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 SAVINDROOG; 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE aUEEN OP THE JUNGLE. 
 
 BY 
 
 CAPTAIN RAFTER, 
 
 LATE OF THE 95tH REGIMENT. 
 
 " . . . . Juggling fiends 
 
 That palter with us in a double sense ; 
 
 That keep the word of promise to our ear, 
 
 And break it to our hope." 
 
 Shakspeaue. 
 
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 PllEEACE. 
 
 The history of no other part of the world offers so 
 many incidents of a powerfully romantic character as 
 that of India, and the adjacent countries to the west- 
 ward of the Indus : indeed, the annals of that inter- 
 esting region may be said to constitute one continued 
 romance, from the earliest times to the period when 
 England took charge of its destinies, and reduced the 
 conflicting elements of its government and people 
 into something like uniformity and good order. 
 
 No other section of the earth, perhaps, can offer in 
 such endless variety those physical beauties that meet 
 the eye of the Eastern traveller : nor can any thing 
 be more strikingly curious than the manners, customs, 
 religions, and literature of the many millions who 
 inhabit that important portion of the globe ; where 
 the mightiest monarchs of the world once bore sway, 
 and the arts and sciences flourished, while Enghmd, 
 which now rules supreme over its boundless terri- 
 tories, was in a state of comparative ignorance and 
 barbarism.
 
 Vlll PREFACE. 
 
 The wild and picturesque scenery of the East — 
 its towering mountains and extensive forests — its 
 lakes, rivers, and waterfalls — its innumerable forti- 
 fications and inaccessible Droogs*, — its lofty and 
 venerable pagodas, and the magnificent palaces, 
 mosques, and mausoleums which still remain, sad 
 vestiges of the ruined pride, wealth, and grandeur of 
 its ancient capitals, — offer to the traveller, in their 
 present state, the most interesting objects of obser- 
 vation : while the air of melancholy and decay which 
 is spread around, forces the mind back from the con- 
 templation of the scene before it to the period when 
 the country acknowledged the sway of its native 
 princes ; and the mild and peaceful religion of Brahma 
 was placed in striking juxtaposition with the prose- 
 lyting and sanguinary tenets of Mahommedism. 
 
 That such materials have not been more frequently 
 laid under contribution by the novelist is a mystery 
 which can, perhaps, only be explained by the indo- 
 lence, and indifterence to all but the enjoyment of the 
 passing hour, into which Europeans insensibly fill 
 on arriving in India ; for, excepting the productions 
 of two or three writers, whose pens have been suc- 
 cessfully employed in the composition of Oriental 
 romance, this inexhaustible mine of instruction and 
 amusement is absolutely untouched. 
 
 Of these, Moore's " Lalla Rookh " is exquisite, 
 * Mountain fortresses.
 
 PREFACE. IX 
 
 as far as it goes ; which is, however, only to the 
 threshold. Southey's " Curse of Kehama," beautiful 
 thouo-h it be, affects too much the time-worn ma- 
 chinery of celestial and infernal beings ; and, apart 
 from its great poetical merits, has no value whatever 
 as a full and faithful picture of the country and its 
 inhabitants. The graphic genius of James Balllie 
 Fraser has found such ample scope in depicting the 
 wild tribes to the westward of the Indus, that he 
 has scarcely even touched upon India itself; while 
 Morier, that master of the ridiculous, has confined 
 himself exclusively to Persia and Turkey. 
 
 Of the very few other adventurers in the field of 
 Oriental fiction it may be sufficient to say that, in 
 spite of occasional talent, their attempts to incorporate 
 the deep interest of Asiatic romance with the common- 
 place frivolity of the mere English novel have only 
 produced an incongruous medley ; wdiich, like the 
 mixture of oil paintings and water-colour drawings 
 in an exhibition, must inevitably result in failure : 
 more especially when it displays the jaundiced 
 colouring of European prejudices, or the still more 
 objectionable ignorance of correct costume and dis- 
 tinctive character. 
 
 In the hope, therefore, of filling a hiatus in litera- 
 ture, on ground that has hitherto been scarcely 
 trodden, the Author of " Savindroog " has ventured 
 to make his appearance in the world of letters ; and
 
 X PREFACE. 
 
 to offer to tlie public a romance in which, under the 
 veil of fiction, his object has been to diffuse a more 
 general and agreeable acquaintance with Indian 
 History than can be obtained even by a perusal of 
 the voluminous works connected therewith ; and to 
 delineate what he honestly believes, from much 
 reading and long observation, to be a true and faith- 
 ful picture of the manners of the East. 
 
 Should the present sj^ecimen of " The Romance 
 OF Oriental History " (a crude sketch of which 
 first appeared in the pages of " The Metropolitan ") 
 be favourably received by his readers, the Author 
 hopes, before long, to present them with another from 
 the same fertile source ; for his subjects are so 
 abundant that his only difficulty will lie in the 
 choice. But though he entertains a well-grounded 
 confidence in the intrinsic value of his materials, his 
 ability to "turn them into shape, and give to his 
 airy nothings a local habitation and a name," can 
 only be ascertained by the verdict of the Public ; 
 and to this test, with mingled hope and diffidence, 
 he now submits his humble labours. 
 
 London, October, 1847.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 THE FIRST VOLUME. 
 
 Page 
 
 Chap. I. The Duriiumsalla - _ - - 1 
 
 II. The Souwarrie - - - - - 12 
 
 III. Ak Aboriginal Race - - - - 23 
 
 IV. The- Jungle- Wallah - - - - 41 
 V. The Golden Moorut - - - - 54 
 
 VI. The Bheel's Cowrie - - - -66 
 
 VII. The Jungle Chief - - - - 78 
 
 VIII. The Charun 90 
 
 IX. The Battle - - - - - 1 05 
 
 X. The Pillars of Victory - - - 114 
 
 XI. The Jungle Durbar, - - - - 133 
 
 XII. The Junnum-Pootee . > - - 148 
 
 XIII. The Conspirators - - - -159 
 
 XIV. The Juggler - - - - - 172 
 XV. The Fair Cashmerian - - - -189 
 
 XVI. The Royal Nautch - - - - 201 
 
 XVII. The Double Plotters - - - - 224 
 
 XVIII. The Royal Suitors - - - - 235 
 
 XIX. The Feast of Cama Deo - - - 252 
 
 XX. The Pilgrims of the Ganges , - - 264 
 
 XXI. The Garden of Roses - - - - 274 
 
 XXII. The Marriage of the Cauvery - - - 286 
 
 XXIII. The Sentinel - - - - - 300 
 
 XXIV. The Serenade - - - - - 312
 
 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE DUPwRUMSALLA. 
 
 It was verging towards noon in the jungle, and the 
 orb of day was holding its brilliant course through 
 the heavens, shining with an intensity unknown 
 except within the tropics. Limpid streams w6re 
 sparkling down the rugged sides of the wood-covered 
 hills, flinging their light and silvery spray from rock 
 to rock, over which the graceful bamboo spread its 
 feathery branches; while many-coloured flowers 
 crowned the overhanging crags, waving, like the 
 banners of elfin warriors, in the sluggish air. 
 
 The cocil, or nightingale of Hindoostan, was nest- 
 ling among the leafy bowers of the mango tree ; and, 
 while draining its rich nectarious juice, poured forth 
 in hurried strains, as if inebriated, her soul- entrancing 
 melody. The dove had taken shelter in a thicket of 
 odoriferous shrubs, and was faintly cooing to his 
 companion. The vulture was pluming his haggard 
 
 VOL. I. B
 
 2 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 wings, by the margin of a lake profusely overspread 
 with the lotus. Overcome by the noon-day heat, 
 the hawk had ceased to persecute the timid hill 
 chicore * ; and the crane, exhausted by the meridian 
 sun, stood idly by the plashy rill, his watchful eye 
 half closed in sleep, and no longer searching out his 
 finny prey. Even the fatal naga\, yielding to the 
 sleepy influence of the hour, folded his terrific crest 
 in unwilling truce ; while the drowsy bee, couching 
 in the hollow petals of the lotus, was humming 
 himself to his mid-day repose. 
 
 A general silence reigned in the jungle, except 
 where on a verdant mound that sloped upwards from 
 the crystal bosom of a tank, an extensive and 
 regular pile of building rose in stately grandeur, 
 adorned with a variety of grotesque sculpture and 
 painting, peculiar to the age and the country. It 
 was one of those hospitable structures which in 
 many parts of Southern India go under the name of 
 Durrumsalla, or a place of rest for travellers ; and 
 which o\ve their origin to the unfeigned piety, or the 
 death-bed repentance of some wealthy mortal, who 
 thus erects a monument of his benevolence, or 
 attempts to bargain with the Deity for the pardon 
 of unatoned transgressions. 
 
 * The red-legged partridge. 
 
 t The hooded serpent ; commonly called iu India, from the 
 Portuguese, colra de capella.
 
 THE DUKRUMSALLA. 3 
 
 Situated on an open spot, on the borders of that 
 trackless wilderness which encircles the fortress of 
 Savindroog in its mazy fold, the Durrumsalla offered 
 at all times a delightful retreat to wandering pilgrims 
 and wayfaring travellers; who gladly sought its 
 shelter from the fervours of the mid-day sun, or 
 when the jungle echoed with the howling of its 
 savage denizens. The crystal tank which stood 
 beside it, forming part of this truly benevolent esta- 
 blishment, and reflecting the umbrageous wood in 
 its peaceful bosom, oiFered to the weary traveller the 
 means alike of slaking his thirst and of performing 
 his devotions ; while on the lofty flight of granite 
 steps which led down its four sides, deep into the 
 water, might be seen, at all hours of the day, males 
 and females, in the performance of their religious 
 ablutions, indiscriminately availing themselves of the 
 refreshing fluid, and carrying it ofl* in their lotas * 
 for culinary and other purposes. 
 
 Two lofty portals, at opposite sides of the Dur- 
 rumsalla, led into a spacious quadrangle, in the centre 
 of which stood an open temple of hewn granite, whose 
 ponderous flat roof, supported by slender and graceful 
 pillars, was sculptured with the signs of the zodiac — 
 a species of ornament common to ancient edifices of 
 this description ; and from the resemblance of wliich 
 
 * Earthen or brazen vessels for drawing water. 
 B 2
 
 4 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 to those now universally in use, it is supposed that 
 the knowledge of these arbitrary symbols was derived 
 from the East. On a massy pedestal beneath, lay a 
 ponderous marble Bull, the Yahan, or vehicle of 
 Siva, the Destroying Personage of the Hindoo 
 Triad ; and, from the quantity of oil, red lead, and 
 vermilion bestowed upon his sacred form, it was to 
 be inferred that the worship of the sanguinary deity 
 took precedence of all others in this savage wilderness. 
 It was a gay and noisy scene inside the Durrum- 
 salla, for many travellers had casually met together 
 within its sheltering walls. Beneath a noble veranda, 
 which ran round the four sides of the quadrangle, the 
 natives of distant countries, and the most bigoted 
 sectarians of the Trimurti creed* were associated 
 toQ-ether, as on a neutral crround of mutual accommo- 
 dation. Here was no griping innkeeper, no bustling 
 waiter, and no pert chambermaid, to minister to the 
 wants, or drain the purses of the wayfaring sojourner. 
 Each guest came provided with his own means of 
 refection and repose ; and either with his own hands, 
 or by means of his servant, cooked his simple meal, 
 and spread his still more simple mat where he chose, 
 uncontrolled and unquestioned; at liberty to come 
 and go, free from all pecuniary demands. Some lay 
 
 * The Hindoo doctrine of the Triad; Brama, Vishnu, and 
 Siva: the creating, preserving, and destroying personages, or 
 rather attributes, of the Deity. '
 
 THE DUKRUMSALLA. 5 
 
 sleeping on the ground, some smoked their hookahs 
 in quiet unobtrusive gravity ; some were grinding 
 their curry stuiF, whilst others were cooking their 
 mullakatauny, and chatting on the dangers and diffi- 
 culties of their respective journeys through this 
 dreaded region, infested alike by wild beasts and 
 predatory Bheels, both equally ruthless and terrific. 
 
 In one part of this common chamber might be 
 seen the haughty Mussulmaun Sirdar, or military 
 chieftain, reclining on his rug ; his lance and tulwar 
 leaning against a pillar, and his lackered shield hang- 
 ing at his charger's saddle-bow. Behind him, in 
 meek and humble attendance, stood his hookah- 
 burdaur, with the fresh and fra2;rant weed renewino; 
 every now and then the chillum* of his chief, who, 
 half slumbering over the silver tube which he held to 
 his lips, seemed too indolent, or too proud, even to 
 gaze upon his fellovf-travellers. Under the same 
 protecting shade, a rich Hindoo shroff, or banker, 
 spread his Persian carpet on the marble-like floor of 
 highly-polished chunam; and Avhile he turned over 
 his tushee, or string of beads, as if heaven alone 
 occupied his thoughts, he plainly showed a lurking 
 love for Mammon, by bending his keen and careful 
 look on the fat, cream-coloured oxen which drew his 
 hackery f and shook the silver bells of their burnished 
 
 * A fresh chillum is equivalent to a fresh pipe. 
 I Hindoo bullock carriage. 
 B 3
 
 •6 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 harness, as they chewed their gram in silent enjoy- 
 ment. 
 
 The open space of the quadrangle was occupied 
 by a motley collection of carts, camels, and bullocks, 
 reposing from their morning's labour ; while peons, 
 coolies, dubashes, and maty-boys were hurrying 
 backwards and forwards, making some necessary 
 arrangements in the equipages of their masters, or 
 preparing the savoury tiffin. The confusion of 
 tongues was stupendous, and the numerous petty 
 quarrels that arose amongst these angry serving-men 
 occasioned a variety of laughable incidents, which 
 happily left no lasting impressions either moral or 
 physical ; though they continued without intermission 
 until all were more profitably employed at the mid- 
 day meal. 
 
 Apart from all, on a ragged mat, aftid chewing his 
 betel in gloomy abstraction, sat a wandering Yogie, 
 or religious mendicant of the Hindoo faith; his 
 attenuated form, proudly erect, powdered over with 
 sacred ashes, and displaying unequivocal marks of 
 direful penance. Heedless of the busy throng 
 that surrounded him, he seemed altogether absorbed 
 in the contemplation of his deity ; the only indications 
 he gave of existence being by the sound of a little 
 brazen gong suspended from his wrist, which lie 
 occasionally struck with a bar of the same metal ; 
 muttering at the same time some unintelligible
 
 THE DURKUMSALLA. 7 
 
 sounds, which the ignorant mistook for the inspira- 
 tions of his god. 
 
 Before the venerable man, in an attitude of defer- 
 ence and profound attention, stood a youth, whose 
 handsome features and elegant form might serve as 
 a model for a statuary. With an anxious and im- 
 ploring look he gazed on the grim visage of the sage, 
 as if watching an opportunity to communicate some 
 important intelligence, or to prefer some humble suit, 
 through his intercession, to the deity. It was long, 
 however, before the imperturbable features of the 
 Yogie relaxed from the celestial reverie in which he 
 was absorbed : but he did at length bestow something 
 like a favouring smile on his attentive votary ; who 
 eagerly seized the auspicious moment, and, bending 
 his knee to the ground, addressed the favoured of 
 heaven in a deprecating voice as follows : — 
 
 " Holy father ! may a sinful rover of the jungle 
 crave a boon at your sacred hand ? " 
 
 No answer was returned to this humble request 
 by the gloomy ascetic ; who, though apparently lost 
 in profound abstraction, was peering anxiously from 
 under his shaggy eyebrows at the supplicant, as if 
 he sought to penetrate the nature of his profession, 
 and the object of his wishes. 
 
 " For the love of Malm-Kali!'' ^ exclaimed the 
 
 Doorga, the sanguinary goddess of Siva, or Mahadco. 
 B 4
 
 8 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 youth, "grant my request, and read in my nuseeh 
 whether good or evil still remains in the cup of my 
 destiny." 
 
 The sage stretched forth his withered arm towards 
 the brow of the youth, and drawing the skin of his 
 forehead into wrinkles with his long scraggy fingers, 
 affected to read therein the will of fate. 
 
 ''Ram, Ram NarayunV* the Yogie at length, 
 after a long pause, exclaimed in oracular accents ; 
 *'the horses and camels are at hand, and the Bheels 
 skulk in the desert." 
 
 "t/ey ^«Zi/"t cried the youth, somewhat impa- 
 tiently, " all this I know ; but I would fain learn if 
 it be the will of God that Lillah shall ever again 
 return the love of her adoring and forsaken Yega." 
 
 *' Lillah," replied the sage, in a hollow voice, " is 
 fair as the morning sun, but false as the Sarauh of 
 the desert." 
 
 " Ai WaliU'^X ejaculated the youth, in plaintive 
 accents, " your words, holy father, are true, though 
 painful to my heart." 
 
 " But the dagger of the betrayed," resumed the 
 Yogie, " shall drink the heart's blood of the 
 traitress." 
 
 " May Doorga forbid ! " hastily exclaimed the youth, 
 
 * Salutation to Narayun, a name of the Deity, 
 f Victory to Kali ! 
 X Woe is me !
 
 THE DURRUMSALLA. 9 
 
 with a shudder of horror. " The hand of Vega never 
 could deface the perfection of nature's most finished 
 workmanship." 
 
 " And the matchlock of the rival," continued the 
 sage, "shall penetrate the brain of the slayer." 
 
 *' JEi/ah Mahadeo ! " * cried the terror-struck Yega, 
 while perspiration hung in profuse drops on his agi- 
 tated forehead ; " this is a fearful destiny you reveal, 
 and my soul is turned to water ; but tell me, I implore 
 you " 
 
 " Seek no further," replied the Yogie sternly, " to 
 lift the veil of fate — the hour of destiny approaches 
 — the hand of death is raised, but the victim is ready, 
 and his blood shall sprinkle the doomed land of the 
 destroyer ! " 
 
 The youth gazed with mingled awe and curiosity 
 on the mysterious expounder of destiny, whose 
 hitherto immovable frame was now strongly agitated 
 by contending emotions, as he poured forth his dark 
 oracular sayings. In a supplicating voice, Yega again 
 besought his attention, but the Yogie, waving his 
 hand, sternly exclaimed : — 
 
 " Begone ! child of a devoted race ! Begone ! for 
 the battle is at hand ! Hark ! hear you not the 
 neighing of their steeds, and the ringing of the hollow 
 turf beneath their iron tread? Hear you not the 
 
 * Oh, great God !
 
 10 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 brazen blast of the trumpet as it booms on the dying 
 breeze ? Dullard, begone ! and tell thy ruthless chief 
 to seek a better scout than thee." 
 
 The youth sprang to his feet and threw himself 
 into a listening attitude, as if he sought to catch the 
 sounds which had apparently already reached the ears 
 of the sage. Suddenly he gave a start of joy, and 
 putting his bent finger into his mouth he poured 
 forth a whistle so loud and shrill, that every inmate 
 of the Durrumsalla turned hastily to see whence it 
 proceeded. Then with a bound as light and active 
 as the antelope when flushed in his covert by the 
 Cheeta, the love-sick Vega sprang through the gate- 
 way of the building, and disappeared amidst the sur- 
 roundino^ foliaoce. 
 
 Scarcely had the inmates of the Durrumsalla 
 recovered from the surprise occasioned by this little 
 scene, when the jungle echoes rang with a rude and 
 martial clangour, which reverberated through the 
 hospitable edifice, and eifectually roused its half- 
 slumbering occupants. The brazen blasts of many 
 trumpets rent the air, and the hollow peal of royal 
 nagras, or huge kettle-drums, was borne on the 
 breeze, interspersed with the loud neighing of gallant 
 chargers, and the stern marshalling of manly voices. 
 
 Springing at once to their feet, the affrighted 
 inmates of the Durrumsalla, fully believing that 
 innumerable hordes of ferocious Bheels were pouring
 
 THE DUERUMSALLA. 11 
 
 down from their hills to destroy them, seized on such 
 weapons as most readily presented themselves, and 
 hurried forth; some to defend the entrance of the 
 building, and others to seek concealment in the 
 labyrinths of the surrounding jungle, but all panic- 
 struck and dismayed at so unexpected and terrific an 
 event.
 
 12 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 CHAP. 11. 
 
 THE SOUWARRIE. 
 
 But the scene which now presented itself bore 
 rather a pacific than a warlike character ; and to the 
 exceeding great comfort of the affrighted travellers, 
 displayed all the gorgeous and glittering pageantry 
 of a royal procession, instead of the rude and fero- 
 cious onslaught of the predatory Bheels. 
 
 Emerging from the dun shadows of the jungle, a 
 troop of armed and mounted men galloped over the 
 verdant turf, their lances glittering in the sun, and 
 the gaudy pennons of their nishan hurdaiirs * floating 
 on the breeze ; while at their head a youthful chief, 
 of gay and gallant bearing, rode forward on one of 
 those "moon-coloured" steeds of Arabia, so highly 
 prized in the East, whose silken tail was stained for 
 several inches near the end with licnna, and displayed, 
 higher up, a broad ring of the same favourite colour. 
 Next came two stately camel?, with gorgeous trap- 
 pings and golden banners ; their richly clad riders 
 strikins: at measured intervals with sino'le dubs the 
 
 * Standard-bearers.
 
 THE SOUWAERIE. 13 
 
 royal nagras, or kettle-drums, that were slung before 
 them. These were followed by a band of trumpeters 
 mounted on Toorki steeds, flinging their brazen blasts 
 on high, and rousing the echoes of the forest ; and 
 then a stately elephant appeared, waving his trunk 
 upwards, as if in salutation of the distinguished per- 
 sonage he carried. 
 
