The romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir - Khamkoo

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chambers in a line from side to side, the central
oblong chamber has a ceiling painted in panels,
and the side chambers have coloured glass windows.
There are porticoes or verandas in front and back,
supported by black marble pillars
with carved
bases and bracket capitals, four simple ones in
centre and double pillars at the corners.
The ceilings
of the verandas are painted
in panels,
upper half of the wall is also painted.
the
and the
Among the
decorations are barasingh heads holding a lamp on
each tine.
Behind the baradari is
a small pavilion which is
said
to have been the zenana, and there is a larger
one on either side ;
while there are buildings at the
sides of the garden in a line with each of the pair
of detached pavilions, so that, not counting the
gate lodges, there are thirteen buildings in the
grounds. It was snowing when we left Shalimar
Bagh, and we paddled across the lake in a snowstorm
to the Nasim Bagh or " Garden of Zephyrs,"
begun
in Akbar's time and now famous for its
grove of chenars. The
chenar, or boin, specimens
of which measure over sixty feet around the
trunk, is the plane-tree, which is said to have been
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