The misdeeds of men at length made Thakur Baba so angry that he resolved to destroy them all.  Now Thakur Baba is Sing Chando or the Sun, and the Moon is his wife:  and at first there were as many stars by day as there are by night and they were all the children of the Sun and Moon who had divided them between them.  So Sing Chando having resolved to destroy mankind blazed with a fierce heat till man and beast writhed under the torture of it.  But when the Moon looked down and saw their sufferings she was filled with pity and thought how desolate the earth would be without a living being on it.  So she hastened to Sing Chando and prayed him not to desolate the earth; but for all her beseeching the utmost that she could obtain was a promise from her Lord that he would spare one or two human beings to be the seed of a future race.  So Sing Chando chose out a young man and a young woman and bade them go into a cave in a hill side and close the mouth of the cave with a raw hide and when they were safely inside he rained fire from heaven and killed every other living being on the earth.

Five days and five nights it rained fire and the man and woman in the cave sang—­(to the Baha tune)

    “Five days and five nights the fire will rain, ho! 
    Five days and five nights, all night long, ho! 
    Where will you two human beings stay? 
    Where will you two take shelter? 
    There is a hide, a hide: 
    There is also a hill: 
    There is also a cave in the rock! 
    There will we two stay: 
    There will we two take shelter.”

When they came out of the cave the first thing they saw was a cow lying burnt to death with a karke tree fallen on the top of it and near it was lying a buffalo cow burnt to death; at the sight they sang:—­

“The cow is glowing cinders, glowing cinders:  The karke tree is burnt:  The buffalo cow has fallen and has been burnt to ashes, to ashes.”

And as they went on, they sang a similar lament over the remains of each living being as they saw it.

Although these two had been spared to raise up a new race, Ninda Chando, the Moon, feared that the Sun would again get angry with the new race and destroy it; and so she made a plan to trick him.  She covered up all her children with a large basket and smeared her mouth and lips with red and going to Sing Chando told him that she had eaten up every one of her children and proposed that he should now eat up his.  At first Sing Chando declined to believe her but she pointed to her lips and said that they were red with the blood of the children; so Sing Chando was convinced and agreed to eat up his children except two whom he would keep to play with.  So they devoured all but two and the two that were saved are the morning and evening stars.