After this, the king asked his mother if he would win in the next game. She replied, "How can you, being the king's son, lose?" But the prince did not listen and took the oxen and went to the field. When it was time to drink water, the mother sent her daughter to bring snacks. The sister was preparing food for her brother when she saw the lotus flowers in the pond; she asked him about the flowers and went to the pond to get them. She went into the water, but after some time, she could not find any flowers, so she sang a song:

"Though I've come with a belly full of water, Brother,
Still, I could not find the lotus flower!"

The prince then called out to his sister, "Come here, sister! Come here!" The sister went waist-deep into the water, then found herself chest-deep, and finally knee-deep, still trying to catch the flowers, but she couldn’t grasp any. She said:

“Though I’ve come with my hands outstretched, Brother
Still, I could not find the lotus flower!”

Just then, sitting in the water, the Dom caught the prince's sister. When the prince returned home with the oxen, his mother asked his sister where she was. She replied that she had forgotten the way! A search began for her. Then the sister’s parrot flew to the tree by the pond and started to lament her misfortune:

“Where did she go, where did she go, the sister who lost?
Beating my chest in sorrow!”

Hearing this, the sister spoke from the water:

“What’s wrong, what has happened, dear parrot?
My brother lost, the Dom won!”

At that moment, the sister’s father-in-law was coming from the in-laws’ house. Hearing all this, he turned back and reported everything to the king. The king, along with his servants and attendants, went to the pond and began searching it. When the pond dried up, the king's daughter, the sister, and the Dom emerged. Then the Dom was buried in that same pond, and the sister went back to her husband at her in-laws’ house. There, she began to rule happily with her husband.