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Updated: May 6, 2025
On a day, in that summer of blessed memory, his mother had almost promised him that, once again she would revisit India if only for the joy of making a pilgrimage with him to Chitor. And here he sat on the summit of Khumba Rána's Tower alone. That was the way of life.... Gradually there stole over him a great weariness of body and spirit; pure reaction from the uplift of his strange adventure.
The walls, ruined in parts, showed ghostly shades of ruins beyond; and soaring high above all, Khumba Rána's nine-storied Tower of Victory lifted a giant finger to the unheeding heavens.
For there, on the small round table stood a model in dull red clay: unmistakably, unbelievably the rock fortress of Chitor: the walls scarped and bastioned; Khumba Rána's tower; and the City itself no ruin, but a miniature presentment of Chitor, as she might have been in her day of ancient glory, as Roy had been dimly aware of her in the course of his own amazing ride.
His grandfather had written of him to the Maharana of Udaipur a cousin in the third degree: and he had leave to go in and out, during his stay, at what hour he pleased. He would remain on the rock till dawn; and from the ninth storey of Khumba Rána's Tower he would see the sun rise over Chitor....
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