kharvani

Updated: June 20, 2025

Censers belched out sweet-smelling, pungent clouds of sandalwood to drown the stench of hot humanity; and the huge graven image of Kharvani serene and smiling and indifferent stared round-eyed from the darkness. Then a priest's voice boomed out in a solemn incantation and the whispering hushed.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East

And here, before them, stood Kharvani to the life! "What of Kharvani?" growled Mahommed Khan. "'A purblind fool, a sot and a Mohammedan," quoted the priest maliciously, "'how many be they, three or one?" The Risaldar's hand went to his scabbard. His sword licked out free and trembled like a tuning-fork. He flicked with his thumbnail at the blade and muttered: "Sharp! Sharp as death itself!"

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East