In the middle of a large garden outside the town was the visitors' bungalow5, the divan6, where the prince's prime minister received us, and made us welcome on behalf of his master. Hardly were we seated when in came the Rajah, driving two wonderful horses drawing a phaeton. Dressed in a long black coat over very narrow trousers of white muslin, Gohel Sheri Man Sinjhi wore a turban, slightly tilted7 from the left side, and made of hundreds of fine pale green cords rolled round[Pg 65] and round. The Prince of Morvi, and another of the Rajah's cousins, followed in perfectly8 appointed carriages, drawn10 by thoroughbreds. Last of all, carried by an attendant from her landau to the large reception-room where we sat gravely in a circle, came a little princess of seven years old, the Rajah's daughter. Enormous black eyes with dark blue lights, her tawny11 skin a foil to her jewels, and the gold and silver embroidery13 of a little violet velvet14 coat open over a long tunic15 of green silk, trousers of pink satin, and yellow leather slippers16. A plum-coloured cap, worked with gold trefoils, was set very straight on her black hair; she wore, in her ears, slender rings of gold filigree17, and had a nose-stud of a fine pearl set in gold. She stood between her father's knees, squeezing close up to him with downcast eyes, never daring to stir but when we seemed to be paying no heed18 to her.
At the end of a quarter of an hour the princes drove off through a great cloud of white dust sparkling in the sun, and raised by the carriages and the escort of armed sowars.
In the afternoon the Minister came to take us to the palace. The Rajah, with his cousins, met us at the[Pg 66] foot of the grand staircase; a detachment of sowars were on guard. With great ceremony, preceded and followed by an army of officials and attendants, we went up to a room where a silver throne, inlaid with gold, of exquisite19 workmanship, between two armchairs of massive silver, looked quite out of keeping with gilt20 wood chairs with tapestry21 seats, and the everlasting22 Brussels carpet of poor and glaring design. On the various tables was the latest trumpery23 from Oxford24 Street—plush frames and varnished25 wooden screens; a shower of glass lustres hung from the ceiling.
Three musicians in white, with red turbans, squatted26 down on the ground in front of us. One sang to the accompaniment of a viol with three strings27 and nine frets28, and a darboukha; a drawling strain, all on the upper notes, and rising higher to a shrill29 monotonous30 wail31, retarded32, as it were, to a rhythm against the accompaniment; then by degrees more lively, faster and faster, ending with a sudden stop on a word of guttural consonants33. But the man began again; he sang for a long time, varying the tunes34, always returning to the first. But nothing of them remains35 in my mind, not even the rhythm, only a vague recollection, a singular echo, confused but [Pg 67]charming, in spite of the weirdness36 of the too high pitch.
Then two children, their pretty, fresh voices in unison37, sang some womanly songs, languishing38 ballads39, swinging to a very indefinite rhythm, and suggestive of slow dances and waving gauze scarves in flowery gardens under the moonlight.
With tea a servant brought packets of betel in a chased gold box, with a lid imitating a lotus flower. Then, when everybody was served, he carefully replaced the precious object in an embroidered40 silk bag and disappeared.
The little princess had made her way between the seats, close up to us; she was wrapped in dark-coloured gauze, with woven gold borders, so light! scarcely less light than the diaphanous41 material of the dress. And as I admired this wonderful silk, the Rajah had some bayadères' dresses brought out for me to see: twelve or fifteen skirts, one above another, pleated and spangled with gold, yet, hanging to one finger, scarcely the weight of a straw.
In a coach-house, through which we passed on our way to see the prince's favourite horses with the state carriages—quite commonplace and comfortable, and made at Palitana—was a chigram,[Pg 68] off which its silk cover was lifted; it was painted bright red and spangled with twinkling copper42 nails. This carriage, which is hermetically closed when the Ranee goes out in it, was lined with cloth-of-gold patterned with Gohel Sheri's initials within a horseshoe: a little hand-glass on one of the cushions, two boxes of chased silver, the curtains and hangings redolent of otto of roses.
