[1] The narrative of Pabuji is sung by the Bhopa poet-singers of Nayak community is based according to the tradition on a text, the Pabuprakasa.

When he died, both his sons set up court in their village of Kolu; but Pabuji was a god incarnate, born not from Dhandal's wife but from a celestial nymph who had promised him that when he was twelve years old she would return to him in the form of a mare for him to ride.

[3] Then he set off on his exploits: he overthrew Mirza Khan, the cow-killing king of Patan, and then went to bathe in the holy lake of Pushkar to cleanse himself of the sin of bloodshed.

At his instigation, Gogaji turned himself into a venomous snake and concealed himself in the garden; and when Kelam came there to swing he bit her on the little finger.

[4] During the wedding-ceremony various people gave costly presents to Kelam; when his turn came, Pabuji said, "I shall plunder she-camels from Ravana the demon king of Lanka to give you.

[5] On their way to give the captured she-camels to Kelam they had to pass through Umarkot in Sindh, and here the Sodhi princess Phulvanti saw Pabuji and fell in love with him.

Pabuji continued on his way: he triumphed in an encounter with Devnarayan, and was soon able to hand over the she-camels to a delighted Kelam and return home to Kolu.

They reached Umarkot, and the preparations for the wedding went ahead smoothly; but before the ceremony itself was even complete Deval arrived in the form of a bird to say that Khinchi had stolen her cattle.

[6] Pabuji insisted on abandoning the wedding in order to ride in pursuit: he severed the bridal knot with his sword, and gave his bride a parrot which would tell her what became of him.

He rode back to Kolu with his men, and after some slight delay set out in pursuit of the Khinchis, leaving only Dhebo behind asleep.

Deval woke Dhebo up and sent him out too, and he soon overtook Pabuji, for when his horse tired from endless galloping, he picked it up and put it under his arm and ran on.

[7] Pabuji and his remaining men now returned the cattle to Deval, but she kept making objections: first she said her favourite bull-calf was missing—but it was discovered inside Dhebo's opium-box, where he had put it as a joke; then she complained that her cattle were thirsty and told Pabuji to water them—but when he tried to do so he found that all the water in the well had been swallowed on Deval's instructions by a genie named Susiyo Pir.

[8] Buro's wife had a terrible dream in which she saw the massacre of the Rathores; and when she awoke the news was confirmed by the camel-rider Harmal Dewasi, who brought her the turban of her dead husband.