Baloch legend of the origin of the Dodais

To turn now to the Baloch legend of the origin of the Dodais. Doda Somra was

turned out of Thatha by his brethren, and escaped by swimming his mare across
the Indus. He came half frozen in the morning to the hut of a Rind named Salhe,
who took him down from the mare, and, to revive him, put him under the
blankets with his daughter

Mudho. He afterwards married him to Mudho, and, as

the ballad says, ‘For the woman’s sake the man became a Baloch, who had been a
Jatt, a Jaghdal, a nobody; he dwelt at Harrand under the hills, and fate made him
the chief of all.’ His descendants were the Dodai tribe, which took a leading place

among the Baloches in the South Panjab, and his son Gorish gave his name to the

Gorshani, or Gurchani, tribe.