A carriage with four horses, and servants in dark green livery thickly braided with silver, and gold turbans with three raised corners very like the cocked hats of the French Guards, were standing43 in the Court of Honour. The little princess took a seat between her father and me. To drive out she had put on an incredible necklace with bosses of diamonds and heavy emerald pendants. With her talismans44 round her neck in little gold boxes, with this necklace of light, and rings of precious stones in her ears, she looked like a too exquisite idol45, motionless and silent. It was not till we were returning and the falling night hid her glittering jewels that she chirped46 a few words, and consented to give me her hand, and even sang a few crystal notes of a favourite song. A little princess of seven years who can already read and write, sew[Pg 69] and embroider12, sing in time, and dance as lightly, I should fancy, as a butterfly with her tiny feet, that fidget in her gold slippers when she hears the music—though, frightened lest the Rajah should make her dance before me, she denied it altogether—a little princess, an only child, whom her father takes with him everywhere that she may see something of the world before she is eleven years old, for after that she will never leave her mother's zenana but to marry and be shut up in another harem.
On the road the people bowed low as we passed, almost to the earth. The women, in token of respect, turned their backs and crouched48 down.
In the prince's stables were a long row of brood mares and superb stallions; and then a hundred or so of colts were turned out into the yard—mischievous, frisking things, romping49 against each other, suddenly stopping short, and wrapped ere long in white dust, which fell on us, too.
The Prince of Morvi came before sunrise to take us to the temples of Satrunji. On the way we outstripped50 carts packed full of women and children in light shimmering51 muslins. They were all making a pilgrimage to the sacred hill, singing shrill chants in time to the jolting52 of their springless vehicles,[Pg 70] and broken by oaths and imprecations at the stoppages occasioned by our expedition.
The holy hill, bristling53 at top with the conical roofs of the pagodas55, rises isolated56 in the vast stretch of silky grass, enclosed by a distant fringe of pale violet heights. At the foot of the ascent—in some places an incline, and in others a flight of steps going straight up to the temples—bearers were waiting for us, and an armed escort. A mob of pilgrims were shouting at the top of their voices, and did not cease their squabbling till we began the climb in our most uncomfortable palankins, etiquette59 forbidding us, alas60! to get out of them. One of my bearers, almost naked, with a mere61 rag of white cotton stuff round his hips62, had hanging from his left ear a ring with three pearls as large as peas and of luminous63 sheen.
Stations for prayer stand all along the road; little open shrines64, where footprints are worshipped, stamped on flags of white marble, a large footprint surrounded by a dozen of a child's foot.
In front of us were men loaded with bundles or with children; old women gasping66 as they leaned on long staves; chattering67 women with green or pink or white veils, their arms full of sheaves of flowers. By each little temple—between which there are[Pg 71] kiosks, sheltering innumerable grinning idols68—trees grow, and under their shade the pilgrims break the climb with a short rest. In a palankin, carried by two men, a slim woman's figure was borne past, in a pink gauze dress spangled with silver; her feet and hands, beringed with silver and gold, were exquisitely69 delicate. For an instant her veil blew aside, showing her face, rigid70 with horrible white leprosy, only her almond-shaped black eyes—beautiful eyes—were alive with intense brilliancy, full of unfathomable woe71.
In front of a statue of Kali with a hundred arms, surrounded by rough votive offerings carved in wood, most of them representing legs, a man was pouring out rice, and a whole flight of grey leilas—birds like magpies—almost settled on his hands: birds of the temple, so familiar that one even allowed me to catch it, and did not fly away at once when I set it at liberty. There are rows of black Buddhas72, white Buddhas, Sivas painted red—terrible—straddling in fighting attitudes; pilgrims without end bow and pray in front of each idol.
We reached the top of the hill, the sacred enclosure of the Ja?n temples. A stoppage again and a fresh dispute. The priests would not admit within the temples our soldiers, who wore shoes,[Pg 72] belts, and gun-straps made of the skins of dead beasts. The sowars wanted to go on, declaring that they would take no orders from "such men, priests with dyed beards, dressed in red flannel74, with their turbans undone75 and heated with rage."
The heavy door, plated with iron, was shut. Hubbub76, shouts, thumps77 on the wood with gun-stocks—nothing stirred, no reply.
I proposed to go in without the soldiers. Impossible, it was not etiquette! I was the Rajah's guest. The Prince of Morvi and I could not mingle78 with the crowd, our escort was necessary to isolate57 us. Well, then, the soldiers must take off their shoes, and leave their belts and guns at the door! Again impossible. Where would the prestige of the uniform be?