 The jhools, or housings of this noble animal were 
 of crimson cloth richly embroidered, and hung in 
 many an ample fold down his gigantic sides. The 
 howdah which crowned his back was adorned with 
 the richest gilt carving, and was lined with gold and 
 silver tissue. A venerable Brahmin, as indicated by 
 the zennar, or sacerdotal cord of his Caste, sat 
 within, on cushions of brocade; but, though lances 
 were gleaming around him, and many a shining 
 brand and coat of mail sparkled in the sun, he rather 
 resembled a sage Yakeel*, bound on some diplomatic 
 mission, than the leader of a hostile band in search of 
 fame and spoil. A train of camels, laden apparently 
 with costly merchandise, or royal presents, next 
 issued from the obscurity of the forest, the bosky 
 glens resounding with the music of their numerous 
 bells; and the procession was finally closed by a 
 gallant band of matchlock-men, whose quaint attire 
 and foreign air denoted them to be strangers in the 
 South. 
 
 * Ambassador.
 
 14 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 It was a lovely sight presented by this gay and 
 goodly pageantry, especially to the affrighted inmates 
 of the Durrurasalla, who now flocked out upon the 
 green, and crept from their hiding holes, delighted with 
 the gallant troopers as they came sparkling through 
 the forest gloom, like stars shining through the veil 
 of night. 
 
 The air was impregnated with a delicious balm, 
 as the variegated flowers which sprang from the 
 verdant sod were crushed under the hoofs of the 
 prancing steeds. The palm tree reared on high its 
 tall bare trunk and leafy head ; and amidst clustering 
 vines the areka showed its elegantly slender stem and 
 silvery bark. The talipot * displayed over the sur- 
 rounding foliage its proud diadem, rich with count- 
 less blossoms ; and the orange and the lime tree lent 
 their mingled perfumes to the breeze. Amidst the 
 sylvan scenery the sacred burghut f spread its leafy 
 bowers and endless shade; and the bending nargilX 
 soaring upwards from its slender roots, waved on high 
 its matted leaves and clusters of milky nuts. A 
 countless variety of other trees overshadowed the 
 verdant turf; and between their stems were seen 
 flowery glades, and alleys winding into the heart of 
 the forest, brilliant at times with rosy light, and anon 
 
 * A species of palm, like the palmyra when not in blossom ; 
 but when crowned with its flowers, the most magnificent of 
 vegetables. 
 
 f The banian tree. \ The cocoa-nut tree.
 
 THE SOUWARRIE. 15 
 
 lost in deepening shade : while, towering high above 
 the leafy screen of the jungle, and softened in the 
 airy distance, the lofty summit of Savindroog was 
 seen, proudly scowling on the landscape, and presenting 
 to the mind an image of some ruthless tyrant shaking 
 his chains in triumph over conquered nations. 
 
 As the gorgeous Souwarrie, or military cortege, 
 drew near to the Durrumsalla, and appeared to view 
 its friendly shade with much complacency and inward 
 gratulation, the Chobdars, a noisy race, whose busi- 
 ness it is to herald in their masters with all the " pride, 
 pomp, and circumstance " of high-sounding dignities, 
 rushed forward, with loud and haughty voices pro- 
 claiming the numerous titles of their respective lords. 
 Of these the first in rank and consequence was 
 " the wise in council and venerable of years, the 
 unequalled sage, Oodiaver Sahib, Yakeel and Am- 
 bassador Extraordinary of the mighty and puissant 
 Eajah of Mysore," while the leader of his martial 
 retinue was designated as " Morad Ali Khan, the 
 Eefuge of the Weak and the Sword of Battle." 
 
 He (not the sage, but the soldier) was a gay and 
 handsome youth as ever laughed at wrinkled care, or 
 bent his knee in homage at the shrine of beauty. 
 The excessive neatness of his dress and person, re- 
 dolent of countless perfumes, confessed the anxious 
 solicitude with which his toilette had been attended 
 to. The darkness of his roving eye indicated the
 
 16 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 care with which the jetty kohol had been that morning 
 drawn by the bodkin's point inside the lids ; and his 
 black moustache and curling beard seemed perfectly 
 fresh from the experienced hands of his favourite 
 hirjam* Shining with oil of roses a zulf, or love 
 lock, dangled behind the ear, sweeping gracefully 
 from under the turban of the youthful hero, who 
 wore a silken jubba, or mantle, covered with rich 
 embroidery ; under which appeared an ulkhaulik, or 
 vest of flowered chintz, sparkling with jewels. His 
 graceful figure was set oiF in the very acme of 
 Oriental dandyism, by the tightly-girded shawl-cum- 
 merband, which, while it compresses the waist, gives 
 expansion to the chest and shoulders. A golden- 
 hilted scimitar was suspended by silver links from a 
 snow-white belt, or girdle ; and his buckler, the ma- 
 nufacture of Sylhet, was covered with the skin of 
 the rhinoceros, which by a peculiar process was ren- 
 dered as clear and transparent as crystal : it was 
 painted and gilt in the beautiful manner of Hin- 
 doostan, and it was further adorned with bosses of 
 silver, richly chased and ornamented, and unstained 
 by the toils of camp or battle. He rode a light- 
 coloured charger, of the fleet and docile breed of 
 Nejd-\, whose mettle he dis2:>laycd with grace and 
 
 * The barber-surgeon of Indin. 
 
 t The province in Arabia whence come the most celebrated 
 horses.
 
 THE SOUWAKKIE 17 
 
 skill in many a curvet and demi-volt, while every 
 pace and action of the noble animal evinced his pure 
 descent and gentle blood. 
 
 Young Morad was a native of that sunny clime, 
 where love and the " liquid ruby " inspired the muse 
 of Hafiz. Gay, volatile, and brave, a truant dispo- 
 sition had led him to reject the service of his native 
 country, to seek fame and fortune in other lands ; 
 and after roving through many regions, he now held 
 the rank of rissaldar * in the service of Mysore : for 
 even at this early period the princes of that heaven- 
 descended line, as they aflPected to call themselves, 
 encouraged that resort of foreign adventurers to their 
 court, which ultimately ended in their own subversion 
 by the enterprising, though short-lived dynasty of 
 Hyder AH. 
 
 The rissalla, or mounted troop, commanded by 
 the chivalrous Persian, on the present occasion, con- 
 sisted of Kajapoots, than whom more gallant men or 
 more devoted soldiers were unknown in the East. 
 They were distinguished by badges of gilt metal 
 worn round the neck, displaying a sun, the type of 
 their divine ancestor the "radiant Surya," and a 
 warrior on horseback. They were mounted on 
 spirited and showy chargers, and well armed with 
 swords and lances ; in addition to which some bore a 
 mace or a battle-axe at their saddle-bow, or a pistol 
 
 * A commander of horse. 
 VOL. I. C
 
 18 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 of rude fabric at their waist ; and all had shields of 
 hide or steel, with bosses of silver or gilt stuff, hang- 
 ing over one shoulder. They were dressed in shawls 
 and tissues, with muslin turbans twisted round their 
 steel casques; and they had quilted poshauks, oi* 
 breast-pieces, which were proof against sabre cuts, 
 and weakened even the force of an arrow, or a spear 
 thrust. 
 
 The quaint attire of the matchlock-men was more 
 coarse and plain. Impelled by their predatory 
 habits, these adventurous spirits had quitted their 
 native Afghanistaun for the service of Mysore ; glad 
 to exchange their northern toils and poor fare for 
 the more genial clime and luxurious living of the 
 south. They were fine-looking men, but debauched 
 in their appearance, and reckless in their manner: 
 the native insolence of their predatory habits re- 
 maining in all its pristine rudeness, and forming a 
 singular contrast to the mild and gentle manners of 
 the children of Brahma. The Afghauns wore high 
 conical caps of cloth, with woollen caftans drawn 
 closely round the waist by loongees, or long cotton 
 scarfs of gaudy colours. A white camees * hung in 
 numerous folds down to the knee ; and long trowsers 
 and sandals completed the dress. Their arms con- 
 sisted of short crooked swords or scimitars; they 
 
 * A sort of shirt ; the French and Italian names for which 
 garment are evidently derived from this word.
 
 THE SOUWARKIE. 19 
 
 carried kkunjurs, or long daggers, in their girdles, and 
 matchlocks over their shoulders. 
 
 Such was the gay appearance presented by the 
 martial retinue of the venerable Brahmin; but he 
 himself displayed in person and manners a singular 
 contrast to his showy attendants. With all that 
 lofty scorn of external splendour, which constitutes 
 the real pride of Brahma's eldest born, he exhibited 
 in his own dress an extreme, though neat simplicity. 
 But though his mien was mild and humble, there 
 was in his character all the wily subtilty and stubborn 
 tenacity of his race : while the solemn gravity of his 
 manner and the sententious style of his conversation, 
 when he deigned to open his lips to any one under 
 the rank of royalty, passed with the multitude for 
 the very quintessence of wisdom. 
 
 The venerable Oodiaver was a pundit * of learned 
 fame, and was held in high estimation at the court of 
 Mysore, especially by the female branches of the 
 royal family, for his gossiping qualities were of the 
 first-rate order. He was particularly endeared to 
 the Maha Baneej for the excessive interest he 
 always took in the affairs of her peerless daughter, 
 the Princess Lachema, and the anxiety he displayed 
 in ministering to her slightest wishes. It is true she 
 was a lady of unequalled loveliness and merit ; but 
 
 * An expounder of the Hindoo law. 
 t The Queen. A corruption of Rajni : female king. 
 C 2
 
 20 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 this, perhaps, did not weigh so much with the vener- 
 able sage as the accidental circumstance of her birth, 
 which rendered her the undoubted heiress of the 
 wealthy and flourishing kingdom of Mysore. How- 
 ever this be, certain it is that he was chosen, on the 
 present occasion, by the queen, as her confidential 
 ambassador to the sacred shrine of Mailcottah, on a 
 mission of great delicacy and importance ; and it was 
 on his journey to that heaven-built temple that he 
 now delayed his stately march ; to repose during the 
 fervours of the day beneath the greenwood shade, and 
 in the dangerous vicinity of Savindroog. 
 
 The brilliant cortesre of the Brahmin havino: come 
 to their halting ground, and the venerable man 
 having descended from his howdah and taken tempo- 
 rary shelter under a spreading tamarind, where his 
 dubash had placed his Persian carpet, the encamp- 
 ment was formed for the day. The camels, on a 
 given signal, bent their pliant knees ; and being re- 
 lieved from their respective burthens, the khulassees* 
 pitched the tents upon the sloping green that lay 
 between the Durrumsalla and the tank : the Afs^hauns 
 piled their arms beneath the trees ; and the Rajapoots 
 having ranged their horses in a line, and tethered 
 them with head and heel roj)es, tied on their fobras, 
 or nose-bags, and left them to enjoy their gram. 
 
 * Camp equipage keepers, and tent pitchers.
 
 THE SOUWARRIE. 21 
 
 The camels chewed the cud lazily, as they lay round 
 the spot where they were unloaded, or broused on 
 the bushes withm reach of their long necks. The 
 elephant having plucked some tender branches from 
 the surrounding: trees for a bonne hoiiclie, was confined 
 to a picket by a very slight chain round the leg; 
 barely sufficient to indicate that he was under con- 
 straint, but inadequate to prevent him from roving, 
 if rebellion sly disposed to do so, which, however, he 
 never attempts, except in the season of love. There 
 the noble animal, by way of recreation, throwing 
 earth and leaves along his back with his "lithe 
 proboscis," and, alternately swinging one of his gigan- 
 tic legs to and fro, swallowed his huge balls of gram, 
 or munched his green forage with contented docility ; 
 while the children of the Mohout, or driver, played 
 in perfect security and confidence round his for- 
 midable trunk ; or ran backwards and forwards, in all 
 the unrestrained glee of childhood, between his legs 
 and under his enormous body. 
 
 While these dispositions were making for the 
 comfort of the brute creation, the Baiourchees, or 
 cooks, were equally busy in their department, pre- 
 paring the mid-day meal for the rational portion of 
 the expedition. Under the shelter of some lofty 
 trees the spits turned merrily over charcoal fires : an 
 earthen oven was constructed for the baking depart- 
 ment; and Choolahs, or hot hearths, for stews and 
 c 3
 
 22 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 other savoury compounds, were nmnufactured with 
 the greatest facility. With all these appliances and 
 means to boot, the important and savoury operation 
 was carried on with unwearied assiduity, and brought 
 to a happy conclusion soon after the sun had passed 
 the meridian.
 
 AN- ABORIGINAL EACE. 23 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 AN ABORIGINAL RACE. 
 
 The tract of jungle, or forest land, that lies between 
 Seringapatam and Bangalore, offers even at this day 
 a wild and uncultivated aspect : but at the period of 
 our story it presented a singular picture of the pre- 
 datory life and manners of a race of warriors and 
 hunters now fast decaying before the progress of civi- 
 lisation, and the advancement of industry and science. 
 Long ere the energy and talents of Hyder had 
 set aside the time-worn dynasty of the Hindoo 
 monarchs of Mysore, such was the unsettled state of 
 this impenetrable region that, although a nominal 
 sovereignty was claimed by those princes over its 
 savage fastnesses, yet even in the immediate vicinity 
 of the formidable fortress of Srirunga])uttun, or as 
 the name is modernised, Seringapatam, their power 
 was scoffed at, and their peaceable subjects not un- 
 frequently plundered or led into captivity by the 
 hardy freebooters who roved the wilderness, and 
 acknowled":ed no riofht but the sword — no law but 
 the strongest arm and the stoutest heart, 
 c 4
 
 24 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 Against these dangerous and troublesome neigh- 
 bours, the Rajapoot princes of Mysore had long 
 maintained a sanguinary and fluctuating warfare. 
 On the plains and in the open country, it is true, 
 they were always victorious ; but, with a few splendid 
 exceptions, they almost invariably failed when they 
 attempted to pursue their deadly enemies into their 
 pathless wilds: while the latter, who boasted the 
 remote antiquity and warlike character of the Bheel 
 race, affected to look upon the Rajapoots as novi 
 homines, or interlopers on their paternal domains, 
 and consequently as fit and becoming victims to be 
 offered up at the shrine of their sanguinary goddess 
 Doorga. 
 
 That the Bheels are a distinct and original race,, 
 the Autocthones, or ^^rimitive inhabitants of India, 
 seems now to be universally admitted. It is equally 
 certain that they have been driven to their present 
 fastnesses and savage mode of life by the invasion of 
 those tribes who profess the religion of Brahma, and 
 who themselves acknowledge they were not originally, 
 natives of India, but descended into the plains of 
 Hindoostan through the pass of Haridwar. There 
 seems no reason to doubt the general correctness of 
 this historico-poctical account of the Bheels; who 
 while their Rajapoot conquerors arrogate celestial 
 descent, and call themselves Suryas, and Indiqmtras, 
 or children of the sun and moon, content themselves
 
 AN ABORIGINAL KACE. 25 
 
 with the more primitive appellations of Bomaputra, 
 sons of the earth, and Venaputra, children of the 
 forest. 
 
 Thus driven to the wilds and fastnesses of the 
 country, and acknowledging at best but a precarious 
 allegiance to their conquerors, the Bheels consider 
 that they have a prescriptive right to levy contri- 
 butions on all who approach their secluded haunts ; 
 but especially on the two principal Castes of Brahmins 
 and Kajapoots, whom they look upon as usurpers of 
 their paternal rights. 
 
 To this political cause of grievance was superadded 
 the still more bitter incentive of religious animosity. 
 The wars of Crishna (an avatar, or incarnation of the 
 god Vishnu) eifected a salutary change in the existing 
 system of theology, by substituting, for the sanguinary 
 sacrifices required by Mahadeo, offerings of images in 
 lieu of human victims, and milk for blood : from this 
 schism sprang the two hostile sects of Vishnaivas and 
 Sivas, which frequently contested with the sword the 
 palm of religious supremacy ; the subject of their ani- 
 mosity on such occasions being that highly apocryphal 
 point whether the sacred Gunga* issued from the foot 
 of Vishnu or the head of Mahadeo. Nor amon2:st the 
 numerous adherents of the latter could he boast more 
 determined partisans than the various tribes of the 
 
 * Ganges.
 
 26 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 Bheel race; which, spread over the wild and un- 
 civilised parts of India, under various denominations, 
 maintained the sanguinary worship of the destroying 
 deity, with a degree of obstinacy characteristic of 
 their gross ignorance and boundless superstition. 
 
 The tribe or section in whose fortunes we are at 
 present interested had occupied for centuries the 
 district before described; consisting of a close and 
 impenetrable jungle, the savage haiint of tigers, 
 wolves, and other beasts of prey, which stoutly con- 
 tested with the Bheels the supremacy of the wilder- 
 ness. The forest embraced wdthin its sylvan girdle 
 numerous Droogs, or towering rocky eminences, 
 fortified after the rude manner of the times ; each 
 being the stronghold and seat of government of some 
 Polygar, or predatory chief, who kept hollow truce 
 with his neighbour, and maintained around him a 
 hardy crew of lawless freebooters, ever ready to levy 
 contributions on the inhabitants of the open and 
 cultivated country, or on such travellers as chance 
 or destiny conducted into their territories. 
 
 Some of these jungle chiefs, whose lands were 
 situated on the skirts of the forest, as the Polygars 
 of Hooleadroog and Ootradroog, had been so far 
 humbled by the arms of Mysore as to acknowledge 
 the supremacy of that power: but the most pre- 
 eminent of all these hill-forts, wdiich was situated in 
 the very heart of the forest, still maintained its
 
 AN ABOEIGINAL EACE. 27 
 
 independence, and bade a proud defiance to the arts 
 and arms of the otherwise invincible Rajapoots. 
 
 This was Savindroog, or the " Eock of Death ; " 
 so called, not only from its impregnable nature, but 
 also from the malaria, or pestilential vapour, Avhich 
 arose from the close and impervious jungle that lay- 
 around it ; and over which it towered above half a 
 mile in perpendicular height, from a base of eight or 
 ten miles in circumference. The lord of this terrific 
 rock at the period of our story was Kempe Goud, a 
 bitter and an enterprising foe of the reigning Rajah 
 of Mysore, from whom he had sustained many serious 
 losses and defeats, but whose supremacy he never 
 could be brought to acknowledge ; and from his head- 
 strong passions and implacable ire arose the stirring 
 and adventurous scenes we are about to relate. 
 
 This brief sketch of a once numerous and remarka- 
 ble race we have thought necessary for the instruction 
 of the reader, and to prevent future interruptions in 
 our narrative, to which we now return. 
 
 Those rules of Caste which in India have the 
 peculiar merit of raising the Hindoo above the de- 
 bauched Moslem, constitute a distinction perhaps the 
 most arbitrary in existence ; which governs all classes 
 of that singular and primitive people, and controls 
 not only their religious observances but also their 
 social and domestic arrangements, even in their most 
 minute and commonplace transactions.
 
 28 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 In conformity with this solemn and most sacred 
 obligation, when the dinner-hour, as announced in a 
 preceding chapter, had arrived, the Hindoo portion of 
 the Brahmin's body-guard very carefully drew a circle 
 round that portion of the sod which they destined for 
 their mess-table; to prevent the intrusion of some un- 
 happy Pariah, whose shadow alone, if it happened to 
 fall upon their food, would be quite sufficient to pol- 
 lute it for ever. 
 
 They next poured libations of pure water, together 
 with a few grains of rice, to Rama, an avatar of 
 Vishnu, their tutelar deity: then sitting down in 
 circular groups on the grass, and throwing light 
 muslin screens over their heads, as if the eyes of the 
 spectators alone were sufficient to defile their dinner, 
 they silently and hastily despatched their frugal fare ; 
 consisting of rice and vegetable curries, fruits, and 
 other such innocent food, the preparation of which 
 had never occasioned the destruction of animal life. 
 Their simple banquet was crowned with draughts of 
 water from the tank ; which, however turbid or disco- 
 loured in appearance, these pious people hold to be 
 at all times equally pure and wholesome, being one 
 of the greatest boons bestowed by Heaven upon man, 
 and therefore incapable of contamination. 
 
 Not so easily satisfied, however, was that sensual 
 and sturdy crew of Afghaun matchlock-men who 
 formed the rear-guard of the Brahmin's retinue, and
 
 AN ABORIGINAL RACE. 29 
 
 who looked with the most sovereign contempt on the 
 proceedings of their more scrupulous Hindoo com- 
 panions in arms. Their cooks were men of taste and 
 science, well versed in all that culinary skill which 
 enables the Amphytrions of EZhorassaun to lay before 
 their guests a succession of some scores of dishes, 
 differing in quality and flavour, but all equally appe- 
 tissant. Accordingly some skins being spread upon 
 the verdant turf, as a sofra, or tablecloth, a savoury 
 banquet was soon displayed thereon ; consisting of a 
 profusion of curries, pillaws of marrow tinged with 
 saffron, highly spiced stews, rich kabobs seasoned and 
 cemented with pounded poppy-seed, muUikatauny, 
 fruits, sweetmeats, &c., sufficient in quantity and 
 quality to create an appetite under the very ribs of 
 death. 
 
 The guests being seated, a youthfiol page went 
 round the circle with ewer and chillaumchee* , and all 
 having performed the customary ablution, they said 
 their " Bismillah f ," or grace before meat, and 
 thrusting every man his right hand into the dish, fell 
 to with an appetite and good will, very much en- 
 hanced by their morning's march. Unlike their tem- 
 perate fellow-soldiers,'"the matchlock-men had an utter 
 abhorrence of all beverage of an aqueous nature : and 
 therefore seasoned their food with copious draughts of 
 
 * A brass basin used on such occasions. 
 f In the name of God !
 
 30 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 sherbet, expressed from pine-apple, pomegranate, 
 mango, and other delicious fruits ; occasionally even 
 transgressing the injunctions of the Prophet, (of whose 
 tenets, by the way, they are the most lax of all 
 observers,) by tossing off sparkling bumpers of Sendi 
 wine, which being made from dates is of a racy but 
 intoxicating nature. 
 
