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Enchanted India

1899

The Brahman priests are constantlyegaged in daubing all the statues of these divinities with fresh crimson paint and' the votaries of Siva have a spot of the same colour in the middle of the forehead. [...] In another building is the hall where the dastours say the last prayers over the dead in the presence of the relations ; the body is then stripped in a consecrated.chamber and abandoned to the mysteries of the tower. [...] of a moonless night nine o'clock struck from the great tower of the Law Courts—a pretty set of chimes reminding me of Bruges or Antwerp ; and when the peal had died away a bugle in the sepoys' quarters took up the strain of the chimes only infinitely softer saddened to a minor key and to a slower measure ; while in the distance 31ENCHANTED INDIA an English trumpet loud and clear sounded the rec [...] Bareliefs on the walls represent the beatitudes of Krishna surrounded by women or the vengeance of Vishnu the terrible or the marriage of Siva and Parvati ; while on the flat roof on the panels and architraves—all part of the solid rock—there is an endless procession of Krishnas and Vishnus on a rather smaller scale producing utter weariness of their unvaried attitudes and beatific or infu [...] There is endless chatter a perpetual bickering for places the bewilderment of those who lose themselves shouts from one end of the station Jo the other and in the foreground of the hubbub the incessant cries of the water and sweetmeat sellers.
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Pages
341
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United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145099
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Frontmatter
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At Sea
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Bombay
3-35 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Ellora
36-46 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Nandgaun
46-49 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Baroda
50-54 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Ahmedabad
55-64 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Palitana
64-84 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Bhawnagar
84-91 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Bombay
91-92 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Hyderabad
92-107 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Trichinopoly
107-114 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Madura
114-123 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Tuticorin
123-123 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Colombo
123-125 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Kandy
125-132 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Madras
133-138 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Calcutta
139-144 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Darjeeling
145-154 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Benares
154-180 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Allahabad
181-185 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Lucknow
185-189 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Cawnpore
189-198 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Gwalior
199-204 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Agra
204-212 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Jeypoor
213-216 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Delhi
216-233 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Amritsur
233-234 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Lahore
235-238 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Rawal Pindi
238-240 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Peshawur
241-252 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Murree
253-254 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Garhi
254-255 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Srinagar
256-265 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Rampoor
266-269 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Domel
269-271 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Derwal
271-272 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Kohat
273-274 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Bunnoo
274-286 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Kohat
287-288 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Dehra Doon
289-295 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Hardwar
296-299 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Delhi
299-302 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Bombay
302-305 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
At Sea
305-305 Bojidar Karageorgevitch view
Backmatter
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