My friend T——, long a resident in India, and quite unmoved by the habitual79 turmoil80 of the native Hindoos, finally settled the difficulty between the cabbage of the priests and the soldiers' goat; the men would put on hemp-shoes, and we also, over our leather boots; as to the belt and gun-slings, as they only touched the soldiers themselves, they could defile81 nothing and might be allowed to pass.
So at last the door was opened.
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On the very summit of the hill, all over the ravine which divided it from another, and which has been filled up at an enormous cost, and then on the top of that other hill beyond, temples are piled up, shining against the too-blue sky, with pointed9 roofs of stone, scorched by the sun or stained by the rain, and patterned with pale-hued lichens83. Above each a spear stands up, impaling84 a metal ball. In infinite variety, differing in materials, style, and proportions, some quite small, as if they had sprouted85 round the base of others that are gigantic, there are here five thousand temples built by the faithful, who are incessantly86 erecting88 more, devoting great fortunes to the vanity of leaving a chapel89 that bears their name.
Spread before us in the iridescent90 atmosphere, the view extends over Palitana under its blue veil of light smoke, over the verdant91 plain chequered with plots of brown earth, and the winding92 ribbon of the Satrunji, a river as sacred to the Ja?ns as the Ganges is to the Brahmins. And far away, vague in the distance, a light shimmering more brightly where all is bright, lies the luminous breadth of the sea.
Just within the enclosure to our right is a tomb. A Mohammedan who came forth93 to take the sacred[Pg 74] hill, the brother of an emperor of Delhi, fell dead at the foot of a Ja?n idol, which he had dared to touch with his staff. How the legend developed it is impossible to say; but this warrior94, buried on the spot where he was stricken down by the divinity, has the miraculous95 power of curing barrenness in the women who invoke96 him. Votive offerings, little cradles daubed with yellow and red, are heaped on the pavement and hang to the railing.
A wide avenue paved with marble, rising in broad steps, crosses the hilltop between temples on either side, intersecting narrower alleys97, likewise bordered with pagodas crowded together in the inextricable mazes98 of a labyrinth99, whence our guides were frequently required to lead us out—temples crowned with a cupola or a cone100, a bristling throng101 of little extinguishers all covered with carving102. The same subjects and patterns are repeated to infinity103, even in the darkest nooks: figures of gods, of gigantic beasts rearing or galloping104, of monstrous105 horses and elephants, of tiny birds sheltering the slumbers106 of the gods under their outspread wings.
On the stone ceiling of almost every temple four large women's faces and certain crouching107[Pg 75] gnomes108 appear in fresh red paint. In the very dim twilight109 that comes in through the narrow windows hung with blue gauze, the idols are visible behind lattices: white Buddhas blazing with sparkling gems110 that hang on their wrists and ankles, or form a perfect breastplate; and every one, without exception, has an enormous glittering imitation diamond in his forehead.
In the shrine65 of Chaumuc, the god of many faces, the four masks grin down from the sides of a square pillar of white stucco. The walls, vault111, and pavement of this temple are all red, with borders of green and yellow; the colours scream in contrast to the whiteness of the images, with their staring eyes made of crystal balls that look like spectacles.
Another sanctuary112 holds an idol made of seven metals mingled113 to a pale golden hue82. The statue is loaded with jewellery of silver and precious stones. On its head is a fan-shaped diadem114 starred with rubies115. The walls and columns, of a dull purple, are decorated with gaudy116 mosaic117 of scraps118 of looking-glass set in brass119 along the lines of the mouldings.
Pilgrims crowd the courts and the temples. All, when they speak, hold a hand or a corner of their[Pg 76] robe before their lips to avoid swallowing the tiniest insect, which would avert120 the favour of the gods. They bring offerings of rice or gram in little bags of faded silk, pale pink, or green, and gold thread; the poorest have bags of red and white beads121.
A very large temple, with its walls pierced in Persian patterns, contains fifty-two chapels122 behind pointed arches. In each chapel are four gods, all alike, of white plaster, all decked with the same jewels. In an angle of the vaulting123 a female figure, carved in the stone and wearing a tiara, holds an infant in her arms; this statue, with its long face and the rigid folds of the drapery, might have been transferred here from a gothic building.
A bulbul, flying out of a temple where it had been picking up the offered rice, perched on a pomegranate tree and began to sing, at first a little timid chirp47, and then a ripple124 of song, soon drowned by the shrieks125 of parrots, which came down on the tree and drove out the little red-breasted chorister.