 When their appetite was at length sufficiently 
 satisfied, these jovial fellows uttered with pious 
 fervour the customary grace, •" Alhumd-ul-illah ! Ta- 
 maum slioodV^ and while some of them reclined on 
 the verdant and flowery couch with which nature 
 had supplied them, to indulge in a short repose, the 
 others closed into a circle to enjoy the feast of reason 
 and the flow of soul, in the manner most approved of 
 at military messes in general. The culleaiin, a small 
 sort of hookah used on such jovial occasions, and 
 charged with the fragrant Bilsah tobacco, was passed 
 round from mouth to mouth, with the true spirit of 
 good fellowship ; while droll stories, and jests more 
 pregnant, perhaps, with sprightliness than wit, were 
 bandied from one to another, as they smacked their 
 lips over the sparkling Sendi. 
 
 Music, also, both vocal and instrumental, lent its 
 charms to grace this festive board ; and each in turn 
 touched the lute and warbled forth some strain of love 
 
 * Praise be to Allali ! It is done !
 
 AN ABORIGINAL EACE. 31 
 
 or war, in which the enthusiasm of the moment 
 enabled them to pass by good-naturedly all errors of 
 rhyme or reason ; but loudly the jungle echoes rang as 
 all joined ujDroariously in the chorus of the following 
 
 ROUNDELAY. 
 
 When the beetle's drowsy horn, 
 
 Winds across the silent lea, 
 Ere the rosy-finger'd morn, 
 
 ThroAvs a bright tint o'er the sea ; 
 When the moon her orb displaying. 
 
 Beams upon the lonely night. 
 And the wolf-dog loudly baying. 
 
 Seems to mock her silver light ; 
 Then we soldiers, ever cheery, 
 
 O'er the rugged mountain roam ; 
 Briskly dancing, never weary. 
 
 To the merry peal of the hollow drum. 
 
 When the sun is fiercely beaming, 
 
 O'er the snowy-tented field. 
 Of the morrow seldom "dreaming, 
 
 We to balmy slumber yield. 
 Or beneath the shady bowers. 
 
 In the jungle we recline, 
 Strewing life's dull path Avith flowers, 
 
 Cull'd from love and rosy wine. 
 
 Thus we soldiers, ever cheery, &c. 
 
 The sound of such unwonted mirth and jollity 
 rousing the echoes of the wilderness, called forth the
 
 32 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 inmates of the Durmmsalla, to witness orgies which 
 their fruo:al life and abstemious habits led them to 
 consider as little short of sacrilege and profanation. 
 They drew round the revellers in groups to listen to 
 their merry-making ; but they stood at a cautious 
 distance, lest the profane touch of these Pariahs in 
 practice, as well as in creed, should sully the sacred- 
 ness of their Caste, and subject them to extraordinary 
 penances and purifications. 
 
 " Shukur khoda ! " * exclaimed one of the revellers, 
 " this is the way to enjoy life, and to prepare our- 
 selves like reasonable creatures for the joys of the 
 Prophet's paradise ; not by bilking the stomach with 
 insipid rice and cold water, like our Hindoo brethren 
 of the sword yonder." 
 
 " Mashalla!^^ cried another, "there is more virtue 
 in a fat kabob and a cup of Sendi, than in all the 
 vegetable diet and watery beverage of those priest- 
 ridden pagans." 
 
 " Belli, Belli ! yes, yes ! " observed a third, " you 
 don't say amiss; but though in the way of good 
 living they're afraid to slaughter a chicken, the 
 burnt-fathers think nothing of spitting their enemies 
 by the dozen, wlien fairly in for it." 
 
 With a clear and mellow voice the sons: was now 
 resumed by a somewhat pensive member of the band, 
 
 * Thanks be to God !
 
 AN ABORIGINAL RACE. 33 
 
 who wore a gold ring in his ear, the pledge of fidelity 
 on the part of his distant sweetheart, for whom he 
 roamed through many lands in search of wealth and 
 fame. But, though all admired his musical voice, 
 they found his matter too sentimental, and silently 
 voted him a bore ; till one, the wildest of the band, 
 seized the lute, and, with eye on fire and bolder voice, 
 he thus sang forth the praises of that sparkling fount 
 which inspires the bards of every age and country : — ■ 
 
 Send the bumper round ! 
 
 I've roam'd through many regions, 
 Where I, alas ! have found 
 
 As many false religions. 
 The Brahmin swears his cow 
 
 Yields nectar fit for heaven ; 
 To such a faith to bow 
 
 I never shall be driven : 
 For mine's the jovial creed, 
 
 So free from silly doting ; 
 That bids the red grape bleed, 
 
 To keep the liver floating ! 
 
 « Wall! Wall! Shahasli! Shabashr'* cried the 
 Afghauns, imd voce — "noble Hafiz, may your shadow 
 never be less ! That's a most comfortable doctrine, and 
 you shall henceforth be our prophet." 
 
 " Kiss the Koran then," said the jovial songster, 
 handing round a small puchauhj bag replenished with 
 
 * Bravo ! bravo ! Well done ! well done ! 
 VOL. I. D
 
 34 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 Sendi wine : " kiss the Koran, and seal your fidelity 
 with your lips." 
 
 ''BismiUahf Bismillah !'"'* cried these interesting 
 neophytes, devoutly following his instructions. " AU 
 hail to our prophet, Inshallah 1 \ and success to his 
 new religion ! " 
 
 "Most reverend Hafiz," said one of the jovial 
 party, "pray favour us with another chapter out 
 of your Koran." 
 
 " With all my heart ! " responded Hafiz ; " but 
 give me the wine-skin, no prophet can preach without 
 inspiration." Then after a hearty draught of the 
 forbidden liquor, he resumed his song : — 
 
 II. 
 
 The Moslem is a fool 
 
 Who swears by Hara's mountain |, \ 
 That nought, can save the soul 
 
 But Zem-zem's holy fountain. § 
 The Koran says in wine, 
 
 We find the source of evil ; 
 Such faith is not divine, 
 
 But surely from the devil. 
 
 ^Now mine's the jovial creed, &c. 
 
 * In the name of God. t Please God ! 
 
 % Mount Hara, near Mecca,* on the top of which they affirm 
 that the Koran was brought to IMahommed by the angel 
 Gabriel. 
 
 § The miraculous well at Mecca is called Zem-zem, from the 
 murmuring of its waters ; and many fancy that in the interval
 
 AN ABORIGINAL RACE. 35 
 
 m. 
 
 The sons of rich Cathay *, 
 
 Those foes of mirth and laughing, 
 Are always, night and day, 
 
 Theii' sickly beverage quaffing. 
 Had I Azrael's f spear. 
 
 Instead of fire and slaughter. 
 To shorten their career, 
 
 I'd plunge them in hot water. 
 
 For mine's the jovial creed, &c. 
 
 The Tartar, silly ass ! 
 
 Whose fate good cheer denies him. 
 Swears nothing can surpass 
 
 The drink his mare supplies him. | 
 Ere such my lips should bilk, 
 
 To Beelzebub I'd sink it ; 
 'Tis nought but ass's milk. 
 
 And none but fools should drink it ! 
 
 Oh ! mine's the jovial creed, &c. 
 
 Mingled laughter and applause echoed long and 
 loud through the green avenues and bosky dells of 
 the forest, at the conclusion of this bacchanalian 
 carol; and cups were drained to the health of the 
 
 between death and resurrection, the souls of believers remain 
 in that holy fountain. 
 
 * China. f The angel of death. 
 
 I The national beverage of the Toorkmauns and Uzbeks is 
 kimmiz^ an intoxicating liquor prepared from marc's milk. 
 D 2
 
 36 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 gay troubadour, who was saluted on every side 
 with cries of " Barikillah ! Blsmillah ! Masliallah ! 
 Shahasli ! Shahash ! " * the usual expressions of ad- 
 miration amono^st the Afi2;hauns. 
 
 This tribute of incense was very grateful to the 
 songster, whose real name was Abdul Khallk ; but 
 upon whom his companions had bestoAved the more 
 euphonious appellation of Hafiz Bahauder, as indicat- 
 ing at once his swaggering disposition and wine-bib- 
 bing propensity. Elated with the universal applause, 
 he now became equally boisterous and facetious in his 
 mood, laughing, singing, and telling droll stories, until 
 his voluntary subjects fancied they were the happiest 
 mortals under the sun, and he the merriest monarch. 
 
 " By the beard of the Prophet, and may I die an 
 infidel!" cried one of the laughing auditory, "but 
 Hafiz is imbued with the soul of MIrza Mahommed, 
 surnamed 'Bulbul,' who used to drive the very 
 nightingales frantic with envy at his superior melody." 
 
 "Buss! BussT^f responded Hafiz; "a truce to 
 your waggery, comrades, and listen while I expound 
 to you the riddle of our present expedition." 
 
 " Bismillah ! Bismillah ! " cried the Afghauns, 
 " now for the grand secret." 
 
 " You all know," resumed Hafiz, " that this 
 gloomy forest, which is a sort of antechamber to the 
 
 * Excellent ! in the name of God ! bravo ! well done ! -well 
 done ! 
 
 t Enough ! enough!
 
 AN ABORIGINAL RACE. 37 
 
 infernal regions, belongs to the noted robber Kempe 
 Goud, and his plundering Bheels." 
 
 " Belli ! Belli !^' said a matchlock-man, " yonder is 
 the summit of his Droog, peeping over that clump of 
 cocoa-nut trees. Be we going to storm the old 
 rookery ? " 
 
 ^^ BarildllaliV^ cried Hafiz, ironically, "with a 
 string of camels laden with costly presents, and a 
 venerable Brahmin at our head, to lead the onslaught ! 
 Mashallah ! how Kempe would laugh at such an 
 order of battle!" 
 
 ^' Where then," demanded an Afghaun, " are we 
 going to, in the Prophet's name ? " 
 
 '' We're going on a Hoj*, to be sure," replied Hafiz, 
 drily. 
 
 " A HajV shouted all the matchlock-men. " La 
 illahe-il-ullah ! Che Khuhur ust ?"t 
 
 " Certainly, but not to Mecca, nor even to Meshed 
 or Kerbelah," responded Hafiz. 
 
 " Where then, in the name of Allah ? " demanded 
 the Afghaun s. 
 
 " To the Hindoo temple of Mailcottah ! " replied 
 Hafiz, as he added with becoming gravity, " May 
 my wife be three times divorced if I tell you a lie ! " 
 
 " Hindoo temple !" cried one, " Allali-ho-Ahher ! % 
 
 * Pil2[rima";e. 
 
 o o 
 
 f There is no god but God ! Wliat news is this ? 
 
 \ God is great ! 
 
 D 3
 
 3S SAVINDROOG. 
 
 Does the Eajah want to make pagans of us ? By 
 the fountain Zem-zem, he shall never uncircumcise 
 me." 
 
 ^' Nor me neither," said another. " By the holy 
 stone of Mecca I'll be no water drinker. Inshallnh ! 
 Tallahr'' 
 
 " Bismillah!^' cried a third, " I wouldn't give up 
 my hopes of the Seventy Virgins f for all the Bajahs 
 between this and the Attock." J 
 
 " Wah! Wah!'^^ interrupted Hafiz, " you are all 
 on a wrong scent, comrades. The Rajah doesn't 
 trouble himself about your good-for-nothing souls. 
 He's only anxious to save his daughter, the Begum, 
 from some impending calamity, which has been lately 
 discovered by the Brahmins, in their Book of Fate." 
 
 " Their Book of Fate ! TFullah ! " || cried an indig- 
 nant Mussulmaun. " The pagans ! Thooh ! I spit on 
 their fathers' graves ! They should read the Koran ; 
 that's the only book to try a Fd!al% in." 
 
 ^^ Be that as it may," said Hafiz, " our present 
 pilgrimage is to implore those heathen gods, with 
 
 * Please God ! please God ! 
 
 ■j- The liberal allowance of Houris assigned by Mahommed 
 to every true believer. 
 
 I The Kubicon cf the Hindoo faith. 
 
 § A common exclamation of surprise or dissent. 
 
 II Exclamation equivalent to heavens ! 
 
 •|[ To seek an omen. A practice in the East resembling the 
 sortes Virgiliance.
 
 AN ABORIGINAL KACE. 39 
 
 goggle-eyes and pot-bellies, for a happy marriage 
 between the Beo^um and Prince Kistna." 
 
 " Khoda huzoorg ! " * exclaimed one old campaigner: 
 " marriage and muslin are always uppermost in the 
 heads of silly girls ; but she's a beautiful creature ; 
 and here's success to her speculation, with all my 
 heart." 
 
 ^' Mooharik basliud! Inshallah ! ^' \ cried Hafiz. 
 " Our old Brahmin, how^ever, is in a bit of a pucker, 
 lest that incarnate devil, Kempe Goud, should inter- 
 fere with our pious purpose. But we'll do all that 
 men can do, comrades, in behalf of her Royal High- 
 ness." 
 
 " Barikillah ! Bismillah ! Inshallah I So we 
 will, Hafiz," cried the Afghauns. " We'll fight like 
 wild cats under our petticoat banner." 
 
 " Let us begin then," said Hafiz, " by drinking 
 her beautiful health all round." 
 
 ''In the name of God! an excellent motion!" 
 cried the enthusiastic Afghauns, suiting the action to 
 the word. 
 
 " We must drink Prince Ivistna's health, also," 
 said Hafiz, in his oracular way, '• or the marriage 
 will never prosper." 
 
 '^Inshallah! huliallaU! Bismillah !^^ echoed the 
 whole party. " Success to Prince Kistna, and all 
 the little Kistnas ! " 
 
 * God is great! f May it be auspicious, please God! 
 
 D 4
 
 40 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 '^ We must now," continued Hafiz, " drink to our 
 noble selves, as high contracting parties in this great 
 event. But how's this? Aid! by my soul, and 
 by the twelve Imaums ! the puckauly bag is empty ! 
 Ai Mourteza All!* all joys must have an end except 
 those of Paradise ; but let us have a chorus in spite 
 of fortune." 
 
 " Belli ! Belli ! Barildllah ! Bismillah / In- 
 shallah /" resounded on every side ; and the folloAving 
 chorus was sung in a manner that made the forest 
 echoes rins; aofain : — 
 
 Be ours the jovial creed, 
 
 So free from silly doting, 
 That bids the red grape bleed, 
 
 To keep the liver floating ! 
 
 * A saint on whom Mussulmauns frequently call for aid in 
 distress.
 
 THE JUNGLE -WALLAH. 41 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 THE JUNGLE-WALLAH. 
 
 This was the jovial state of affairs, when a new 
 personage appeared upon the scene, who approached 
 the merry-makers with a doubtful look and a hu- 
 mility of aspect, as though he seemed to think that 
 so lowly a guest might be deemed an impudent in- 
 truder in so brilliant and so gay a sphere. 
 
 The new-comer carried a chatty, or earthen vessel 
 in his hand, and was furnished with a crooked knife 
 and a leathern thong ; from which it might be inferred 
 that he was a Biluara, or one of those humble dwellers 
 of the greenwood, who derive a subsistence from the 
 sale of taree*^ one of the most seductive of in- 
 toxicating vegetable juices. This delicious beverage 
 is extracted from the Taul-gautch, or Palmyra tree, 
 and in the early morning, when just drawn, is cool, 
 salutary, and exhilarating ; but when fermented by 
 the heat of the sun, it becomes highly intoxicating ; 
 its potent and maddening qualities being not un- 
 frequently increased by an infusion of Datura juice, 
 
 * Called, by Europeans, toddy, or palm wine.
 
 42 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 which possesses a strongly narcotic and deleterious 
 quality. 
 
 Simple as he seemed to be, there was, however, 
 something sinister, which could not be overlooked 
 in the appearance of the forester. His short and 
 sinewy frame, which evinced great agility and 
 strength, was naked, all but a cummer-band round 
 the waist : his body was rubbed all over with cocoa- 
 nut oil; and there was at times a stern ferocity in 
 his look, which seemed unconsciously to proclaim 
 acquaintance with a bolder trade than that of a 
 taree seller. His scowling brow, and rugged 
 features, displayed many a trace of dark and evil 
 passions ; while his single eye, for fate had left him 
 only one, gleamed in lurid and sinister flashes. His 
 voice resembled the sullen grunt of the wild 1)oar 
 when the dogs have him at bay ; and though he now 
 essayed to bring forth its mildest and most musical 
 tones, they struck harsh and rugged on the ear, 
 where they left an impression by no means favour- 
 able to the speaker. 
 
 " Ram, ram, to the Sakih-logue ! " * said the taree 
 man, sidling up towards the revellers, and bending 
 his sturdy frame to the earth, in a most elaborate 
 salaam ; " may it please their lordships to grant the 
 humblest of their slaves a moment's audience ? " 
 
 * Salutation to the crentlefolk !
 
 THE JUNGLE-WALLAH. 43 
 
 Here a burst of laughter at the grotesque ap- 
 pearance and cringing air of the new-comer went 
 round the merry circle ; and many a jest was cracked 
 at the expense of his naked and well-oiled body, 
 which shone resplendent in the sun. Nothing 
 abashed, however, the jungle-wallah renewed his 
 petition for a hearing, in a still more servile tone 
 than before. 
 
 '' Ai, Bhavani devi ! " * he exclaimed, " I kiss the 
 dust of their lordships' sandals. They are the great 
 darters of the lightning |, and whose dog am I that I 
 should venture into their presence ? " 
 
 " To Khodah ! " cried one of the matchlock-men 
 at length, in a tone of derision; "who in the 
 Prophet's name have we got here ? " 
 
 " Shytaun ust!''^ replied another; " 'tis the devil 
 himself, or else ii jungle-ke-admee X, come to scrape an 
 acquaintance with human beings." 
 
 " Mashallah I " said a third, " 'tis a ghoul of the 
 desert, willing to partake of our festivity ; or Eblees 
 himself, come to act as master of the revels." 
 
 '' Bhote, hhote salaam to the hurra Bahauders ! " § 
 said the stranger, with a sardonic grin on his stern 
 features. " I know not the persons you mention, 
 
 * Ah, goddess Bhavani ! 
 
 f Burkendauz, matchlock-men. 
 
 I An ourang-outang, or wild man of the woods. 
 
 § Very best compliments to the great lords !
 
 44 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 tlioiigh they are doubtless your lordships' particular 
 friends and acquaintances." 
 
 " Barikillah ! the ass may sometimes bray in 
 season ! " said Hafiz Bahauder, laughing. " There 
 the infidel had the true believer on the hip, and 
 merits a cup of Sendi for his waggery." 
 • " By the favour of the Burra Sahib, I would re- 
 present," said the woodman, " that wine is forbidden 
 to the poor Hindoo ; but nature has given him 
 instead, a draught more pure than Pouban water, 
 which Cartikeia* himself often sips, when arming 
 for the crash of battle." 
 
 " By the honour of my five wives ! " exclaimed 
 Hafiz Bahauder, with one of his most fiivourite 
 oaths, " I should like to taste that boasted beverage 
 of thine, though, in general, I am not in the habit 
 of mixing my liquor." 
 
 " Jey Kali! Jey Maliadeo I ''^ \ said \\\q junf/le- 
 umllah, " your wishes shall be gratified, Bahauder 
 Sahib ; and for that purpose have I ventured to 
 intrude upon your lordships: for I am an humble 
 dweller of the forest, and it has seldom fallen to my 
 lot to listen to such minstrelsy as I have this 
 morning heard in this solitary place; compared to 
 which, the flute of Crishna ; himself is rude and 
 discordant." 
 
 * The Hindoo god of war. 
 
 •\ Victory to Kali ! victory to Maliadeo ! 
 
 X Tlie Hindoo Apollo.
 
 THE JUNGLE- WALLAH. 45 
 
 " Mashallah ! There is no gocl but God ! " ex- 
 claimed one of the Afghauns. " The savage really 
 seems to have an ear for music." 
 
 " Bj the oath of Gungajee, it was delightful/' 
 cried the forester with enthusiasm ; " and in gra- 
 titude for the treat, I humblj beg your lordships' 
 acceptance of the only recompense in my power — 
 the contents of my taree-pot, fresh and delicious 
 from the tree." 
 
 " Astafferullah ! " * cried another of the Afghauns, 
 with a look of suspicion. " By the beard of the 
 Prophet I like not your hospitality ; neither can I 
 brook with any patience, the squinting of your 
 single eyef, which throws a damp upon my spirit, 
 as a cloud overshadows the sun." 
 
 " AM ! thou rogue with a burnt father ! " cried a 
 third, " abscond and leave us, in the Prophet's name, 
 to enjoy our meal in peace." 
 
 " By my mother's honour I By the sword of my 
 father!" exclaimed Bahauder Hafiz, interposing his 
 voice potential, " you wrong him, Feroz Khan ; you 
 wrong the Bhula admeeX, and belie your own manhood, 
 by dreading the influence of his evil eye. Barikillah! 
 though he may be wicked himself, the proverb cannot 
 
 * God forbid! 
 
 f It is a proverb iu India that a man with one eye, or having 
 any obhquity of vision, must necessarily be a rogue. 
 X Respectable man.
 
 46 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 touch his taree-pot, which I dare swear contains 
 some right delectable tipple." 
 
 " Meddle not with it ! " exclaimed several voices at 
 once. " Touch it not, Hafiz, but send the Ghorum- 
 saug^ back to his wilderness, lest his evil eye should 
 lead us into peril and misadventure." 
 
 " Whose dog is he, for a pariah," cried Feroz Khan, 
 " to come hither to spit on our beards, and to make 
 asses of our fathers ? " 
 
 " Now by that ancient sage," cried Hafiz, piqued 
 into obstinacy by the dissuasions of his companions — 
 " by that ancient sage who first expressed the nectar 
 juice from the ruby grape, and showed us a short-cut 
 to happiness, I'll taste the beverage of this woodman 
 undaunted by his evil eye ! He comes so like those 
 jovial souls w^ho hang their bottles round their necks, 
 in laughter-loving Kaferistaun f , that may I go an 
 infidel out of the world but I'll hug his taree-pot, 
 even though he were the Ghoulee Beeahau % of this 
 infernal wilderness. Hither aou, jungle-icallah /" § 
 
 The stranger obeyed the summons with ready 
 
 * Scoundrel. 
 
