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Updated: June 13, 2025
The first was carried with the shock; at eight in the evening he was master of the second; the third fell an hour later; the Moghuls' resistance was completely overpowered, and their leader was chased into the city of Jaipur.
The dear old place is mostly empty, these days with Tiny married and Dad's Air Force job pinning him to Town. So as I remarked before !" "You'll hang on out here for the present? Thank God for that much." Desmond's pious gratitude was so fervent that they both burst out laughing; and their laughter cleared the air of ghosts. "Jaipur it is, I suppose, as planned. Thea will be overjoyed.
When the ancient city of Ambér was abandoned, principally on account of its scanty water-supply, Jaipur was built upon a regular and prearranged plan, having a great wide street down the centre, crossed by two large thoroughfares at right angles, thus dividing the town into six rectangular blocks. We drove into the city in the afternoon, and were much impressed by its airiness and cleanliness.
Whether Jaipur's precisely a health resort ?" "I'm not after health resorts. I'm after knowledge and a few other things. Not Jaipur first, anyway. The moment I get the official order of the boot I'm for Chitor." "Chitor?" Faint incredulity lurked in Desmond's tone. "Yes the casket that enshrines the soul of a race; buried in the wilds of Rajasthán. Ever heard tell of it, you arrant Punjabi?
As Roy knew precisely how much or rather, how little Arúna liked working in the wards, he suffered a pang at the pathos of her innocent guile. And if Dyán had his own suspicions, he kept them to himself. He also kept to himself the vitriolic outpouring which he had duly found awaiting him at Jaipur.
And all the others seemed farther still. They wrote regularly, affectionately. Yet their letters especially his father's seemed to tell precious little of the things he really wanted to know. Perhaps his own had been more reserved than he realised. There had been so much at Jaipur and Delhi that he could not very well enlarge upon.
Sights and sounds and smells the pungent mingling of spices and dust and animals assailed his senses with a vague yet poignant familiarity: fruit and corn-shops with their pyramids of yellow and red and ochre, and the fat brown bunnia in the midst; shops bright with brass-work and Jaipur enamel; lattice windows, low-browed arches, glimpses into shadowed courts; flitting figures of veiled women; humbler women, unveiled, winnowing grain, or crowned with baskets of sacred cow-dung, stepping like queens....
But he did not choose to embroil himself, or his people, on account of anything so contemptible as the creature that was writhing and scratching in his grasp. He simply wanted to secure him and hand him over to the Jaipur authorities, who had several scores up against him. But Chandranath, though not skilled, had the ready cunning of the lesser breeds.
He was sitting at it now; flinging down a dramatic episode, roughly, rapidly, as it came. The polished surface was strewn with an untidy array of papers; the only ornaments a bit of old brass-work and two ivory elephants; a photograph of his father and a large one of his mother taken from the portrait at Jaipur. The table was set almost at right angles to his open door, and the chick rolled up.
As part of the project, its appendix, the Harivansa was also summarized and a separate volume with fourteen illustrations all concerned with Krishna is part of the great version now at Jaipur. In these illustrations, it is Krishna the prince who is chiefly shown, all the pictures illustrating his career after he has left the cowherds.
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