At the very top of the incline, the enclosing wall, black with age but bright with yellow velvet moss126, rises precipitously above the plain, and three light balconies, with columns as slight as flower-stems,[Pg 77] crowned with pointed roofs recurved at the angles, overhang the abyss.
More and yet more temples, seen through the mist of weariness, the nightmare of grimacing127 idols, the heavy vapour of the incense128 burnt in every chapel, and of the flowers brought by the pilgrims. A dark red pagoda54, lighted by a mysterious blue gleam falling intermittently129 from somewhere in the roof, enshrined a white marble god, whose glittering gems seemed to rise and fall behind the cloud of perfume that floated about him.
In another place two elephants of bright indigo130, and some musicians all green, with red parrots on their wrists, are painted on the walls of a hall where the prayer-bell is incessantly tolled131. Here many worshippers were prostrate132. An idol, flanked by two statues on guard in stiff hieratic attitudes, was almost hidden under gold chains and a crown of inordinate133 splendour, while a priest, wearing only a loin-cloth, stood calmly sluicing134 the white plaster and putting the god through his toilet, sometimes splashing the congregation.
There is a very small and simple niche135 against the wall of a larger building, and in this, without even a railing to protect it, stands the image of a goddess robed in silk embroidered in gold; and in[Pg 78] such another little recess136, not far away, is the sister of this divinity, also dressed in magnificent stuffs, renewed by the faithful at each high festival.
In a consecrated137 hall we came to a plaster image of a camel modelled over stone. To prove that you are without sin you must be able to pass under the beast, or at least between the front legs and the girth of the belly138 without touching139 any part; and so very narrow is this little gateway140 of Ja?n virtue141 that, to preserve my character in the presence of my escort, I did not attempt it.
Another temple—carved and pierced, and loaded and overloaded142 with ornament143. In the crypt was a bas-relief representing the ceremony of marriage: the procession, the couple in front of the altar, the relations sitting round, all alike in the same crouching attitude, like toys set out by a little child. Then the model of a very famous temple elsewhere in India: columns, gateways144, statues of the gods, all reproduced with microscopic145 exactitude down to the minutest details; and surrounding this tiny model a bas-relief of the most bewildering perspective—a plan of Satrunji with its fifty-two principal temples, its trees and sacred tanks; and as a pendant to this representation, a circular carving giving a bird's-eye view of the crowd, the same little doll-like figures[Pg 79] repeated again and again, coming to worship with arms and legs spread out, grovelling146, as if they were swimming.
A large open niche, supported on massive columns and enclosed by a carved parapet, built by some king with a long, high-sounding name, looks as if it were made of gold; the stone is yellow and flooded with sunshine, which, where the hard material is not too thick, shines through and makes it seem transparent147, with the peculiar148 vibrant149 glow of molten metal. The shadows, blue by contrast, are as soft as velvet; twinkling sparks are lighted up in the angles of the architrave, by the reflected rays, like stars in the stone itself.
On a square, shaded by an awning150, with porticoes151 all round, coolies in white dresses sat on the ground making up little bunches of flowers, the blossoms without stems tied close to a pliant152 cane153 for garlands—jasmine, roses, chrysanthemums154, and sweet basil—for in India, as in Byzantium of old, basil is the flower of kings and gods. The basil's fresh scent58 overpowered the smell of sandal-wood and incense which had gradually soaked into me in the presence of the idols, and cleared the atmosphere delightfully155. A woman rolled up in pale-tinted muslins under the warm halo of light falling through the[Pg 80] awning, was helping156 one of the florists157. She supported on her arm a long garland of jasmine alternating with balls of roses. Almost motionless, she alone, in the midst of the idols, at all reminded me of a goddess.
In the chief temple, whose walls were painted all over, a huge Buddha73 of gold and silver was hidden under wreaths of flowers round his neck, and a diadem of flowers on his brow, where blazed a luminous diamond; and flowers were arranged in a canopy158 over his head, and were strewn like a carpet on the steps of the shrine.
The fourteen hundred and fifty-two gods of the Ja?n paradise are represented on a sculptured pyramid under a pagoda: little tadpoles159 of white stone crowded together, two black dots showing for eyes in the middle of the round featureless faces; on one side a more important god, sitting alone, has a rather less elementary countenance160.