 •\ In Kaferistaun, the great Baber informs us, the juice of the 
 grape is so favourite a beverage that every Kafir has a khig^ or 
 leathern bottle of wine, about his neck. 
 
 \ The Afghauns believe that solitudes and deserts are in- 
 habited by a lonely demon, called the Ghoulee Beeabau, or 
 Spirit of the Waste. 
 
 § Come hither, forester.
 
 THE JUNGLE-WALLAH. 47 
 
 alacrity, and filling a cup with his sparkling beverage, 
 Hafiz drained it to the dregs ; swearing as he smacked 
 his lips that, by his father's soul, the wine sealed with 
 the signet of Solomon- ibn-Daood, for the faithful in 
 Paradise, was pooch, trash, when compared to the 
 celestial liquor he had just quaffed. 
 
 So lofty a recommendation excited the curiosity, at 
 least, of the whole party ; and ere long the agreeable 
 doctrine of Hafiz, powerfully enforced as it was by 
 his example, produced such an effect on his compa- 
 nions as might have been expected from men more 
 than half inclined to break a resolution which inter- 
 fered with their enjoyment. They, accordingly, each 
 in turn, took copious draughts of the divine beverage, 
 loading the donor w4th compliments for his hospita- 
 lity ; until at length the taree-pot was exhausted of 
 its precious contents, the exhilarating effects of which 
 were every moment becoming more apparent in the 
 increasing jollity and vociferation of the merry 
 party. 
 
 The valour of the matchlock-men rose in proportion 
 with their merriment. Ere the woodman's chatty 
 was fairly drained of its contents, every man was a 
 host in himself; and feats of individual heroism were 
 recounted by all, which, however marvellous and im- 
 probable they might appear to the listeners, had, at 
 least, one devout believer in the hero of the tale 
 himself.
 
 48 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " Wallah Billah ! " * exclaimed Baliauder Hafiz, 
 elevating his voice above the general hubbub, " you 
 may boast of your deeds, but may I die an infidel if 
 I did not once cut off a rissala of Mahratta horse, 
 and with my single matchlock laid half of them on 
 the ground, forcing the remainder to surrender at 
 discretion." 
 
 '' I count not much on the merit of a combat with 
 human beings," interposed Feroz Khan ; " of such 
 trivial matters we can all of us boast our share : but, 
 Allah Kerim!] comrades, I was once surrounded in 
 the jungle by three ferocious tigers, each as big as a 
 young elephant " 
 
 *^ Talking of elephants," interrupted a gigantic 
 Ghiljie, " I'll tell you what happened to me once, 
 when hotly pursued by a wild buffalo " 
 
 " To Khodah /"J cried Feroz Khan, rather nettled 
 at being interrupted in his story, " a wild buffalo 
 is not an elephant." 
 
 " I knoAV that," said the Ghiljie, with a ferocious 
 look, " neither is a jackass the father of Aflatoon § ; 
 but I'll tell my story, nevertheless, Inshallah ! This 
 beast of a buffalo, comrades, pursued me across a 
 sandy desert, where not an object was to be seen but 
 the earth and sky. Finding that the brute was 
 gaining on me I jumped nimbly up a lofty tree " 
 
 * An oath equivalent to By God. j God is merciful. 
 
 I In God's name ! § Flato.
 
 THE JUNGLE-WALLAH. 49 
 
 ^' Derough ! deroughV^^ shouted Feroz Khan. 
 " How, in the Prophet's name, could you find a tree 
 in a sandy desert, where not an object was to be seen 
 but the earth and sky ? " 
 
 " Penah-he-KIiodah /"t cried the Afghaun, grasping 
 the hilt of his khunjur, " who dares to question the 
 honour of a Ghiljie ? " J 
 
 Half a dozen swords leaped from their scabbards at 
 this menacing question, as the respective friends of 
 the opponents felt themselves called upon to take 
 part in the affray ; but Hafiz throwing the oil of con- 
 ciliation on the stormy waters of their wrath, 
 exclaimed, — 
 
 " Toha ! Toba ! § La illalie-il-ullah ! what occasion 
 is there to pull beards about a buffalo, or an elephant 
 either, when we have nobler game in view ? Waste 
 not your valour, comrades, on one another, but listen 
 to the gallant proposition I am about to make." 
 
 " Bismillah ! Bismillah ! " cried several voices, 
 " listen to the bold Bahauder." 
 
 " You all know," resumed Hafiz, " that this gloomy 
 forest belongs to the notorious robber Kempe Goud." 
 
 "Belli! belli f^'' replied the Afghauns, ^*it requires 
 not the wisdom of Lokman to understand that." 
 
 * A lie ! a lie ! f God protect us ! 
 
 I The Gliiljie tribe of Afghauns are brave and warlike, but 
 have a sternness of disposition amounting to ferocity. 
 § For shame ! For shame ! 
 VOL. I. E
 
 50 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " They say," continued Hafiz, " that he is a regular 
 man-eater in battle: one who dyes his beard with 
 the blood of his enemies." 
 
 " The people in these parts," said another, " will 
 have it that he has been suckled by the devil ; or at 
 least that he is the devil's brother." 
 
 " His wit is so sharp," cried a third, " that Shy- 
 taun in person is not fit to be his father." 
 
 « Wallah, Billah, Tillah! " * exclaimed Hafiz, 
 " we'll teach the Banchoot dog to play at hide and 
 seek round our little fingers; for the Rajah, our 
 royal master, has set a reward on the scoundrel's 
 head." 
 
 " Three lacks of rupees ! " cried another, rubbing 
 his hands at the pleasing ideas it excited. ^' Mashallah ! 
 that would be a prize ! " 
 
 ^^ It is ours, comrades!" exclaimed Bahaudar 
 Hafiz, starting up in the fervour of his enthusiasm. 
 " Does not the Koran say, ^ The sword is his who can 
 use it, and dominion for him who conquers ? ' " 
 
 "Belli, belli!'' replied the Afghauns. "Blessed 
 be the name of the Prophet for giving us the dominion 
 over the infidels ! " 
 
 " Bismillah, irruhmen, irraheemiy cried Hafiz. 
 " Follow me then, and in the Prophet's name I will 
 insure you an easy conquest of these dogs without 
 
 * Three solemn oatbs, by the name of the Deitj. ' 
 
 ■f" In the name of God, the most merciful and compassionate I
 
 THE JUNGLE-WALLAH. 51 
 
 religion, these coavs and asses of Bheels. Mashallah ! 
 we'll soon bring this devil's brother to the fortunate 
 dust of the Rajah's footstool." 
 
 " Barikillah! Bismillah! InsJiallah!^^ echoed from 
 the whole party ; but their joyous shouts were in- 
 terrupted by a burst of discordant laughter, that 
 sounded like the unearthly merriment of a gratified 
 demon. Looking round to see whence it proceeded, 
 the astonished Afghauns beheld their new friend of 
 the taree-pot shaking his sturdy sides, and grinning 
 in ghastly glee, apparently at their expense. 
 
 One common impulse seemed to actuate the whole 
 band to chastise, if not altogether to annihilate the 
 presumptuous wretch ; and, springing to their feet, 
 they exclaimed tumultuously, ''Mar! Mar!"* as 
 they rushed, or rather staggered towards the object 
 of their vengeance, threatening to tear his naked 
 body piecemeal for his insolence. 
 
 The drunken motions of the Afghauns, however, 
 instead of alarming the woodman, seemed to inspire 
 him with fresh merriment ; and as the foremost ap- 
 proached in headlong haste to have the first blow at 
 the victim, he shifted his position, and by a dex- 
 terous trip laid him sprawling on the earth. Another 
 and another followed his example, but as they came 
 up in succession, shared a similar fate ; till the whole 
 
 * IviJllilm! killliim! 
 
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 52 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 body at length threw themselves upon the too-dex- 
 terous stranger to crush him at once and put an end 
 to his exploits. 
 
 A scene then ensued which baffles description. 
 The naked body of the Hindoo, being well rubbed 
 with cocoa-nut oil, eluded the grasp of his over- 
 anxious and tottering assailants ; and nature having 
 endowed him with uncommon strength and agility, 
 he fought his way through the disorderly throng, 
 gliding like a snake between their legs, or springing 
 like an antelope over their backs; upsetting some, 
 bestowing kicks and buffets upon others, and re- 
 turning into the midst of the melee, as if he enjoyed 
 the sport : while the blows aimed at him by the 
 drunken and bewildered Afghauns fell upon one 
 another, and occasioned a variety of single combats, 
 in which the general vengeance against the original 
 cause of discord was altogether forgotten. 
 
 Satisfied at length with the confusion he had 
 caused, the woodman now stood apart and viewed the 
 struo^ojllno; matchlock-men with a scowlino; brow. 
 Absorbed, apparently, in deep mysterious musings, 
 his eye glared on the disorderly crew, like the snake 
 whose deadly glance bewilders and fascinates ere it 
 strikes its prey. At length, when he beheld the 
 revellers overcome by the potations they had imbibed, 
 and exhausted by their fruitless exertions, extended 
 on the greensward in helpless imbecility, he slunk
 
 THE JUNGLE-WALLAH. 53 
 
 away and disappeared amidst the shady recesses 
 of the jungle ; while the temperate occupants of 
 the Durrumsalla, who had witnessed the singular 
 occurrence, retired disgusted at the riotous scene; 
 and gathering up their travelling incumbrances, pur- 
 sued their several ways through the intricacies of 
 the forest. 
 
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 54 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 CHAP. Y. 
 
 THE GOLDEN MOORUT. 
 
 While tlie doughty Afghauns were thus drowning 
 the cares of life in a merry bowl, the venerable Yakeel, 
 and the commandant of his guard of honour, were 
 sitting in social chat, somewhat retired from their 
 boisterous fellow-travellers, in a fine mango tope *, 
 impervious to the scorching rays of the sun ; and 
 the trees being in full bloom afforded them at once 
 an umbrageous and odoriferous canopy. 
 
 The young E-issaldar was sipping his coffee with 
 great gusto ; and as, according to the Persian proverb, 
 coffee without a chillum is meat without salt, he held 
 in his hand the long silken tube of his hookah, whose 
 silver tip he applied to his lips (displaying thereby 
 his jewelled fingers) in such expressive silence, that 
 every care of life seemed changed by the fragrant 
 steam of his fine Shiraz tobacco into visions of 
 waking bliss. At length he interrupted his agreeable 
 musings, and addressing his venerable companion, 
 said : — 
 
 " What is the name, I pray you, of yon stupen- 
 
 * A ijrove of trees.
 
 THE GOLDEN MOORUT. 55 
 
 dous rock, whose hoary head riven asunder, as if by 
 some tremendous earthquake, seems to shoot its 
 double pinnacle upwards even to the Seventh 
 heaven?" 
 
 The Brahmin, who for some time past had been 
 chewing his betel with a cloudy brow, and in a 
 thoughtful mood, was roused by the question, which 
 seemed to call up some painful recollections, and with 
 a boding sigh he replied : — 
 
 " Narayun I Narayun I * that fearful hill which 
 soars to what you are pleased to call *the Seventh 
 heaven,' and whose name alone is held in abomination 
 by our sacred race, is Savindroog, or the Rock of 
 Death." 
 
 " Penah-he-khodah ! " cried the Persian wath a 
 gesture of surprise, " then I see for the first time, a 
 very celebrated fortress, of which I have heard many 
 marvellous stories." 
 
 '' It is," continued the Brahmin, " the nest of as 
 fierce a band of plundering Bheels, as ever infested 
 the pathless jungle ; whose ruthless chief may Vishnu 
 keep within his hold until we have cleared his dreary 
 territories, or perchance we may rue the day we ever 
 entered them." 
 
 ^^ Allah Kerim /" exclaimed the Persian. " Then 
 all this gloomy forest is, I presume, the lurking-place 
 of Kempe Goud, the noted robber of the jungle." 
 
 * An apostrophe to the Deitj. 
 
 £ 4
 
 56 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " Bapre ! hapre ! " * cried the startled Brahmin, 
 " in the name of the deity whose title it is sacrilege 
 to pronounce, speak not thus so lightly of one whose 
 shadow alone is more terrific than the actual presence 
 of Kavana, the ten-headed giant of Lankadwipa." f 
 
 " Ai khodah Buzoorg ! " J exclaimed the Persian, 
 laughing at the fright of his nervous companion; 
 "most reverend Pundit, methinks you have small 
 cause for dread while I stand between you and this 
 marauder of the desert ; for though I quaff the flow- 
 ing bowl, and love the musky tresses of sportive 
 maidens, my ardent soul finds still greater pleasure 
 in the clash of arms than even in the enjoyment of 
 their cypress waists and tulip cheeks." 
 
 " That may well be," said the cautious Brahmin, 
 " but you are young, gallant Pissaldar, and lack ex- 
 perience, methinks, in matters of serious warfare." 
 
 " Masliallah ! Mashallah ! my years are few," re- 
 sponded the Persian, proudly drawing himself up 
 and expanding his chest, " my years are few, but 
 my experience is a thousand years old ; for since that 
 proud and festal hour, when the razor was first laid 
 upon my chin, amidst my native tribe §, all-glorious 
 war has been my trade, and never have I flinched 
 
 * Father ! father ! an expression of lamentation, 
 ■f" Ceylon. J Ah, great God ! 
 
 § Among the Toorki tribes, the time of first applying the 
 razor to the face is celebrated by a great entertainment.
 
 THE GOLDEN MOORUT. 57 
 
 from its most perilous behests : then fear not, should 
 the robber bring even myriads of his mountain scum ; 
 for with my gallant Rajapoots, and trusty Afghauns, 
 I shall quickly hunt them back into their shades 
 
 ^^ Jey Ganesal * Jey Dherrna Rajah !^^-\ said the 
 Brahmin, in a mild but half sarcastic mood. " Thrice 
 valiant khan, accept my gratitude and thanks for 
 your valorous intentions; but I fear you are little 
 acquainted with the wily nature of the foe you now 
 hold at defiance. The dogged pride and countless arts 
 of Kempe Goud, have long set at nought the mighty 
 power of our sovereign Rajah ; though hunted from 
 rock and dell like the tiger-cat, and chased over and 
 over to his jungle dens by the gallant Prince Kistna, 
 who, under the Rajah's authority, now wields the 
 avenging sword of Mysore." 
 
 " He is a gallant soldier I confess," said the Persian, 
 somewhat superciliously, " a perfect Rustum % in his 
 way; but after all he is nothing more than an 
 ignorant infidel, unacquainted with the great princi- 
 ples of war, as practised on the other side of the 
 Indus, where I have learned the glorious trade, and 
 acquired an immortality of fame." 
 
 " Wall ! Wall ! " said the Brahmin, smiling fur- 
 
 * God of wisdom. f God of justice.
 
 58 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 lively, " the name alone of so renowned a Sirdar is, 
 of itself, a tower of strength ; yet I humbly hope that 
 the thousand-titled deity* will clear our path w^ ay 
 from Kempe and his Bheels; for I, though all un- 
 worthy, am now the honoured bearer of a golden 
 moorutf to his awful shrine." 
 
 " A golden calf ! " cried the Persian, while his sides 
 shook wdth thouo-htless laus^hter. " A o-olden moorut, 
 quotha ! holy Prophet, ever wise and blest ! most 
 truly hast thou said that the w^orks of unbelievers 
 are vain as the watery vapour of the desert; w^hicli 
 often allures the eye of the traveller, but flies at his 
 approach from his parched and thirsty lips ! " 
 
 ^' Ram, Ram, Narayun!^'' % exclaim.ed the Pundit, 
 greatly shocked at this flippant sally. " The reproach 
 of your Prophet, youthful sir, does] not apply to the 
 children of Brahma ; for w^e are devout and steadfast 
 believers in the one true and eternal God." 
 
 " To Khodah ! " cried the Persian contemptuously, 
 " you may believe wdiat you like, but may I die an 
 infidel if you have got the right way of show^ing your 
 belief. Barikillah ! had your sagacity but taken the 
 sacred track to Mecca, to ofler up your orisons at 
 that holy stone, black w^th the kisses of innumerable 
 pilgrims, though originally white as the snowy 
 Caucasus, it would better suit your venerable years 
 
 * Vishnu. I An image, or idol. 
 
 \ An invocation of the Deity.
 
 THE GOLDEN MOORUT. 59 
 
 than this same idol pilgrimage in ^yhich we are now 
 so profanely embarked." 
 
 " Govincl ! Govind Deo / " * meekly replied the 
 Brahmin, "the light which illumines your faith as 
 well as mine, doubt not to be an emanation of the 
 deity, in whose all -just and impartial eyes all creeds 
 are equally wise and good." 
 
 " Wullah ! fVullah ! " cried the Persian scornfully, 
 " do you mean to say that your religion, with its 
 sixty millions of deities, is equal to that of the Prophet 
 (his name be ever blessed !) wdio received the Koran 
 from the Angel Gabriel himself, and read it at sight 
 though he had never before so much as learned his 
 alphabet!" 
 
 "I would represent in your service," said the 
 Brahmin mildly, " that my creed teaches me that all 
 religions emanate from the same source, being modi- 
 fied accordino; to the manners and customs of different 
 countries. And although, to keep us from vain wishes 
 and unholy thoughts, our weak and wavering sight 
 requires these symbols of the power divine, which are 
 rudely fashioned and of mortal mould, yet we, the 
 first-born of Brahma, hold this faith unshrinkingly, 
 that God is One and only One ! " 
 
 " AllLumd-ul-illah ! " exclaimed the Persian with a 
 haughty air, " it boots but little to discuss the rules 
 
 * One of the thousand names of A'ishnu.
 
 60 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 of faith which guide others, while mine is dangling 
 by my side. From Hara's cave the text was deliver- 
 ed to the Prophet (may his light shine eternally !) 
 ^ The sword is the key of hell and heaven ! ' and until 
 the Angel opens the gate of eternal life to my view, 
 the sword alone shall be the faith of Morad." 
 
 " A most sanguinary and unholy creed ! " ex- 
 claimed the Brahmin ; " for the eternal Author of all 
 forbids us to destroy that animal life which we can 
 neither give nor restore. And, if I mistake not, 
 your own prophet says, with his usual inconsistency, 
 ^ He who grasps a naked sword shall be wounded by 
 its edge ! ' " 
 
 " Allah Kerim ! " said the Persian impatiently, " a 
 truce with creeds, most reverend sage ; leave pole- 
 mics to pragmatical Moollahs and the Pundits of the 
 temple ; and tell me now, I pray thee, whose deadly 
 sin or maiden vow hath caused this wise embassy of 
 ours, through the gloomy territories of this incarnation 
 of Eblees ? " 
 
 " Neither girlish vow nor deadly sin," replied the 
 Vakeel, " has sent us hither most valorous Khan, but 
 fond maternal love to win a blessing on a darling 
 child. Ere long, the festival of spring will attract to 
 the court of Mysore the rulers of many lands, to seek 
 the lovely hand of the princess Lachema ; whose free, 
 unbiassed choice must name, amongst the crowd of 
 assembled suitors, for such ^''is the privilege of Raj-
 
 THE GOLDEN MOOEUT. 61 
 
 pootni dames, the object of her love, and the future 
 heir of the Kajah, whose only child she is." 
 
 " Wallah Billah ! There is a chance for a soldier 
 of fortune ! " exclaimed the Persian, playing with the 
 love-lock that dangled on his cheek. " Why should 
 not the sceptre of Mysore be wielded by a follower 
 of the Prophet ? " 
 
 " The prayer of the Maha Kanee," continued the 
 Brahmin with a smile, " that her lovely daughter may 
 be so guided in her choice as to become a happy bride, 
 I now, unworthy minister that I am, bear to the 
 sacred shrine of Yishnu ; where, on the lofty height 
 of Mailcottah, the god became incarnate, and built the 
 temple that bears his hallowed name." * 
 
 " Tajooh ! " t cried the Persian in a tone of ridicule, 
 " do you mean to say that your god became a man 
 and a bricklayer ? " 
 
 " Ganesa ! Ganesa ! " said the Brahmin, apostro- 
 phising the god of Wisdom, " recollect, young sir, 
 that your boasted prophet was a camel-driver : but 
 a truce, as you say, to creeds, and let me explain the 
 purport of my mission, which it is necessary that you 
 should be acquainted with. Still further to incline 
 
 * Mailcottah, in the Mysore, is one of the most celebrated 
 places of Hindoo worship, as having been honoured with the 
 actual presence of an Avatara, or incarnation of Vishnu, who 
 founded one of the temples. 
 
 f An exclamation of surprise.
 
 62 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 towards the princess the aspect of the heavenly powers, 
 I am commissioned to place a golden moorut on the altar 
 of the god ; and I am further charged with costly 
 presents to the sacred Brahmins of the temple." 
 
 ^^Afereen ! " * said the Persian scoffingly. " 'Tis the 
 same, I see, in all religions, heaven is only to be 
 won by bribing the doorkeepers." 
 
 " However that be," responded the Yakeel, " sm'e 
 I am that offerings never yet were laid on the altars 
 of the heavenly deities, in favour of a lovelier flower 
 than the Fawn-eyed Maid of Mysore." 
 
