Enchanted India

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In a long narrow bark, with a pointed white sail--a bunder-boat--we crossed the roads to Elephanta, the isle of sacred temples. Naked men, with no garment but the _langouti_, or...

One temple to Buddha only, on an elongated plan, ends in a vault forming a bulb-shaped cupola supported on massive columns, quite Byzantine in character and wholly unexpected. T...

All round the sanctuary, in niches under a square cloister, are three hundred and fifty alabaster Buddhas, all alike, with the same jewel in their forehead, and on their shoulde...

The fourteen hundred and fifty-two gods of the Jaïn paradise are represented on a sculptured pyramid under a pagoda: little tadpoles of white stone crowded together, two black d...

Mystery broods over this ruined past; grandeur seemed to rise up in the sunset glow. We went down the hill, while behind us a saffron haze veiled the Royal Hill, effaced every d...

One after another I made my salaam to Siva, seated on a peacock; to Ganesa, looking calm and knowing; to Parvati, riding a bull; to Siva again, this time pinning a dragon to the...

In the city, which is swept and cleaned till it is hard to believe oneself among Hindoos, there are six hundred tanks, for the most part stagnant, in which the natives wash them...

Close to a temple, of which the cornice is decorated with female figures holding musical instruments, on a sort of terrace a party of youths were making a distracting din with b...

At the station pilgrims again, bewildered, shouting, rushing about in search of their lost luggage. One group presently emerged from the crowd, led by a man bareheaded, who rang...

The rock is girt with a belt of walls, and in the citadel, besides Mandir, with its outbuildings and tanks, there is a whole town of palaces and temples, which are being demolis...

A prodigious palace has left the skeleton of its walls pierced with large windows, and in the blackened stone, almost at the top of the building, a balcony with a canopy over it...

In this Peshawur the houses are crowded along narrow, crooked alleys, and there is but one rather wider street of shops, which here already have a quite Persian character, havin...

All day long in front of the houses the women were busy clumsily pounding grain with wooden pestles in a hollow made in a log; stamping much too hard with violent energy, they s...

A very good quail that is often the victor, is worth eight or ten rupees. At a funeral a day or two since one of the bearers had his quail in a cage hanging from his girdle--a c...

Bombay, towering above the sea in a golden glory--the tall towers and minarets standing out in sharp outline against the sky, splendid in colour and glow. Far away Malabar Hill...