A very solid structure, with walls like a fortress161, contains the treasury162 of the sacred mount. Five guards in turn came to open as many padlocks, and at last the ponderous163 door turned slowly on its hinges. A car, an elephant, and a vehicle to which are harnessed two prancing164 horses, are all brought out to convey the idols when they go forth in a[Pg 81] procession. The animals are chased with almost artistic165 skill. The harness, starry166 with precious stones, all takes to pieces.
Near one pagoda, where the highly venerated167 footprints of Adishwara are preserved, a tree—a gran tree—was cut down to the root, and, as the legend tells, grew again in a single night as large as it now is; and it would grow again if it were again felled, to screen with its shade the holy spot touched by the god.
Beyond the outermost168 wall, when we had at last left it behind us, at the foot of the pile of terra-cotta-coloured bricks, were vast tanks of stagnant169 water, said to be inexhaustible. Near them was a shrine to Siva, with two small idols hung with yellow flowers, where an old Hindoo was praying devoutly170; and then through a park of giant trees, and shrubs171 bright with strange blossoms, over which the parrots flew screaming.
As soon as we returned to Palitana the Rajah sent to inquire after me, and to present me with round boxes of fruit preserved in Cashmere, oval green grapes, each wrapped separately in cotton and smelling of honey.
One of my sepoys was lying asleep in the [Pg 82]verandah of the bungalow. A variety of articles hung from his belt: an antelope's horn made into a powder-flask, several tassels172 of red and green silk threaded in a row, a triple chain of copper serving to hang up lamps in front of the sacred images, a small damascened knife in a crimson173 velvet sheath, and a tiny yellow earthenware174 bottle containing kohl.
In the courtyard a tall and gaudy cock was keeping the crows in order, driving them relentlessly175 away from the kitchen precincts. On the roof of the servants' quarters, always in the same spot, perched a kite, ready to pounce176 as soon as anything was thrown out. The doves, the house-pigeons, the fowls177 fled at once and squatted in corners; but the cock stood his ground, his feathers all on end, his crest178 erect87, chuckling179 with rage and stalking round the yard within ten paces of the bird of prey180.
In the afternoon the Rajah wore a pale green dress embroidered with gold and gems, and sparkling with stones, and a wide rose-coloured sash fringed with pearls. He wore no jewels but priceless diamond buckles181 in his shoes. As I had lingered long in the morning at a jeweller's shop, the prince wished to show me his possessions. Servants, as solemn as gaolers, brought in many trays covered[Pg 83] with enormous emeralds cut into beads and strung on white cords, necklaces of pear-shaped pearls threaded on almost invisible silk. And then, from among the goldsmith's work, modelled into impossible flowers and chimeras182 twisted to make heavy anklets, from among coat-buttons, rings and sword-guards sparkling with diamonds, the Rajah took up a costly183 snuff-box and begged me keep it as a remembrance.
The elephant of ceremony, covered with a velvet cloth embroidered with gold, on which was placed a massive silver howdah edged with gold, was in waiting to take me for a ride. Round the beast's neck hung a huge necklace of balls as large as apples and long pendants from his ears, all of silver, tinkling184 as he moved and glittering in the sun. The mahout rested a ladder against the elephant's head for me to mount by, and we set out, following the Rajah and escorted by sowars, to the very modern tennis club of Palitana.
The game had begun. The prince's cousins, dressed in light white muslin, seemed to fly as they ran after the ball in the fluttering of the diaphanous stuff.
The guards' band played Indian tunes, to a measure I could not yet catch, and Strauss' waltzes very oddly accented. Suddenly the princess appeared,[Pg 84] in soft rose-pink lightly touched with blue. She wore a pearl necklace with slides of ruby185 and emerald, shoes thickly worked with gold, and a broad pink sash somewhat darker in colour than her silver-striped tunic.
Evening fell, purple and orange tinging186 the princes' muslins to delicate hues187; then very quickly all was dark. Deep melancholy188 came over us; we all sat without speaking a word, while from afar came the clatter189 of tom-toms from the temple, sometimes drowning the music, which droned on in a minor190 key, a maundering strain without a close but constantly repeating itself.
The Rajah, a prisoner in his little state, a ruler only in name and deposed191 from his power, as I rose to take my leave, cast a glance of deep melancholy towards a last golden beam that quivered on the sacred hill, and seemed to awake from a dream.
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prancing
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crest
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prey
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hues
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