 " Barikillah ! her fame resounds on every side," ex- 
 claimed the gay soldier with amorous fervour ; " and 
 many a cup of Shlraz wine our royal Shah has filled 
 at Ispahaun to the charms of the ever-blooming 
 Lachema. I saw her once within her bower, when 
 chance had half withdrawn her veil ; and methousrht 
 she smiled on me favouringly — but let that pass. 
 She is, in truth, a flower of surpassing loveliness — a 
 pearl fit to be strung upon the royal chaplet — a rose- 
 bud Avith which the nightingale would seek to dwell ; 
 unrivalled since the days of Leila and Shireen."t 
 
 " Jey Sri Lachema ! % Jey Cama Deo ! " § cried the 
 Brahmin, rejoiced to hear the praises of his especial 
 
 * An expression of admiration. 
 
 f Heroines of Persian and Arabian romance. 
 
 % The goddess of beauty. § The god of love.
 
 THE GOLDEN MOORUT. 63 
 
 favourite. " Your Persian poets, gallant Sirdar, do 
 not sing amiss in their flowery language." 
 
 " She is an angel, — a Houri of Paradise, — a Perl- 
 roo*," continued the enthusiastic Persian. " She is a 
 moon fourteen days oldf?' — a perfect Chushnah Je- 
 mallee. % The leaf of her eye § is more tender than 
 that of the rose, — her locks are like the tendrils of the 
 vines of Paradise ! How well has Hafiz painted my 
 feelings in his immortal couplet : — 
 
 * If I could but captivate the heart of that Toorki 
 girl of Shiraz, I would give in exchange for the 
 black mole of her cheek all the riches of Samarcand 
 and Bokhara ! '" 
 
 " Jyadeva himself could not express it better," said 
 the gratified Brahmin ; " and I doiftt if much more 
 beautiful imagery can be found in the Gita Go- 
 vinda. " || 
 
 " In short," resumed the Persian, " to sum up her 
 attractions in a few words, she is worthy to grace the 
 harem of a Nawaub, and be his Ashervt Khmium, H 
 Even I, though in my native land, sage Oodiaver, I 
 must tell you, that many a fairer maid than she has 
 sought the honour of my love, even I would yield my 
 
 * Fairy-faced. 
 
 f An Eastern image for youtliful beauty. 
 % Fountain of beauty. § The eyelid. 
 
 II Songs of Jyadeva, a Hindoo poet of great celebrity. 
 \ Lady of delight.
 
 64 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 liberty as an offering at the shrine of your sweet 
 pagan queen." 
 
 " A princely offering ! " said the Brahmin, shaking 
 his head with cool contempt : " a mighty gift, indeed, 
 would be the honour of your love ! But let me warn 
 you, valiant sir, not to fix your soaring thoughts so 
 high : such wild remarks as these are unfair for you 
 to make, and unfit for me to listen to. Ai Bhavani 
 Devi ! * Talk in this light ribald tone of the peer- 
 less Fawn of royal Mysore, as a flower only fit to 
 grace the harem of a Khan ! And you that Khan ! 
 Young sir, be sage, and look not beyond your proper 
 sphere. Seek not to vie with monarchs, nor rashly 
 incur needless dangers, like the presumptuous son of 
 Aruna, who soared too high, and singed his pinions 
 with the sun ! " f 
 
 "Wallah, hillah, tillaht^^ rejoined the haughty 
 Persian, " you now only tempt me to the prize ; and 
 when this wise pilgrimage of ours to yonder grim 
 and holy deities shall be brought to a happy con- 
 clusion, Inshallah ! you may find that, though one of 
 Iran's wildest rovers, I know how to curb the rivalry 
 of the Begum's pagan swains. Nay, were she as 
 
 * Oil, goddess Bhavani ! 
 
 f Aruna (the dawn) is classically styled the charioteer of 
 Vishnu ; his two sons, Sumpaty and Juyatoo, attempting, in 
 imitation of their father, to reach the sun, the wings of the 
 former were burnt, and he fell to the earth. The legend bears 
 a singular resemblance to the fable of Icarus.
 
 THE GOLDEN MOORUT. 65 
 
 perilous to gain as the terrible cave of Jumsheed *, I 
 would freely brave the dangers of the exploit to win 
 the Paradise that awaits the successful adventurer." 
 
 " JVah ! icah ! Bapre ! hapre ! " exclaimed the Brah- 
 min, moved at once to pity and contempt, " hoAv vain 
 to talk to youthful vanity and pride ! If, doughty 
 sir, you thus give the reins to your overweening 
 fancy ; and dream, even in your most feverish slum- 
 bers, of what is so infinitely beyond your reach, Avhy 
 then, with equal reason, may yon croaking raven hope 
 to wed the bird of Paradise 1 " 
 
 " Soohhaun Ullah ! " t screamed the Persian, 
 starting to his legs, while fury gleamed from his eye- 
 balls, and his hand convulsively grasped the hilt of 
 his scimitar, " no man has ever yet made a corner- 
 stone of my beard in this fashion, with impunity. 
 Ahi ! thou man without a soul ! 'tis well thy feeble 
 age protects* thee from my burning wrath, or right 
 speedily thy withered trunk should feel the edge of 
 my avenging sword. But shrink not, poor craven, 
 from my vengeance. Though you are such a father 
 of asses, you have nothing to apprehend from me ; 
 for I pity your feebleness and respect your hoary 
 head, and I leave you to that lingering and contempt- 
 ible death which best becomes your false and foolish 
 religion." 
 
 * A cave near Candaliar, of which many marvellous accounts 
 are given. f Great God ! 
 
 VOL. L F
 
 66 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 CHAP. yi. 
 
 THE BHEEL'S cowrie. 
 
 It is sweet to rove the jungle when the year is in its 
 prime, to enjoy the exuberant beauty of the vegetable 
 world, and to listen, amidst the deep shadows of its 
 mighty recesses, to the varied notes of its feathery 
 denizens. It is pleasant at the early dawn to brush 
 the dew from its flowery valleys ; and when the 
 sun puts forth his power to seek shelter amongst the 
 pillared arbours of the sacred Burghut, whose self- 
 propagating vitality seems to afford a fit emblem of 
 .^eternity. 
 
 There the atimukta, or flower of spring, the 
 favourite plant of Sacontala*, and called by her 
 the " delight of the woods," puts forth its lovely and 
 thick-clustering buds, with an aromatic fragrance 
 that justly entitles it to the praises which Calidas, 
 Jyadeva, and other poets, delight in bestowing upon 
 it. There the loftiest trees of the forest are decked 
 with variegated flowers, which creep in a thousand 
 beautiful forms up their majestic stems: while the 
 graceful squirrel bounds from branch to branch, or 
 
 * The heroine of " The Fatal King," a beautiful Hindoo 
 flrama.
 
 THE bheel's cowrie. 67 
 
 peeps from the clustering foliage on the passing tra- 
 veller; and the cuckoo, called by the Hindoos " Love's 
 Messenger," her song being especially heard at the 
 season of spring, or Yasanti, (the friend of love) 
 deposits her eggs in the nest of the crow, too indolent 
 herself to bring forth her tender offspring. 
 
 Amidst the mighty labyrinth the sweet-scented 
 Areka palm rears Its slender and graceful stem ; while 
 the tendrils of the betel cling round it lovingly, and 
 put forth their pale green buds as if grateful for the 
 support. The broad-leaved plantain waves its rich 
 satin foliage on the breeze, and offers its delicious 
 fruit to the hungry wayfarer : the cooling tamarind, 
 the milky cocoa-nut, the nectareous mango, and the 
 gigantic pumbalo yield him a beverage unequalled by 
 art and unsurpassed in nature ; while innumerable 
 birds, of varied note and plumage, cheer him as he 
 explores the mazes of the jungle, with their simple 
 but ever grateful strains. Often, however, amidst 
 those sylvan shades, so favourable to solitary musing 
 and unsophisticated enjoyment, some lurking snake, 
 or beast of prey invades the traveller's repose ; or men, 
 still more savage, pollute the calm and silent forest 
 with scenes of rapine or of blood, that make luunanity 
 shudder at its own superior cruelty. 
 
 The Persian's wrath at the insult offered to Ills 
 vanity having at length subsided, he again addressed 
 his venerable companion In a tone of amity and
 
 68 SAYINDROOG. 
 
 forced respect; and besought him to explain the 
 nature of the fears he seemed to be so strongly- 
 imbued with, while passing through the territories of 
 Kempe Goud, though surrounded by so numerous an 
 escort. Thus entreated, the Brahmin (v/ho, if he 
 retained any resentment against the Persian, had the 
 policy to conceal his feelings,) shrugged his shoulders, 
 after casting a suspicious glance around him, and re- 
 plied as follows : — 
 
 '' Ai Bliavani Devi ! while we loiter in these w^oods 
 and wilds my spirits are oppressed with mysterious 
 awe and boding fear, for one must always tread the 
 jungle with the ear upon the shoulder ; and innume- 
 rable hordes of ruthless Bheels may, even now, be^ 
 lurking round us, unseen, and listening to every w^ord 
 we utter." 
 
 "Worthy Pundit," exclaimed the Persian wHth a 
 smile, " you do not say amiss in recommending 
 watchfulness and caution ; but your imagination 
 seems to be haunted by those terrific Bheels, as if 
 they were the very imps of Eblees himself" 
 
 "In truth are they," said the Brahmin, "the 
 children of Eblees, or Yama, as we designate the 
 ruler of Patala.* They are an impious and a cruel 
 race, who delight in every opportunity that presents 
 itself of evincing their hatred of our sacred name and 
 creed." 
 
 * The Infernal regions.
 
 THE bheel's cowrie. 69 
 
 " They have, doubtless," observed the Persian, 
 *' suffered some heavy calamity at your hands to inspire 
 them with this vindictive spirit." 
 
 " Wall ! wall ! none whatever," replied the Brah- 
 min ; "on the contrary, we seek to load them with 
 benefits, by conferring upon them our inimitable in- 
 stitutions, and subjugating their uncultivated territory 
 to our sacred and patriarchal sway." 
 
 ^^ Yah Kliodai! * call you that nothing ?" demanded 
 the Persian. " By the sacred tomb of Mecca ! such 
 kindness would inspire my own breast with a similar 
 gratitude to that of the Bheels." 
 
 " Ai wahi! By the oath of Gungajee !" said the 
 Vakeel, " they are an incorrigible race ; and nothing 
 short of extermination will ever convince them of the 
 evil of their ways." 
 
 ^^ Wallah BillahV exclaimed the Persian, "that 
 will be a very effectual remedy with the Soor-logiie.^^ \ 
 
 "Amidst the impenetrable fastnesses of the jungle," 
 continued the Brahmin, "they rove in licentious 
 freedom, shunning every description of peaceful 
 labour, and claiming from all travellers a tribute, 
 which they call the '• BheeVs Cowrie % ; ' and which, if 
 not willingly paid, too often leads to plunder and 
 bloodshed." 
 
 * Oh, God. 
 
 t Pig-people. A term of hatred and contempt, 
 t Cowries are small shells used as coin ; inliuitesimal parts 
 of a rupee, 
 
 F 3
 
 70 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " Bariliillali!^'' said the Persian, " such forest laws 
 may be just and equitable, for aught I know or care ; 
 but they can only affect peaceable wayfarers, wealthy 
 Shroffs, and money-loving Buniyas. To apply them 
 to men whose trade is war, and who are ever more 
 ready to give a blow than stand to be stricken, is 
 however a degree of folly which these lurking robbers, 
 I opine, will not be guilty of." 
 
 " That," said the Brahmin, " is a notion which we 
 must not allow to lull us into a fatal security. The 
 soul of yon jungle chief is as brave as ever stemmed 
 the tide of battle ; his breast is like the ocean tossed 
 by the angry gale of pride ; and, over and above his 
 claim to tribute on those who wend their dangerous 
 way through his territory, he is possessed -with the 
 uncontrollable demon of revenge against all w^ho 
 acknowledge fealty to Mysore." 
 
 " Bismillah ! you say well," rejoined the Persian. 
 " Revenge may indeed do much, being a just and a 
 powerful stimulant; and our holy Prophet himself 
 says ' Deliver mine enemies into my hands, O God ! 
 Let their bones be broken, and their blood be poured 
 out before me ! ' But I have yet to learn, short time 
 as I have been in your royal master's service, whether 
 the vengeance of Kempc Goud be well or ill- 
 founded ; or if it be likely to instigate him to such a 
 deed of madness, as an open and daylight attack on 
 troops of such acknowledged bravery and strict disci-
 
 THE BHEEL'S cowrie. 71 
 
 pline as those I have the honour to command. After 
 all, Mashallah! we count for something in this 
 affair." 
 
 " You shall judge," said the Vakeel, " for yourself, 
 by the history of this formidable marauder. In early 
 times, the ancestors of Kempe Goud spread their 
 predatory reign far over mountain, glen, and jungle ; 
 absorbing in their still-increasing dominions the petty 
 possessions of all the neighbouring chiefs and Polygars. 
 But frail is the dominion of man ; even in its most 
 palmy state, unstable and deceitful as the Saraub 
 of the desert. Of all the laughing valleys and 
 lofty hills which owned the imperious sway of his 
 sires, there remains but one solitary possession to 
 Kempe Goud ; the towers of Maugree and the em- 
 battled hill of Savindrooo; now alone acknowled2;e his 
 sway." 
 
 " In Allah's name ! " cried the Persian with viva- 
 city, " who committed this terrible havoc on the bold 
 monarch of the wilderness ? " 
 
 " Ram, Ram NarayunV exclaimed the Brahmin 
 proudly. " Whose dog is he, compared to the flower 
 of our Rajapoots, the Sword of the Hindoo faith? 
 Though Kcmpc's land is well fenced both by nature 
 and art ; though his heart is brave and his hand is 
 strong, and his wit keen and subtle as the cusa leaf *, 
 
 * The leaves of the cusa grass taper to a most acute and 
 evanescent point ; -whence the pundits often say of a very sharp- 
 
 F 4
 
 72 SAYINDROOG. 
 
 yet has he suffered many defeats from the arms of 
 Mysore, and often fled inglorious before the con- 
 quering steel of Prince Kistna." 
 
 " Barihillali ! Bismillah ! " interrupted the Persian 
 with enthusiasm. ^' That, indeed, is a leader you 
 may be justly proud of. Whose dog was Secunder 
 Roumee * compared to him ! What a splendid stud 
 of Toorki steeds does he possess ! what noble armour I 
 How gracefully does he fold his turban ! I question 
 much if Iran itself can show a more accomplished 
 rider in the Meidaun." 
 
 " Jey Bulla Jee ! all this he is," said the Vakeel, 
 with a sarcastic smile, " and more than this ; for he 
 is the Sun of battle ! the Sword of the state ! and the 
 Shield of our holy religion. When he led the squad- 
 rons of Mysore into this howling wilderness, the 
 Bheels vanished from before him like the morning 
 mist ; the lofty trees bent in homage to his feet, and 
 the virgin Droogs opened their arms to him as to a 
 welcome bridegroom; the sun looked yellow with 
 envy at his superior brightness ; the moon pale with 
 terror at the clash of his arms : the earth trembled 
 as he trod : — the heavens " 
 
 ^^ Khodali Buzoorg! Buss! Buss!''' cried the Persian 
 laughing, " a truce to your poetry, and discuss to 
 me, learned Pundit ! in plain mortal language, was 
 
 minded man, that his intellects are acute as the point of a cusa 
 leaf. 
 
 * Alexander the Great.
 
 THE bheel's coweie. 73 
 
 it really the gallant Kistna, wliom you figuratively 
 call the Sword of the state, and who, if fame speak 
 truly of certain passages between him and that moon 
 of beauty — that pearl of excellence, the Princess 
 Lachema — will ere long bear its sceptre also, — was 
 it he, I say, who wrought all this deadly mischief 
 ontheBheel?" 
 
 " Yea, " said the Brahmin, " he it was who, with 
 braver heart and wiser head even than the valiant 
 Kempe Goud, has despoiled him, one by one, of all 
 his hitherto-deemed impregnable fastnesses, and re- 
 duced him to liis last stake of Savindroog." 
 
 " Barikillah ! the arrow has hit the mark," said the 
 Persian, " and I wonder not at the bitterness of his 
 hatred. Mashallah! if his power be equal to his 
 malice, you have reason, venerable pundit, to dread 
 his approach." 
 
 "Wah! Wall! Bapre ! Ba-preV^ responded the 
 Brahmin ; " his power is terrific, and dreadful accounts 
 are given of his personal appearance. Some say he 
 has two heads; others assert he has four arms, and 
 that his eyes are balls of living flame: but these 
 may possibly be exaggerations of the ignorant and 
 vulgar." 
 
 " Very possibly," said the Persian with a sneer. . 
 
 " ToAvards us," continued the Brahmin, " the 
 Bheel's declining fortunes have filled his soul with the 
 bitterest hate ; and even for our lives I fear, should 
 he catch us napping in this delectable greenwood
 
 74 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 shade ; for quick of sight and swift of foot must he 
 be who hopes to shun the never-erring bow of the 
 Bheel." 
 
 " Yah Hyder! Yah Alii! '' cried the Persian with 
 more than his usual energy, " let this Pedr-ghoraza * 
 come with all his crew of outlaws and jungle knaves : 
 may their fathers burn eternally I By the beard of the 
 Prophet we'll quickly curb their presumptuous pride, 
 and send them howling back to their deserts ; while 
 at my saddle-bow I'll bring the grim head of their 
 chief as a trophy to our noble Rajah." 
 
 " Praised be the name of Vishnu! " said the Brahmin, 
 with ironical gravity; "but kuburdar], gallant Sirdar ! 
 take care you do not leave your own in the jungle." 
 
 ^^ AM! what words are these?" cried the Persian 
 haughtily. " Bismillah ! and if I do, is it not written 
 in i\\QKitahi AzizX, ' That whosoever falls in battle, his 
 sins are forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds 
 shall be resplendent and odoriferous as musk ; and the 
 loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of 
 ano;els and cherubim ? ' " 
 
 *' Would you not rather," asked the Brahmin, with 
 a sly chuckle, "be supplied, gallant Sirdar, with 
 those same wings before the battle than after ? " 
 
 * Father of hogs. f Take care ! 
 
 % The Koran ; which is generally designated among Mussul- 
 mauns by some honourable title, instead of its original name. 
 Those most commonly in use are Kelami Scheriff' (Xoble Dis- 
 course), and Kitabi Aziz, the Holy Book.
 
 THE bheel's cowrie. 75 
 
 " You may smile, worthy pundit," replied the 
 Persian, " and think, perhaps, I would shun the steel 
 of this marauder. But by the bones of my father ! 
 by the head of Ali ! you err in thinking so, for when 
 the hour comes what hand can stop its course ? What 
 saith the illustrious Hafiz? — 'The world is but a 
 caravanserai, where each man occupies his chamber 
 for a season ; ' and again — ' Every moment of pleasure 
 that you enjoy, count it gain : who can say what 
 will be the end of an event ? ' " 
 
 "This may be sound philosophy for the living," 
 said the Brahmin, " but I question its power to soothe 
 a single pang of death." 
 
 " Z« illahe-il'ullah ! ^^ cried the Persian proudly, 
 " should it even now be my happy lot to 
 drink the sherbet of martyrdom, and to enter that 
 shadowy gate which veils from mortal vision the 
 peerless land beyond the skies *, a moollah will be all 
 I shall require to read the Koran above my tomb, 
 that thus my martyred soul may fly within the sacred 
 crop of one of those green birds that eat the fruits of 
 Paradise." f 
 
 * A -well-educated Mussulmaun is very umvllling to say 
 directly that a man died. He uses some circumlocutory ex- 
 pression, which gives the fact by inference. 
 
 f " The souls of martyrs " (for such they esteem those who 
 die in battle against infidels), says Jallalodin, " are in the crops 
 of green birds, which have liberty to fly wherever they pleaae 
 in Paradise, and feed on the fruits thereof."
 
 76 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " The Paradise of your Prophet," said the Brahmin, 
 " is one of sensual pleasure, infinitely beneath that 
 absorption into the essence of the Deity which we 
 look forward to as our supreme reward." 
 
 '^ Penah-be-Khoclah! what is your absorption, as you 
 call it," retorted the Persian, " but total annihilation, 
 as it were ? Barikillah ! the cold fancy of you infidels 
 never dreamt of such a thing as our Prophet's Para- 
 dise ; the stems of whose shady trees are gold — 
 whose earth flings a musky odour around — where 
 rubies and sparkling gems are the pebbles of its crystal 
 springs, and where the heavenly songs of Israfil wrap 
 the soul in ecstasy." 
 
 " And how do you hope to be employed," de- 
 manded the Brahmin with assumed naivete, " in that 
 delectable place ? " 
 
 ^^ Allah Hqfiz 1^'' cried the enthusiastic Mussul- 
 
 maun, " there I shall kiss those musky maids whose 
 
 youth and beauty spring for ever, while I quaff the 
 
 rosy wine that's sealed for the lips of true believers 
 
 alone : — 
 
 " ' Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, 
 And bid thy pensive heart be glad, 
 
 Whate'er the frowning zealots say ; 
 Tell them their Eden cannot show 
 A stream so clear as Rocnabad, 
 A bower so sweet as Mosellay.' * 
 
 With such a heaven as this in view, think you I 
 * Ilafiz, ode 22.
 
 77 
 
 would shun the pagan sword? By Allah and the 
 twelve Imaums! I wish the robber chief were 
 here." 
 
 " Then have thy wish ! " cried a voice in startling 
 accents by his side : " behold him here, with the un- 
 erring bow of his sires to claim ' the Cowrie of the 
 Bheel!'"
 
 78 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 CHAP. yii. 
 
 THE JUNGLE CHIEF. 
 
 Struck with the stern accents which so unexpectedly 
 realised his half-boastful wish, the Persian with a bound 
 sprang up from his recumbent attitude, and gazed 
 on the sudden apparition with a mingled look of asto- 
 nishment and alarm. With a mechanical motion he 
 laid his hand upon his scimitar ; though palsied, as it 
 were, by some undefinable emotion, it lay awhile 
 inactive on the hilt, as with an anxious and rapid glance 
 he scanned the object that stood before him, whose 
 graceful but athletic frame, light and immovable as 
 the stem of the palmyra, seemed better calculated to 
 cope in amorous dalliance with some lady fair than to 
 wield a falchion, or to bend a bow in anger. 
 
