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Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Sri Lanka India
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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locks, as far out as the eye could reach. But these emperors were seldom at home. Probably, if theirdays of calm and peace, spent here in this Delhi paradise, weresummed up, it would be found that where they spent one herethey spent fifty far away, on long and dangerous campaigns.All the Mogul palaces, though built at fabulous cost, were atbest only brief dreams and hopes. In order to visit the ruins of the elder Delhi, Professor Footeand I escaped from the crowd of vendors in our veranda, took car-riage, and left our lodgings, early one morning, with a goodguide. We left the present city by the Ajmir Gate, and soonfound ourselves in the country, with here and there a moundwhich tells the story of the ruins of the former city, long beforethe Moguls had found a resting-place in India. The country is well cultivated, and is rich and inviting to thetiller of the soil. Every now and then we passed the brokenwall of the garden of some wealthy grandee, whose name is now THE ELDER DELHI. 04u
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forgotten. No doubt, in thefar-gone centuries, this entireroad was a royal way. Thetraces, on either side, are offormer Luxury and com fort.At about two miles fromthe present Delhi, on theleft-hand side, we came toA a i Singhs Observatory.We left our carriage, andcrossed the field to ascend it.Here is an inclined plane ofstone, by winch a stair ledto the great astronomersdial. There are severalother structures which fur-nished facilities for takingastronomical observations.These buildings were con-structed from designs by JaiSingh II.. the learned Rajahof Jaipur, in lr24. He \\;isthe greatest ;i st ron omerwhom India has produced.It was he who prepared the 644 INDIRA. celebrated Tij Muhammed Shahi, or Tables of the Stars, whichnot only corrected all the previous astronomical calculations ofIndia, but formed the basis for exact calculation in subsequenttimes. None of these astronomical buildings are row used.India now gets its astronomers and astronomy from the West.The buildings are o

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