 There was, in fact, nothing in what he beheld to 
 raise either awe or dread in the Persian's breast ; and, 
 though his fertile imagination had drawn an image of 
 the Bheel, of the form and hue which Eblees stamps 
 upon his ruthless slaves and sworn bondsmen, yet now 
 before him freely and fearlessly stood a form endowed 
 with such almost feminine softness and grace, that he
 
 THE JUNGLE CHIEF. 79 
 
 looked like some elfin guardian of the wood, or some 
 harmless sylvan deity. 
 
 The costume of the stranger consisted of a quilted 
 vest, a sash and turban, all of dazzling whiteness, 
 Avithout spot or w^rinkle. A chuddah, or muslin 
 shawd thrown over his shoulder, hung down in grace- 
 ful folds ; and on his right arm he wore a gold locket, 
 set with brilliants, which contained his tauivee, or 
 talisman. His legs, from the knee downward, were 
 naked, displaying the most perfect symmetry ; and 
 light, handsome sandals were laced upon his feet, de- 
 corated with golden knobs and tassels of the same 
 metal. 
 
 The Bheel was neither short nor tall, but of that 
 medium size best calculated to cope with toil or 
 danger, in the predatory life to which he was accus- 
 tomed. With 2;raceful ease he stood leanins: on his 
 unstrung bow, more like a simple hunter of the 
 jungle, than the grim and deadly enemy of Mysore ; 
 and though a buckler on his arm, a tulwar slung by 
 golden links at his side, and a quiver, stored with 
 feathery deaths, dangling at his back, might afford 
 some hint of his dangerous profession, yet he looked 
 so mild in mien and feature, and bore so many brace- 
 lets of glittering gold on his wrists and sinewy arms, 
 that few could imagine either fraud or mischief lurked 
 beneath so simple an exterior. 
 
 The venerable Vakeel, who had also risen from his 
 reclInlnG: attitude at the fearful summons, with all the
 
 80 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 celerity that his years and dignity permitted, gazed on 
 the handsome Bheel with as much awe as the Persian, 
 though he was probably less surprised at the audacity 
 of bis intrusion ; while the paleness of his featm^es, 
 and a slight shudder which passed through his frame, 
 indicated the terror that had taken possession of his 
 breast. A variety of conflicting emotions kept him 
 mute for a few moments ; but the Persian, more ac- 
 customed to yield to the first impulse of his passions, 
 and forming from the Bheel's appearance any thing 
 but a favourable opinion of his manhood, exclaimed in 
 haughty accents : — 
 
 " By the musky breath and laughing eyes of the 
 Hoor-ul-uyun* , who are formed for the delight of true 
 believers, this Kempe Goud, if such he be, looks more 
 fitting for the dalliance of the Haram than the rough 
 encounters of the field. But be he man or Avoman — 
 angel or demon — T swear by the Prophet, whose name 
 be ever reverenced, that I will bind him captive with 
 his own srolden tas-s and tassels ; even were he fur- 
 nished with as many wings as the angel Gabriel f to 
 flee from the punishment that awaits him." 
 
 As he uttered this threat, the fearless Persian 
 
 * The voluptuous girls of Paradise, called from tbeir large 
 black eyes '■'• Tloor-nl-uyiin'''' (or with antelope's eyes), are 
 created not of clay, as mortal women are, but of pure musk, 
 
 f Gabriel is said to have appeared to Mahommed, on the 
 night he made his journey to heaven, with no less than six 
 hundred wino-s !
 
 THE JUNGLE CHIEF. 81 
 
 drew forth his bright Khorassan blade*, of the true 
 Akbaree steel, the water of which could be traced, 
 like a skein of silk, down its entire length. It was 
 much curved, light, and well-balanced, and the metal 
 was so pure that it tinkled like a bell ; for young 
 Morad was a Saliib Shumsheer^ of the first preten- 
 sions, and particularly prided himself on the excellence 
 of his weapons. With unbounded confidence in his 
 own prowess, and equal contempt for his jungle ad- 
 versary, he was now about to advance on the smiling 
 and still motionless Bheel, when the Brahmin in- 
 terposed, and seizing him by the arm exclaimed, with 
 his usual apostrophe to the god of prudence, — 
 
 " Ganesa ! Ganesa ! rash youth, forbear : blind as 
 you are to the fate you tempt, and which all others 
 would gladly shun, yet learn what is due to rank 
 and age, and yield precedence to one more qualified 
 to parley w-ith this renowned and mighty chief. 
 After all, the chosen envoy of our puissant Kajah 
 goes for something in this conference." 
 
 The Persian, thus rebuked, yielded the post of 
 honour to the sage ; who, before he ventured to 
 approach the Bheel, drew his slippers from his feet, 
 and performed, with most elaborate formality, the 
 anjall, or respectful obeisance. His head was slightly 
 
 * The blades of Khorassan are particularly prized by the 
 Persians, who consider them superior to those of Damascus. 
 + Master of the sword. 
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 82 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 bowed, and the palms of his hands brought together, 
 and raised laterally to the middle of his forehead, the 
 tips of his thumbs only coming in contact with it : 
 then, having advanced a step or two, he thus broke 
 silence in an humble and deprecating voice : — 
 
 "Thrice valiant Turioee!* In us, who are less 
 than the least of your Highness's poor slaves, you 
 see no merchants laden with potent gold, or pearly 
 treasures from the shores of Lankadwipa " 
 
 " But soldiers of fortune," interrupted the Persian, 
 ^^ determined, Insliallah! on all occasions, to keep 
 what we have, and take what we can get." 
 
 " Wall ! Wall ! Baj)re ! Baj)re ! " cried the Brah- 
 min, in a tone of alarm, " not so, good Sirdar ; not so, 
 valiant Kempe. Poor pilgrims to the holy shrine 
 of Mailcottah, we have made bold to traverse your 
 fruitful territory, and humbly implore a Diisfukf 
 from your gracious hand to aid us in our holy quest." 
 
 ■*' And you shall have it," replied the Bheel with 
 much dignity, while a smile of doubtful character 
 stole over his handsome features. " Old man, your 
 prayer has met from us a ready acquiescence ; and 
 order shall be given for your safe and speedy conduct 
 when you pay the usual tribute, which none may 
 evade, the ' Cowrie of the Bheel.' " 
 
 " No tribute ! " cried the Persian, impetuously. 
 " By the sacred shade of Caaba, not a cowrie, nor the 
 
 * Title of the Bheel chiefs. f A passport.
 
 THE JUNGLE CHIEF. 83 
 
 shadow of a cowrie, shall be paid in the way of tribute, 
 while I am present to hunt this tiger to his lair. 
 Therefore " 
 
 But ere he closed his speech the Brahpain again 
 interposed, and with meek imploring look thus ad- 
 dressed the jungle chief; having first renewed his 
 obeisance, covering his hands with the sleeves of his 
 mantle, and evincing other marks of high respect : — 
 
 '^ Maliaraj ! your demand is just, and shall be 
 complied with: but most humbly do we hope that 
 power and mercy hold equal balance in the hands of 
 him who rules, these fertile territories." 
 
 " Doubt it not, old man," said the Bheel mildly ; 
 "of the mercy I myself receive my enemies cannot 
 object to an equal measure." 
 
 ^^ Ram, Ram Narayun! praised be the name of 
 Vishnu !" devoutly ejaculated the Brahmin, who 
 began to fancy that his eloquence had produced a 
 happy effect. " This being the case, we, your un- 
 worthy servants and penitent pilgrims, pray you to 
 name the trifle that will content you ; that so we 
 may, from our very limited ability, seek to acquit us 
 of this just and necessary obligation, and that your 
 Highness may be pleased to send us on our way re- 
 joicing to the altar of our deity." 
 
 A slight curl of contempt marked for an instant 
 the features of the Bheel, at this very politic speech 
 of the sage Oodiaver ; but, as if he disdained even 
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 84 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 this fleeting expression of his feelings, he resumed 
 his placid look, while he replied in a cold ironical 
 tone, as follows : — 
 
 "For myself, venerable pilgrim, I profess to be 
 altogether free from j)ride and avarice, which are, 
 in fact, the failings of pampered menials and dri- 
 velling dotards : I therefore limit my own demand to 
 yon Moorut of pure gold, which you design for the 
 gaudy temple of Vishnu, but which I shall place at 
 the footstool of Mahadeo, the only powerful God." 
 
 " Praises be to the triune Deity ! " ejaculated the 
 Brahmin with solemnity. 
 
 " Then be it known to your sagacity," continued 
 the Bheel, "that I have lately married a young and 
 lovely maiden of Kajasthan, who longs amazingly to 
 go in state, as becomes a royal Hajpootni bride : I 
 therefore accept, as your free and munificent gift to 
 her, yon stately elephant, with his gilded howdah 
 and his housings of gold." 
 
 " Glory be to the Thousand-titled Deity !" meekly 
 responded the Brahmin. 
 
 "Furthermore," said Kempe, with imperturbable 
 gravity, " I beg to represent in your service, that all 
 those rare and costly presents committed to your care 
 for the idle and luxurious Brahmins of Mailcottah, I 
 shall spare you the trouble of conveying any farther ; 
 it being my intention to bestow them upon Rungapa, 
 my venerable Bhaut, who sings the praises of my
 
 THE JUNGLE CHIEF. 85 
 
 gallant followers, and offers up their incense at the 
 shrine of Doorga." 
 
 " God is [great, just, and merciful," devoutly re- 
 SjDonded the pious Vakeel. 
 
 " I have little else to say," continued the Bheel 
 with the most provoking nonchalance, " seeing that 
 your camels and your Arab steeds are, of course, the 
 fair spoils and capture of my hardy band ; except, 
 indeed, that I may add, in guerdon of their fidelity to 
 me, whatever else they may take a fancy to about 
 your persons or your equipages." 
 
 During the delivery of this very moderate speech 
 the Vakeel stood listening with an appearance of 
 profound respect, occasionally venting a pious ejacu- 
 lation, as if there was nothing in such wholesale 
 pillage that could excite a moment's uneasiness or 
 displeasure : but he could not help muttering to 
 himself at the conclusion the following stanza from 
 that celebrated ethic poem, entitled the " Moha Mud' 
 gara^^ or Mallet of Delusion. 
 
 " The body is tottering ; the head grey ; the 
 mouth toothless ; the delicate staff trembles in the 
 hand which holds it; still the flagon of covetous- 
 ness remains unemptied." 
 
 Brought up in that school of dissimulation and self- 
 control Avhich renders the Brahmin an apparently 
 impassible object in all cases of emergency, the sage 
 Oodiaver, while acquiescing, to all appearance, in the 
 
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 86 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 total plunder of his camp, was, in reality, casting 
 about in his politic mind how he could circumvent 
 the Bheel, by some stratagem, or tour (Tadresse, 
 which suited better with his pacific disposition than 
 an open appeal to arms. The Persian, on the con- 
 trary, who looked on all wily delays and htigious 
 shuffling with characteristic contempt, impetuously 
 exclaimed : — 
 
 " Now by that holy tomb which hangs at Mecca 
 in the air, supported by the invisible wings of myriads 
 of angels ! this juggling Bheel may well deride our 
 calm and cowardly forbearance ; for he thinks, of 
 course, that this precious embassy of ours is formed 
 of sneaking priests and chattering Pundits, who shed 
 no blood, and quake with the infirmities of age." 
 
 " Ai Ganesa ! patience, good Sirdar ! " cried the 
 Brahmin, in a fright at the lively manner of his 
 fellow-traveller, " patience, I say, and let me discuss 
 this matter with the renowned Kempe : after all, we 
 are somebody in this transaction." 
 
 ^' Most potent sir ! " continued the Persian, heedless 
 of the interruption and addressing the Bheel in a 
 tone of irony - — " most facetious Kempe, who stand- 
 est there alone like a statue carved in wood or marble, 
 and openest thy oracular lips to this wise Pundit and 
 myself as if we formed part of thy ragged retinue " 
 
 " Ram, Ram Narayun ! " cried the Brahmin in a 
 deprecating voice : " of a verity you defame the gal-
 
 THE JUXGLE CHIEF. 87 
 
 lant followers of his Highness, the splendour of whose 
 equipments is proverbial in these parts." 
 
 "We humbly thank your Eoyal Highness," resumed 
 the Persian, " for thus disposing of our freight, and 
 saving us the trouble of seeking yonder holy fane ; for 
 well I ween that our appearance there, unaccompanied 
 by these same costly presents, might prove equally 
 displeasing to the grim god and the portly Brahmins 
 of that blest abode." 
 
 "Bapre! Bapre!'' exclaimed the Vakeel, much 
 shocked at the impiety of the Persian, " I must en- 
 treat you, gallant Sirdar, to have some reverence 
 for the Deity, and some respect for the sacred priests 
 of the temple." 
 
 " May it please your Bheelship," continued the 
 scoffing Mussulmaun, " to grant me a reply to one 
 simple question. You have kindly disposed of our 
 goods and chattels, viz. one little golden divinity of 
 rare and ingenious manufacture ; item, an elephant 
 richly accoutred, with sundry camels, horses, bales of 
 merchandise, &c. &c. &c. Novf, in the name of Allah 
 and his prophet, whose name be eternally blessed ! 
 what is it you intend to leave us ? " 
 
 " Your lives, false pilgrim ! " cried the Blieel, with 
 a sudden outburst of fury that startled even the hardy 
 Mussulmaun — " your lives, dog of jNIahommcd ! And 
 thank the forbearance of the keen avenging steel that 
 gleams in my deadly grasp, that you are even thus 
 
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 88 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 permitted to withdraw your hateful presence from my 
 ruined land." 
 
 Then down he threw his bow upon the earth, and 
 forth from its scabbard flew his glittering tulwar, 
 flashing like lightning from the angry heavens, across 
 'the dazzled eyes of the Persian and his venerable 
 companion ; while, at the well-known signal, the ter- 
 rific blast of the CoUary horn * flung its wild un- 
 earthly peals on a thousand echoes through the forest, 
 piercing the silent jungle, and calling forth its invisible 
 inhabitants, as if the last trump had sounded for the 
 day of doom. 
 
 Far and near, and in all directions round the 
 devoted travellers, wild and savage yells, clashing 
 arms and echoing horns replied to the fatal summons, 
 as if the very fiends of hell were engaged in deadly 
 combat : and ere the dismal sounds had subsided, forth 
 rushed from the jungle hollows and rocky dells, a 
 numerous band of grim and ferocious Bheels, yelling 
 their war-cry, " Jey Mahahali! Jey Bhavani Devi! " 
 strikino; their swords asjainst the iron bosses of their 
 shields, and twanging their bow strings, as if impatient 
 
 * The war trumpet of the Bheels. It is made of copper, 
 about three feet long, and bent into a semicircle. The tube is 
 small at the mouth-piece, and increases in circumference to the 
 end, whence the sound proceeds. Its notes, wild as the people 
 by whom it is used, have a powerful and singular effect on the 
 mind, especially when heard amongst the stupendous crags of a 
 droog, or the savage recesses of a jungle.
 
 THE JUNGLE CHIEF. 89 
 
 to give immediate proofs of tlieir tinrivalled skill in 
 arclieiy. 
 
 Witli the activity of the tiger cat, these savage 
 denizens of the wilderness sprang , forward and 
 encircled their gallant chief, prepared, without 
 question or demur, to shed the blood of whatever 
 victim he should doom to death : and first and boldest 
 of the band was the youth Yega, who, but a few hours 
 before, had stood meek and imploringly before the 
 Yogie in the Durrumsalla, seeking to pry into his 
 future fate, and to learn the issue of his unpromising 
 love-suit. But now, with flushed brow and eye on 
 fire, he looked the heau-ideal of the god of war ; cheer- 
 ing his companions to the onslaught, and striking his 
 glittering sword upon his shield, impatient for the 
 fight. Beside him also frowned the one-eyed Bheel 
 who had so liberally bestowed the contents of his 
 taree-pot on the tipsy Afghauns at their mid-day 
 feast. In rude and savage panoply he stood like the 
 demon of mischief; while from his fierce and threat- 
 ening eye, whose restless ball rolled madly in its 
 socket, a fiendish fury gleamed upon the travellers, 
 as though he sought, like the basilisk, to wither with 
 its glance alone the powers of all who came within its 
 deadly influence.
 
 90 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 THE CHARUN. 
 
 Aghast with uncontrollable terror, the Brahmin 
 stood mute and motionless : not all the dignity of his 
 pre-eminent Caste — not all the stoical self-control 
 which formed the ground-work of his education and 
 the unvaried practice of his life — was proof against 
 the united terrors that now assailed his sight and 
 hearing, and took undisputed possession of all his 
 faculties. Every moment seemed to be his last ; and 
 the small portion of animal courage with which 
 nature had endowed him quailed before the actual 
 horrors of the scene, unsupported by that moral for- 
 titude which so often effectually supplies its place. 
 
 Youth, and the profession of arms, to which he had 
 been accustomed from his earliest manhood, imparted 
 a superiority over the Brahmin to the bearing of the 
 Persian; but even he felt an unaccountable chill 
 strike to his heart, when he beheld the ferocious as- 
 pects of liis numerous opponents, and knew the un- 
 extinguishable hatred of their leader to all who wore 
 the livery of Mysore. 
 
 It was, in fact, enough to damp the ardour of a
 
 THE CHARUN. 91 
 
 soul cast in the sternest mould of nature, to see those 
 wild and ruthless marauders darting from thicket, 
 grove, and glen ; dropping from the leafy trees, and 
 springing to their feet from the tangled and shrubby- 
 ground, as if the fabled and monstrous production of 
 warriors from the teeming earth, the invention of 
 a rude and early age, had now indeed been realised. 
 
 At length the venerable Oodiaver recovered pre- 
 sence of mind sufficient to make another effort on the 
 stern nature of the Bheel ; whom, with his head bowed 
 low, and in humble accent, he again ventured to 
 address as follows : — 
 
 "Riches and power, O valiant Chief! are fleeting 
 and transitory; or, as the Moha Mudgara so well 
 expresses it • — ' As a drop of water moves tremulous 
 on the lotus leaf, thus is human life inexpressibly slip- 
 pery.' Knowing this, as you doubtless do, why will 
 you direct your steps to the path of violence and spoil, 
 which must inevitably lead to the fiery gulf of Patala, 
 where Yama, the stern judge of the dead " 
 
 " Cease your gabble," cried the Bheel in stern ac- 
 cents ; " a truce to the gibberish of your fawning and 
 deceitful race, whom I never see, or even think of, 
 that blood is not ready to gush from my eyes, so 
 deadly are the wrongs and injuries I have endured at 
 your hands." 
 
 " Ai Ganesa ! Ai Dherma Rajah ! " exclaimed the 
 Brahmin, with the most amiable simplicity, " what
 
 92 SAYINDPwOOG. 
 
 words are these ? And why should my lord inflame 
 his wrath against this less than the least of his ser- 
 vants^ from whom the Hiizoor has never yet sustained 
 either scathe or scandal ? " 
 
 " If not from thee, old man/' cried the Bheel, " at 
 least from thy fellow-slaves and sycophants. Ma- 
 hadeo ! Mahadeo ! " he continued, bitterly gnashing 
 his teeth, " until your feeble hands can bend the bow 
 of steel which forms the sceptre of Cartikeia — until 
 you can untwine the brazen folds of Sesha, the many- 
 headed snake whose curling volumes support this solid 
 earth — or until, from the back of the giant tortoise, 
 you can lift your holy Mount Meru, you never can 
 obliterate from my memory the bitter, long, and 
 bloody debt I owe your Prince for woes unnumbered ; 
 the pangs of which have never ceased to gnaw my 
 heart's inmost core, asleep or awake, for a single In- 
 stant. But my revenge " — and here the Bheel burst 
 into a horrible and frenzied laugh — '^my revenge, 
 old dotard, though it may have smouldered for a time, 
 still burns with all its fury in my breast." 
 
 Abashed, the Brahmin held his peace, in a mourn- 
 ful but still ruminating mood ; while the Persian, 
 yielding to the suggestions of his martial pride, ex- 
 claimed in haughty accents : — 
 
 " F«/i Hyder! Yah Alii! why stand we idly 
 prating here, swallowing dirt by the maund, while 
 my gallant troops are at hand to scatter this insolent
 
 THE CHARUIS'. 93 
 
 marauder's ragged crew? Sound trumpet, hoi 
 Shumslieer-hu-dust ! to arms ! to arms I " 
 
 Quick as the order was issued, the brazen throat of 
 the trumpet pealed forth the note of battle ; and ere 
 its echoes had mingled with the breeze, the gallant 
 Eajapoots came rushing to the summons : but they 
 came unaccompanied by those martial steeds which 
 constituted the main strength of their body ; and 
 whose absence, on such an occasion, was altogether 
 unaccountable. Again and again the trumpet's shrill 
 blast rent the air, in a vain and fruitless summons of 
 the Afo'haun matchlock-men : to the astonishment of 
 the Persian, and the dismay of the Brahmin, not a 
 man of them was visible. 
 
 " Ay^ call your troops," said the Bheel, while his 
 sides literally shook with scornful laughter ; " call 
 your troops, hound of Mahommed ! Your trusty 
 matchlock-men, filthy infidels ! are drunk and asleep 
 in yonder grove of spreading mangoes : this gallant 
 warrior by my side bestowed his toree-pot upon them, 
 having first prepared it for their especial enjoyment. 
 Its wondrous powers have lulled them into visions of 
 bliss, and their weapons, now in better hands, will 
 speedily be turned upon yourselves." 
 
 " Vishnu preserve us ! " exclaimed the Brahmin in 
 a quavering voice. " Here is a plot hatched by a 
 Jungle-wallah that would do honour to the wisdom 
 ofGunputty!"* 
 
 * A name of Gancsa.
 
 94 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 He recollected, however, that the first and funda- 
 mental maxim in the '^ Pancha tantra*'''' inculcates the 
 sound wisdom of procrastination, whether with or with- 
 out a reasonable hope, in all cases of difficulty, because 
 by gaining time we gain the chance of success ; and 
 •he resolved scrupulously to adhere to so wise a pre- 
 cept, by interposing every obstacle, possible and im- 
 possible, to the anticipated catastrophe. 
 
 " You may call your glittering troopers," continued 
 the Bheel tauntingly, " and you see they but half 
 obey your call ; for, while your idle Bajapoots dozed 
 upon their mid-day meal, my ever-watchful Bheels 
 crept on their peaceful slumbers, and loosed their 
 gallant chargers, who now snort in freedom, and 
 wildly tossing their beautiful heads, fly through the 
 mazy jungle with the speed of antelopes, to sport and 
 gambol with my Toorki mares." 
 
 " Hurri bole ! Hurri hole I " f cried the Brahmin 
 with a groan, " we are taken in the toils, and delivered 
 over, like innocent antelopes, to the fury of the tiger." 
 
 " Nay, more than this," cried the chief with a fe- 
 rocious laugh, " false pilgrims ! who come into my 
 ruined land with smiling brows but treacherous 
 hearts ! learn that my brave and crafty Bheels 
 have steeped the grain wdth which your elephant was 
 fed in potent arrack ; and now, even now, he tramples 
 
 * A book of Apologues, perhaps the oldest in the world. 
 I An invocation to Vishnu.
 
 THE CHARUN. 95 
 
 under foot your ruined camp, and scatters your panic- 
 struck followers like dust before the blast of the mon- 
 soon. Thus you can neither fight nor run away — 
 then yield, or by the gods you die ! " 
 
 While yet he spoke a fearful shout echoed from the 
 tents of the Vakeel ; and the shrill frantic cry of the 
 elephant rose awfully on the air, as he dashed head- 
 long in his drunken mood amongst the terrified and 
 shrieking followers of the camp. 
 
 " Narayun ! Narayun ! " mentally ejaculated the 
 Brahmin, trying to rouse himself for one last desperate 
 effort ; " my boding fears were not in vain, and the 
 nervous twitching of my eye this morning should 
 have proved to me that the day was unpropitious. 
 Nay, I now recollect, when too late, that I sneezed 
 but once, while performing my ablutions ; and though 
 I took especial care to cross the threshold with the 
 lucky foot foremost, I must confess that I very nearly 
 stumbled in doing so. But though the toils are 
 spread around us, one feeble hope of safety still re- 
 mains, and the arm of Vishnu may yet be elevated in 
 our favour." Then raising his voice he cried, " Come 
 forth, thou sacred Charun, to our aid, and do thy 
 holy office with the Bheel ! " 
 
 At the sound of the Brahmin's voice there issued 
 from a neighbouring thicket a being of unearthly ap- 
 pearance and ghastly frame, whose wild and haggard 
 look and glittering eye few could gaze upon unap-
 
 96 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 palled. Bound his lank and hollow waist a ragged 
 cummer-band was loosely tied, between whose greasy- 
 folds the horn hilt of a dagger was visible : the rest 
 of his body was naked. From his head his matted 
 elf-locks descended in wild confusion ; some twisted 
 like ropes, and tied round his hollow temples, and 
 others trailing on the ground. His beard reached 
 nearly to his knee, tangled, matted, and filthy. His 
 bending figure, gaunt and stark, was powdered with 
 ashes; and his withered limbs displayed many a 
 lasting token of direful penance by fire and steel. 
 
 This wretched being, who was introduced to the 
 reader in the first chapter, as the oracle of the love- 
 sick Yega, and who could scarcely be said to exist, so 
 worn and emaciated was his frame, bore, to aid his 
 lingering steps, a mystic branch of the peepul tree, 
 sacred to Siva, which is said to shelter beneath its 
 leaves the demons devoted to that destroying deity ; 
 and strikins; at intervals a little brazen o'ono; which 
 he held suspended from his wrist, he called perpetually, 
 in a doleful and quavering tone, on the awful name 
 of Mahadeo. 
 
 One of the peculiar features of the Hindoo religion 
 is the weakness of investing certain pretenders and 
 religious ascetics with supernatural attributes, in 
 virtue of their secluded lives and voluntary self-in- 
 fliction of extraordinary abstinence and frightful 
 penance.
 
 THE CHAEUN. 97 
 
 Amongst these numerous mendicants tlie Charuns 
 bear an elevated rank and are held in peculiar 
 sanctity. According to their fabled origin, it is 
 said that Mahadeo first created the Bhauts, or 
 sacred minstrels, to attend his lion and bull ; but the 
 former killing the latter every day, the god was put 
 to -infinite trouble and vexation in creating new ones. 
 He therefore formed the Charun, equally devout as 
 the Bhaut, but of bolder spirit, and gave him charge 
 of these favourite animals. The influence of the 
 Charun was, therefore, very great amongst a people 
 so ignorant and superstitious as the Hindoos ; and it 
 was usual for merchants or travellers to hire one to 
 protect them on their journeys, the sanctity of their 
 character being generally sufficient for that purpose. 
 If robbers appeared, the Charun interposed his ghostly 
 influence between them and his employers : but if his 
 denunciation was not enoudi to deter them from 
 plunder, he was bound in honour to stab himself, 
 nay, even to put himself to death, at the same time 
 doominiv the marauders to eternal punishment in the 
 event of such a catastrophe. 
 
 Such an agent as this was peculiarly suited to the 
 genius of the sage Oodiaver : for, however sceptical 
 his own notions mifrht be as to the divine lc2:ation 
 of the Charuns, he knew the powerful influence they 
 possessed over the thnid and superstitious multitude. 
 He had, accordingly, provided himself with a pro- 
 
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 98 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 tector of this description, to make use of on an 
 emergency ; not altogether confiding in the efficacy 
 of mere mortal weapons against such devils incarnate 
 as Kempe Goud and his jungle followers ; and finding 
 himself now reduced to the last extremity, he called 
 him forth, as we have before related. 
 
 So completely had the Charun concealed himself 
 in his thicket, even from the keen and practised eyes 
 of the rovers of the jungle, that when he appeared on 
 the summons of the Brahmin, and interposed his 
 ghastly figure between his employer and the Bheels, 
 the latter thought he had suddenly risen out of the 
 earth at the potent call of the Vakeel ; and their sur- 
 prise and alarm were considerably increased when, in 
 a hollow sepulchral tone, he addressed them in a species 
 of measured chant to the following purport : — 
 
 In Mahadeo's awful name ! 
 I charge you go from whence you came, 
 And leave the forest fair and free, 
 To this his favour' d company ! 
 
 Awestruck at the sudden apparition, the Bheels 
 recoiled a few paces in superstitious dread, for they 
 well knew the terrible penalty they incurred by 
 daring to dispute the Charun's power ; but Kempe 
 stood unabashed at the anathema about to be fulmi- 
 nated aG:ainst him. With unshaken nerves and a 
 scowl of fierce defiance, he gazed on the ghostly mi- 
 nister of Siva, and exclaimed in a firm and even 
 a threatening voice : —
 
 THE CHAEUN. 9^' 
 
 " Cease thine incantations, old man, and preach 
 not to me of peace or forbearance towards the per- 
 jured race of Mysore, whom I will pursue to the death, 
 and strike even in the tomb. Long ere the upstart 
 race of Rajapoots had come to push us from our 
 pleasant homes, my fathers roved these shaggy wilds, 
 chasing in freedom their sylvan prey, and quaffing in 
 peace the limpid rills that fertilise our once happy 
 soil. Wide and fruitful was their territory till the 
 destroyer came and smote it with his iron scourge : but 
 from sire to son, through succeeding generations, the 
 curses of my race against the gaudy slaves of Mysore 
 have descended as a choice inheritance to me ; and 
 with heart and hand I now stand here determined to 
 avenge their sacred cause." 
 
 '• One warning more ! " the Charun cried, while his 
 breast heaved with the frenzied enthusiasm of his 
 class : " one warning more I give to thee, man 
 accurst ! who hast defied my god and me. One warning 
 more, and that shall be the last ! " 
 
 Drawing forth his dagger, he flourished it over his 
 head, and suddenly plunged it deep into his shrivelled 
 arm, then wrenching the blade from the grisly gash, 
 he sprinkled the bloody drops upon the ground. 
 
 A cry of horror arose at the piteous sight from the 
 Bheels, and a shout of triumph from the Rajapoots, 
 who equally believed in the terrific consequences that 
 were likely to result from this self-infliction of the 
 
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 Charun. The Persian, however, who was, at least 
 in his hatred of paganism, a true Moslem, looked on 
 with the most sovereign contempt and indifference, as 
 he exclaimed, in tones of derision, — 
 
 " Ay, send the robber down to Eblees ; and when 
 he has been well broiled in hell fire, as we are taught 
 by the sacred volume, he shall receive a new skin, 
 that he may be roasted again for his wickedness." 
 
 " Hojee ! son of a sow ! " cried the Bheel, with 
 fury flashing from his eyes at the taunt. " Now, by thy 
 head and my feet I swear, thou pagan popinjay ! that 
 my revenge shall not be satisfied until I hang thee on 
 the narjil's topmost branch, as a mark for infant 
 Bheels to fire their leaden bolts at, and try their 
 skill in archery." 
 
 " Pedr sukhteh!"* retorted the Persian, "you 
 must win me first before you wear me. But live or 
 die, infidel that you are, I shall yet sec you at the 
 day of judgment, as we learn from the Holy Book, 
 chained to the devil, who seduced you to wickedness." 
 
 *' Jei/ Maliadeo ! Jey Doorga Bhavani ! " shouted 
 the Bheel to his devoted foiloAVcrs, in a voice that 
 made the echoes of the forest ring again. " Forward, 
 ye sons of Siva ! forward, I say, on the haughty 
 slaves of Mysore, and prove on their bloody crests 
 that you hold their arts and their arms in equal 
 scorn and defiance." 
 
 * The most common term of aljuse in a Persian's mouth. 
 It implies one whose father is burning in eternal fires.
 
 THE CHAEUN. 101 
 
 Koused by the sound which had so often cheered 
 them on to victory, the Bheels, shaking off the su- 
 perstitious terror which had for a moment cowed their 
 spirit, made ready for the onslaught. But ere an 
 arrow had left the bowstring, the Charun struck his 
 gong in fierce and angry mood; and in hollow 
 accents again addressed the impatient Kempe in the 
 same measured strain as before : — 
 
 ;THE DOOM.] 
 
 Hold ! while I doom thy land and thee — \ 
 The earth for ever barren be ! 
 The air with pestilence be fiU'd ! 
 The water burning poison yield ! 
 The fire consume both thee and thine ! 
 Such is the doom of wrath divine ! ; 
 
 And with this dagger's point I seal 
 My dying curse, thou bloody Bheel ! 
 
 With a hideous yell the enthusiast then plunged 
 the dagger into his side, even to the hilt, and rolled 
 upon the ground in convulsive agonies. 
 
 As if in momentary expectation of some signal of 
 divine vengeance, the w^arriors on either side recoiled 
 in horrid amazement, uttering a groan of terror. 
 Even Kempe's stern features quivered, and his 
 colour fled, when the dying Charun, writhing in 
 agony, and feebly raising his shrivelled frame as he 
 leaned faltcringly on his elbow, bent his glazed eye 
 upon the chief. With an expiring effort he slowly 
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 102 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 drew the crimsoned blade from the wound, and 
 shaking its dripping point at the quailing Bheel, he 
 thus faintly uttered in hollow but bitter accents his 
 dying 
 
 SUMMONS. 
 
 I summon thee ! I summon thee ! 
 
 To Yama's * awful throne : 
 To the fiery gulf of Patalaf 
 
 I summon thee alone ! 
 Long hast thou sown the fruitful seeds 
 
 Of ruin and disgrace, 
 And thou alone shalt bear the deeds 
 
 Of thy besotted race ! 
 
 I summon thee ! I summon thee ! 
 
 The Nuseeb j on thy brow, 
 Though before I could not see it, 
 
 I can read it plainly now. 
 Short space of time thou'rt given, 
 
 And one crime doth yet remain, 
 Ere the fiery bolt of heaven 
 
 Shall strike thee in the brain. 
 
 * The Hindoo Pluto, ruler of the infernal regions. 
 
 t Hell. 
 
 I The people of the East believe that the decreed events of 
 every man's life are impressed in divine characters on his fore- 
 head, though not to be seen by mortal eye. Hence they use 
 the word Nuseeb, anglice stamped, for destiny.
 
 THE CHAKUN". 103 
 
 I summon thee ! I summon tliee ! 
 
 By that mysterious scroll, 
 Which round thy neck thou wearest*. 
 
 I summon thy dark soul ! 
 To dwell for one eternal day 
 
 In Yama's burning lake, 
 While the land that owns thy cruel sway. 
 
 Shall perish for thy sake ! 
 
 I summon thee ! I summon thee ! 
 
 My eyes are growing dim, 
 And the visions of eternity 
 
 Before them darkly swim ; 
 But still one dying prophecy 
 
 Shall close my earthly span, 
 Thou shalt live a life of misery, 
 
 A doom'd and childless man ! 
 I summon thee ! I summon thee ! 
 
 To Yama's awful throne, 
 To the fiery gulf of Patala, 
 
 I summon thee alone ! 
 
 The fast ebbing powers of life scarcely permitted 
 the vindictive Charun to finish his dismal incantation, 
 and its concluding line was slowly uttered in scarce 
 audible murmurs. Feebly shaking the bloody steel 
 
 * The Junnum Pootee^ or Horoscope, cast at the birth, and 
 worn round the neck by the Bhcel chiefs. 
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 104 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 at the doomed chief, and bending on him still the 
 dying light of his threatening eye-ball, he gave a 
 wild unearthly shriek which, multiplied by the echoes 
 of the forest, resembled the despairing cries of innu- 
 merable fiends ; and with this last effort of exhausted 
 nature, his angry spirit took its flight for ever.
 
 THE BATTLE. 105 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 THE BATTLE. 
 
 The Charim's death was the signal for the conflict. 
 The Mysoreans, emboldened by so palpable a demon- 
 stration, as it were, of Divine favour, moved forward 
 with the disciplined good order in which they had so 
 long been trained ; and though dismounted cavalry fight 
 with manifest disadvantage, yet the memory of their 
 former deeds inspired them with more than ordinary 
 zeal and energy, which was still further enhanced by 
 the startling denunciation just fulminated against the 
 enemy. 
 
 On the other side, Kempe saw that the best hope 
 of victory lay in bringing his men into immediate 
 action ; for, chilled as their courage- had been by the 
 terrific scene which had just passed before their eyes, 
 any hesitation on his part might have been fatal to 
 his success. With voice and gesture, therefore, he 
 urged them to the contest, calling on them by those 
 endearing terms of martial encouragement which he 
 knew would produce an electric effect, and singling 
 out by name those of his followers whose courage 
 was of the most headlong and uncalculating nature. 
 
 As the example of the chief is- always the best 
 mode of inspiration amongst irregular and undisci-
 
 106 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 plined hordes, the gallant Bheel rushed forward him- 
 self to the front of the battle: striking his bossy- 
 shield with his tulwar, and calling on the Persian, as 
 a dog of Mahommed, to come forth, that he might 
 devote his head to Doorga Bhavani; that terrible 
 consort of Siva, of whom it is declared in the Bhawishya 
 Purana that the head of a slaughtered man gives her a 
 thousand times more satisfaction than that of a buffalo. 
 
 Nor was the Persian backward in replying to the 
 challenge of Kempe ; for, independent of his native 
 courage, he was inspired with the hope that, by de- 
 stroying this formidable enemy of Mysore, he might 
 win a place amongst the nobles of the court, and even 
 aspire to the fair hand of the Fawn-eyed Begum 
 herself. But whatever the event might be, he knew 
 that, in case of failure against the pagan, his Prophet 
 had generously provided him a Paradise of endless 
 bliss ; in the company of those ever-blooming girls, 
 who are created, not of clay, as mortal women are, 
 but of pure musk. 
 
 Urged by such inspiring motives, the meeting of 
 the two warriors was terrific. With alternate darins: 
 and caution they approached to the conflict ; circling 
 round each other at a distance which gradually- 
 diminished at every step, with a view to gain the 
 advantage of the sun, and each practising a variety 
 of crafty feints to distract the attention of his 
 adversary. When at length they closed, their blows 
 were dealt with vigour and rapidity ; while the clash-
 
 THE BATTLE. 107 
 
 ing of their highly-tempered blades on the bosses of 
 their shields produced innumerable sparks of fire, as 
 with uncommon dexterity they received on their 
 slippery surfaces cuts that would otherwise have been 
 fraught with death. 
 
 Full of youthful vigour, endowed with equal 
 courage, and both eminent masters of their respective 
 weapons, they wheeled, retreated, or advanced by 
 turns as the nature of the ground, or the prospect of 
 advantage prompted them : but though the crooked 
 scimitar of the Persian had stained w^ith a crimson 
 streak the snowy vest of the Bheel, and the nimble 
 tulwar of the latter had more than once penetrated 
 the quilted poshauk of the young soldier, as yet no 
 apparent advantage had been gained on either side. 
 Still every muscle of the body was called into action, 
 every nerve was strained to the utmost, every trick 
 of art was had recourse to ; while the hard breathing 
 of the combatants, and the heavy perspiration tliat 
 bedewed their faces, betokened the equal and deadly 
 nature of the struggle. 
 
 In breathless anxiety the hostile bands of these 
 gallant leaders suspended their motions, as if by 
 mutual consent, and gazed on the combat as if their 
 own earthly fate depended on its termination; while as 
 victory seemed to incline to either side, or as either 
 antagonist reeled beneath a blow, the anxious spec- 
 tators uttered shouts of encouragement to their re-
 
 108 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 spective champion. Many of the Bheels, however, 
 longed for an opportunity to terminate the battle by an 
 arrow or a matchlock ; but so rapid were the motions of 
 the combatants, and so closely were they interlaced 
 in their deadly evolutions, that the truest marksman 
 held his hand, diffident for the first time of his un- 
 erring aim. 
 
 For many minutes the combat thus raged with 
 equal energy and fury ; for, though both chiefs were 
 wounded, their unsubdued spirit prevented them from 
 feeling any physical pain, while the extraordinary 
 springs they occasionally made to avoid a cut, or 
 take each other by surprise, proved their strength 
 and agility to be still very little diminished. 
 
 At length Kempe suddenly threw himself on his 
 knees to make a cut at the legs of his opponent ; and 
 from that apparently helpless position sprang back se- 
 veral feet as quick as lightning, to escape the stroke 
 that was descending on his head. In attempting to re- 
 tort the same manoeuvre, which is a favourite one in 
 the East, young Morad was not so quick in his motions 
 as to escape a slight scratch over tlie temple from the 
 tulwar of the Bheel. This was disregarded for some 
 time, and indeed apparently unnoticed by the Persian, 
 though it bled freely, and rather obstructed his 
 vision ; till at length, having put aside a thrust of his 
 adversary, he, in an evil moment, raised the hand 
 which bore his target to wipe the blood from his
 
 THE BATTLE. 109 
 
 brow. Quick as lightning, Kempe, seizing the ad- 
 vantage, plunged his tulwar into the sword-arm of 
 the brave Persian, whose weapon instantly fell from 
 his nerveless grasp ; and in this defenceless condition, 
 before he could interpose his shield, he received with 
 equal rapidity another cut across the forehead, which 
 brought him to the ground, to all appearance as if his 
 gallant soul had winged its way to the paradise of his 
 Prophet. 
 
 ^^ Jey Mahadco ! Jey Doorga Bhavani!^^ shouted 
 the Bheels, while a groan of horror rose from the 
 Pajapoots as from one man, and mingled with the 
 yells of triumph echoed on every side from their joy- 
 ous opponents. 
 
 Then it was that young Yega and the one- 
 eyed Bheel, who had bestowed his taree pot on 
 the matchlock-men, rushed on the sanguine ground 
 with ungovernable fury. The former, with the fierce 
 activity of the tiger-cat raged in every quarter of the 
 fight, plying his nimble tulwar with rapidity and 
 effect : the latter bore on his left arm a small round 
 target, studded with iron knobs, over the rim of 
 which his burning eye-ball flashed like lightning from 
 a sable cloud. His sword, one of those formidable 
 weapons of the south, called a Dhoop, was of peculiar 
 construction : the blade was of enormous length, broad 
 and two-edged: the hilt was enclosed in a hollow 
 iron tube, which covered the right hand and arm to 
 the elbow, and formed a complete piece of armour.
 
 110 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 His mode of attack and defence consisted of incessant 
 springs, wheels, and turns, which he performed with 
 astonishing vigour and activity, using his formidable 
 sword sometimes as a sj)ear, darting it forward at the 
 enemy, sometimes as a scimitar, cutting round him in 
 eV^ery direction ; every sweep of his terrible weapon, 
 the lustre of which was speedily quenched in blood, 
 deriving additional impetus from the velocity of his 
 motions. Thus doubly armed, as it were, with sword 
 and lance, the vengeful Bheel flew through the 
 enemy's ranks, wheeling in mazy circles, and inflicting 
 many a ghastly wound in his progress. 
 
 But though the children of the desert followed 
 eagerly in the path thus opened for them by their 
 ferocious leader, while their arrows and the balls 
 from their matchlocks were poured with murderous 
 effect upon the unshrinking Rajapoots, the latter 
 bravely disputed every inch of ground, and scorned 
 to fly before so base an enemy. Their ranks were 
 thinned, but still they shouted " Hamah ! Kamah ! 
 Victory !" The standard of the sun waved proudly 
 over the little Heroic band * : their long hair, cast 
 loose, floated wildly on the breeze, and their turbans 
 were bound with the well-known scarf of hymeneal 
 yellow, which it is the usage of Hindoo saints and 
 warriors to wear in action ; to indicate that they go 
 to battle as to a bridal feast, determined to die or to 
 live exulting conquerors. 
 
 * The forlorn hope.
 
 THE BATTLE. Ill 
 
 Fiercely again the battle waged; and as their 
 lances and heavy trenchant teghas * were freely dyed 
 in the blood of their opponents, they called to mind 
 how often the Bheels had fled before them when led 
 on by the gallant Kistna. Inspired by that immortal 
 name, every breast was filled with renewed energy 
 and courage. Throwing themselves into a solid 
 square, with lance in rest, they advanced rapidly 
 upon the scattered array of the enemy with that 
 overwhelming superiority which united science and 
 bravery impart to well-disciplined troops ; and with 
 shouts of " Jey Kistna Bahauder ! Jey Balla jee 
 Ram ! " they bore back triumphantly the tumultuous 
 rabble of Bheels, who, notwithstanding their first 
 success, were still half unmanned by the dreadful 
 doom and dying curse of the Charun. 
 
 Kempe, however, ably supported by Vega, the 
 one-eyed Bheel, and a chosen party of his best 
 warriors, still bravely kept the field, giving and 
 taking wounds and death; yet, exhausted by their 
 incessant toils, they must ultimately have yielded the 
 ground to the impenetrable phalanx of their enemies ; 
 but at this critical juncture a yell of fury rent the 
 air, and Kungapa, the chieftain's Bhaut, rushed 
 suddenly forward from the jungly screen that skirted 
 the field of battle. 
 
 The priest and bard, with eye on fire and withered 
 
 * A particular sort of long sword used by tbc Enjapoots.
 
 112 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 form, had often by his inspiring strains turned the 
 tide of battle and led the Bheels on to victory : for, 
 to recite genealogies, and sing hymns and warlike 
 songs to animate the troops in action, was the peculiar 
 province of this half sacred class. His wrinkled and 
 moody brow was encircled with a wreath of peepul 
 leaves interminjrled with string^s of lotus blossoms. 
 His veena * was suspended from his neck, and with 
 a wild and haggard gaze, inflamed, however, with 
 poetic fire, he struck the trembling strings rudely but 
 harmoniously, as he thus poured forth his bold in- 
 spiring strains: — 
 
 To the battle ! to the battle ! 
 
 Sons of Siva ! god of woe ! 
 Let your fiery arrows rattle 
 
 On the bucklers of the foe ! 
 
 Flashing swords and lances gleaming, 
 Charge the children of the sun ! 
 
 Set their purple life blood streaming 
 On the field that you have won ! 
 
 * An instrument of the guitar kind with seven metal strings. 
 It is the most ancient musical Instrument of the Hindoos, and 
 in good hands is capable of yielding great melody and ex- 
 pression.
 
 THE BATTLE. 113 
 
 Darters of the lightning,* rally ! 
 
 Pour your fatal bullets roimd ! 
 On the false Mysoreans sally ! 
 
 Drive them from our holy ground ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 See your chief the battle waging, 
 All alone, devoid of fear. 
 
 Like a hungry tiger raging 
 Through a flying herd of deer ! 
 
 To the battle ! to the battle ! 
 
 Sons of Siva ! god of woe ! 
 Let your fiery arrows rattle 
 
 On the bucklers of the foe ! 
 
 Roused by this stern appeal^ the ruthless marau- 
 ders of the forest, concentrating their forces, poured 
 in a flight of arrows, and rushed on their now sinking 
 opponents in a mass which bore down every obstacle, 
 and finally decided the fate of the day. Overwhelmed, 
 but not conquered, the Heroic band, with dauntless 
 bravery, defied the Bheels to the very last, and fell 
 as they fought, in unbroken ranks of dead and 
 wounded, round the body of their slaughtered Chief. 
 
 * Burkendauz^ or lightning-darter, is the usual term in India 
 for a matchlock-man. 
 
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 114 SAVIXDROOG. 
 
 CHAP. X. 
 
 THE PILLARS OF VICTORY. 
 
 The battle being ended, Kempe Goud, who to Ms 
 military talents added many other good qualities of a 
 prudent Chief, took the necessary measures to secure 
 the fruits of a victory so dearly bought, and which 
 would have been more than doubtful were it not for 
 the inspiring strains of his venerable Bard. 
 
 Parties were sent in all directions in search of 
 stragglers, and also to collect the valuable booty ; a 
 service in which the Bheels evinced a most praise- 
 worthy alacrity, and a savoir faire altogether admi- 
 rable They not only succeeded in bringing the tipsy 
 elephant back to his tether, but they captured all 
 the runaway chargers, laid sacrilegious hands on the 
 golden Moorut, and confiscated the costly presents 
 intended for the Brahmins of Mailcottah. Nay, so 
 conscientiously exact and scrupulous were these 
 gentry in the discharge of their duty, that they ripped 
 up the packsaddles of the camels and even the quilted 
 poshauks of the dead and wounded Kajapoots, in search 
 of hidden gold or jewels. In short, nothing escaped 
 their natural shrewdness and long experience ; and, ere 
 two hours had elapsed, the encampment of the jMyso-
 
 THE PILLAKS OF VICTORY. 115 
 
 rean Ambassador was so prettily pillaged that the 
 most fastidious Pindaree himself would have expressed 
 his admiration at the skilful and workmanlike execu- 
 tion of the job. 
 
 Meanwhile the bodies of the slain Bheels were 
 committed to the earth; a very marked distinction 
 peculiar to this tribe from the Brahminical practice 
 of burning. The dead bodies of the Rajapoots, so far 
 from being treated with similar ceremony, were left 
 Vv^here they fell, as a grateful offering to the wolves 
 and jackals of the wilderness ; which were impatiently 
 howling at a little distance, and snuffing on the 
 tainted gale the savoury odour of their anticipated 
 repast ; while the grim vulture flapped his wings in 
 the neighbouring thickets, as an indication that he 
 too laid claim to a share of the feast. 
 
 The wounded Mysoreans were also left to live or 
 die as their TaMeer or destiny thought best, but the 
 wounded Bheels were carefully attended to by the 
 Bhaut and one or two Hiijams, or village barbers ; 
 who in India, as well as in other countries that lay 
 claim to superior civilisation, formerly aspired to a 
 knowledge of medicine, and were expert at healing 
 wounds, or setting broken limbs ; while their wives 
 practised the obstetric art, and were, moreover, held 
 in high esteem as first-rate gossips by all the females 
 in their respective neighbourhoods. 
 
 The dead and wounded being thus disposed of.
 
 116 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 pillars of victory were piled up according to ancient 
 custom, and duly decorated with the heads of the 
 slain Rajapoots. The cares of the Chief were next 
 addressed to the refreshment of the living ; and sundry 
 wild boars, antelopes, peacocks, and jungle-fowl, the 
 produce of the previous day's hunting, were pre- 
 pared for the wooden spit and the earthen cooking pot, 
 with equal skill and despatch. 
 
 In due time a plentiful and savoury feast was spread 
 upon the greensward beneath some tamarind trees, to 
 which the Chief and his faithful Bheels sat down with- 
 out ceremony, and did every possible honour. They 
 bivouacked on the field of battle ; carousing all night, 
 and drinking healths " five fathom deep," in honour of 
 their glorious victory, and joy for their splendid cap- 
 lure, richer than had ever been made on any previous 
 excursion. Foremost in the revels was the chief 
 himself: for though he strictly and sternly enforced 
 the execution of duty and the usages of war, yet when 
 the service was over, and danger no more required his 
 immediate attention, he loved to unbend amongst his 
 devoted followers, and pushed round the wine-cup 
 with a zeal and energy that too often exceeded the 
 bounds of discretion. 
 
 Designed by nature to rule over a rude and pre- 
 datory band, the courage of Kempe Goud was proof 
 against every danger, while his vigour and activity 
 were equal to every toil and hardship. He would chase
 
 THE PILLARS OF VICTORY. 117 
 
 his prey into the darkest labyrinths of the forest, 
 careless of the assistance of his attendants ; and the 
 nilgaw, the tiger, and the ashgur, or boa constrictor, 
 frequently fell beneath the prowess of his single arm. 
 
 When at the chase his faithful Bheels shared in 
 his sylvan repasts, and pledged him freely in the wine- 
 cup: during which Saturnalia the most unbounded 
 mirth reigned without control, and ribald jests were 
 not unfrequently levelled, with impunity, even at the 
 Chief himself by his boon companions. On one oc- 
 casion, however, Kempe flung his boar spear at one 
 of his followers, who had put his temper to somewhat 
 too severe a test. The Bheel was struck through the 
 arm ; but with unflinching fortitude and singular de- 
 votion, he drew the weapon from the wound, and on 
 his bended knee returned it to his Chief, praying him 
 to amend his blow if so inclined. The rare fidelity 
 of the man was repaid with a shower of rupees poured 
 into the hollow of his shield ; and the ch'cumstance 
 only tended to strengthen the tie that existed between 
 the Goud and his hardy followers. 
 
 While the cup now circled gaily, and the flow of 
 soul was at its zenith, a shout of triumph from an 
 approaching party of Bheels announced the arrival of 
 some important capture. 
 
 The new-comers were accordingly greeted with 
 cries of welcome, which were succeeded by bursts of 
 merriment, when the redoubted Hafiz Bahauder and 
 
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 118 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 his drunken companions were uslierecl on the scene ; 
 staggering and stupified by the powerful narcotic 
 they had so freely partaken of, and looking pitiful, 
 crest-fallen, and in utter amazement at all that was 
 passing around them. 
 
 The Chieftain eyed them with disdain ; and with 
 a stern voice ordered them to account for their pre- 
 sumptuous appearance in his territories without pass- 
 port or permission whatever. 
 
 Hafiz Bahauder, conceiving himself to be the 
 soberest of the party, stretched forth his hand to speak 
 for the rest ; and staggering to and fro, thus addressed 
 his stern interrogator, who, he had just sense enough 
 to perceive, was not a man to be safely trifled with. 
 
 ^'Asylum of nations! — the ghouls of the de- 
 sert have enchanted us — with sirrups and love 
 potions " 
 
 *''Twas a one-eyed Ghorumsaug, as ugly as fifty 
 devils," stammered Feroz Khan, " that gave us the 
 infernal draught." 
 
 A hearty laugh passed round the circle at the ex- 
 pense of the ci-devant taree man, who scowled fe- 
 rociously at the compliment of the Afghaun, while 
 Hafiz proceeded as follows : — 
 
 '' Ai wahi ! Unlucky day ! what dust has fallen 
 upon our heads ! The Jiggcrkliar * has eaten our 
 
 * " One of the wonders of this country," says Abul Fazil 
 (Ayeen Akberry), "is the jiggerkhar, or liver eater. One of
 
 THE PILLAES OF VICTORY. 119 
 
 livers, and so — your Junah* perceives — we are 
 
 nothing more than " 
 
 " Beastly swine ! " roared the Chieftain in a terrific 
 voice ; " fit only to wallow in the mire, to the disgust 
 of all true soldiers." 
 
 " Father of victory I and Protector of the stars ! " 
 cried Hafiz, extending his arm with a graceful flourish, 
 and making a most elaborate salaam; ''the day of 
 judgment has surely arrived ; but let not the ashes 
 of your displeasure fall upon our heads — our souls 
 are dried up with apprehension, and drink — the 
 waters of bitterness." 
 
 " Silence, hog of Eblees ! " cried the Chief, with a 
 frown that withered the heart of the Afghaun. 
 
 But at this moment, fortunately for Hafiz and his 
 feUow-delinquents, a more important personage was 
 ushered on the scene by two of the Bheel scouts, and 
 whose appearance diverted the anger of the Chief for 
 a moment from the drunken matchlock-men. This 
 was a little, withered, trembling old man, whose once 
 snowy garments and venerable beard were now sadly 
 defiled with mud and weeds ; component parts of a 
 stagnant pool in which he had been discovered by the 
 scouts, buried up to his very chin in the most de- 
 plorable state of anxiety and terror. 
 
 this class can steal away tlie liver of another by looks and 
 incantations." 
 * Highness. 
 
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 120 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " In the name of Doorga ! " exclaimed Kempe, in 
 a voice of thunder, " who art thou ? " 
 
 " Ram Kajah ! mighty Prince I " replied the little 
 old man, in a deprecating voice, " much do I regret 
 that my Chobdars are not present to announce me in 
 due form ; but the scurvy knaves are Nimmuk-ha- 
 rai/iee* — they have betrayed their salt, and fled 
 inglorious from the field." 
 
 " Then announce yourself," said the Bheel im- 
 patiently : "though you are bedevilled with mud 
 and weeds, I have some faint recollection of your 
 features." 
 
 " Puissant conqueror 1 " cried the stranger, with a 
 graceful and profound salaam, " I am known by the 
 title of the ' Wise in Council and venerable of Years, 
 the unequalled Sage Oodiaver Sahib, Ambassador 
 Extraordinary of the mighty and puissant Rajah of 
 Mysore." 
 
 " Wallah, Billali ! " interrupted Bahauder Hafiz ; 
 " there is no occasion for a Chobdar : his dirty 
 Highness can very well sound his own trumpet." 
 
 " Beat that child of the devil on the mouth," cried 
 Kempe, " till he hasn't a tooth in his head ! " 
 
 Half a dozen slippers and sandals were accordingly 
 hurled at the mouth of the unlucky Hafiz ; while the 
 Chief addressing the sage Oodiaver, apologised with 
 mock solemnity for not immediately apprehending the 
 
 * False to their salt.
 
 THE PILLARS OF VICTORY. 121 
 
 dignity of his office. He was unaccustomed, he said, 
 to receive at his Durbar ambassadors of so distin- 
 guished an appearance and such princely habiliments ; 
 but he would now endeavour to make up for previous 
 want of courtesy. He accordingly gave order that a 
 musnud * should be brought for his accommodation, 
 befitting the dignity of so high a personage. 
 
 The one-eyed Bheel, who was always at hand to 
 execute the orders of his master, immediately brought 
 in a puckaully, or huge pig skin, stitched up in the 
 form of a bag, and replenished with Sendi wine, which 
 is supposed to derive a racy flavour from the contact. 
 This novel description of musnud being placed on the 
 sod near the Chieftain, the sage Oodiaver was invited 
 to occupy the place of honour. 
 
 A thrill of horror shook the frame of the Brahmin 
 at this gross insult; and he declared his utter re- 
 pugnance to place any, even the most ignoble part of 
 his body, in contact with the skin of any thing that 
 once had life, especially of so unclean an animal. His 
 scruples were, however, overcome by two sturdy 
 Bheels, w^ho forcibly placed him on the puckaully-bag, 
 in spite of his struggles and wry faces, to the great 
 amusement of all present, particularly of the match- 
 lock-men; who were doubtless rejoiced that the 
 attention of the chief had been thus diverted from 
 themselves into another channel. 
 
 * A carpet, or cushion- throne, or seat of honour.
 
 122 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 Bahauder Hafiz, emboldened by the frollcksome 
 turn -whicli affairs had taken, now fell upon his knees, 
 and biting the grass, according to the custom of the 
 Afghauns when defeated, and in the presence of their 
 conquerors, he thus addressed the half-frowning, half- 
 smiling Kempe ; — 
 
 ." Tola! toba /* Asylum of the World, and Grasper 
 of the Universe ! has your ox permission to speak ? " 
 
 ^' Speak out, then," said Kempe, " but let your 
 words smack of discretion, or the kahoos f shall right 
 speedily claim acquaintance with your shoulders." 
 
 " Kibleh f of the earth ! " exclaimed the Afghaun, 
 touching first the ground and then his forehead with 
 the palm of his hand, " my soul is both your sacrifice 
 and your peishaish ! § but it appears to me, who am 
 the least of dogs in this assembly, that, whatever anti- 
 pathy the venerable Brahmin has to the pigskin, he 
 may have none in his present pickle to a drop of its 
 contents." 
 
 " By the bones of my father ! " said Kempe laugh- 
 ing, " the ass may sometimes bray in season ! Give 
 the sage Oodiaver a horn of liquor, to drive the wind 
 out of his head, and the water out of his stomach." 
 
 * Peccavi! 
 
 f A very heavy whip, made of a buffalo's skin, and dried till 
 it is nearly as hard as iron. 
 
 I Centre of attraction. The point (Mecca) to which Ma- 
 hommedans turn in prayer. 
 
 § Tribute.
 
 THE PILLAES OF VICTORY. 123 
 
 A buffalo's horn, finely polished and filled to the 
 brim with sparkling Sendi, was accordingly produced ; 
 but Oodiaver declared that nothing on earth should 
 prevail on him to do that Avhich no individual of 
 his high Caste could do without unutterable defile- 
 ment. The same means were, however, resorted to as 
 before ; and while one Bheel held the head of the 
 ambassador, another poured the infernal liquid down 
 his throat, amidst shouts of laughter, which formed a 
 strange contrast to the battle cries that, in the earlier 
 part of the day, had awoke the echoes of the forest. 
 
 " Khodawund 1 Maharaj ! " * said Bahauder Hafiz, 
 again stretching forth his hand, " jouvjiinab knows 
 that, amongst our Dooraunee tribes, it is ever held 
 unwholesome and sottish to drink on an empty 
 stomach " 
 
 " Well, father of owls ! " interrupted Kempe, with 
 a grim smile, " what dog's trick have you now in 
 your noddle ? " 
 
 " Gurreeh-purvmun ! ''^ \ replied Hafiz, "I am my 
 lord's slave, and rub my nose on his feet. I would, 
 therefore, represent that the venerable Oodiaver 
 might be comforted by a few of those fat collops and 
 rich kabobs with which your hospitable board is so 
 bountifully stored." 
 
 This suggestion was also carried into execution ; 
 
 * Chosen of God ! Great Prince ! 
 t rrotector of the poor !
 
 124 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 and the unfortunate ambassador was obliged to swallow, 
 at the imminent risk of being choked, certain savoury 
 morsels of swine's flesh, which finally completed the 
 total forfeiture of his Caste : a misfortune he could 
 never hope to retrieve, unless by ages of unheard of 
 mortification and penance. 
 
 The creature-comforts, however, of which the old 
 man had so unwillingly partaken, not only restored 
 the tone of his stomach, which had been sadly chilled 
 by the muddy sanctuary he had chosen, but also won- 
 derfully elevated his courage ; and he began to re- 
 monstrate with Kempe Goud, in a style and manner 
 altogether new to the followers of that imperious 
 Chief. 
 
 " The mighty Vishnu," he said, " for some wise 
 purpose, or to punish some unexpiated transgression, 
 had delivered him bound hand and foot into the power 
 of his adversaries ; and he had suffered a pollution for 
 which he was assured by the Dhermashastra* , that 
 when, in the course of nature, he should be called to 
 a higher sphere, he would have to perform rigid Ta~ 
 pasya] , for at least 40,000 years; standing on the 
 tip of his great toe, with an iron style, ten fingers 
 long, thrust through that unhappy part of his body 
 which had unwillingly come in contact with the 
 puckauUy-bag." 
 
 * The sacred code of the Hindoos. 
 I Penance.
 
 THE PILLARS OF VICTOET. 125 
 
 ^'Bismillah! Bismillah! let them be pinned to- 
 gether," said Bahauder Hafiz. 
 
 The Yakeel, without deigning to notice the imper- 
 tinence of the Afghaun, begged Kempe to observe 
 that, according to the Institutes of Menu, he, as a 
 Soodra, or outcast, had incurred the penalty of having 
 also an iron style, ten fingers long, thrust red hot 
 into his mouth for his contumelious treatment of one 
 of the first-born of Brahma. 
 
 " Hojee ! son of a sow ! " cried the Chief in a burst 
 of anger: "you old bankrupt! I spit upon your 
 beard. How dare you, who lie so completely at my 
 mercy, brand me, a Bheelalah * Chief, with the name 
 of Soodra?" 
 
 " Is it not written in the Mahabharat j?" said the 
 Brahmin, who was now waxing, in vulgar parlance, 
 pot-valiant, " how Mahadeo was one day reclining, 
 sick and unhappy, in a shady forest, when a beautiful 
 woman appeared, the first sight of whom effected a 
 complete cure of all his complaints ? " 
 
 " To Khodali ! " interrupted Bahauder Hafiz, " a 
 pretty girl is always the best cure for god or mortal." 
 
 * The principal chiefs of the Bheels, notwithstanding their 
 hostility to the Eajapoots, are fond of boasting that they belong 
 to the Bheelalah tribe, viz. claiming a descent by their father 
 from the llajapoots, their mother being of the Bheel tribe. 
 
 f The great Sanscrit poem which relates the "Wars of the 
 Gods. It is considered sacred, as well as the Kamayana and 
 the Vedas.
 
 126 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " Is it not further written," resumed the Brahmin, 
 with a glance of unutterable disdain at the Afghaun, 
 "that an intercourse between the god and the 
 strange female was established, the result of which 
 was many children ? " 
 
 " Extremely natural," said Bahauder Hafiz, " both 
 in beaven and earth." 
 
 '' One of these children," continued the venerable 
 Yakeel, " who was from infancy alike distinguished 
 for his ugliness and vice, slew the favourite bull of 
 Mahadeo, for which crime he was expelled to the 
 Avoods and mountains ; and his descendants (of whom 
 you are one) have ever since been stigmatised with 
 the names of Bheel and Nishada, both of which, 
 in our sacred lano-uas^e *, denote outcasts." 
 
 The correctness of this venerable tradition could 
 not be disputed — a fact which galled Kempe Goud to 
 the quick ; indeed his mortification became so visible, 
 that even the fuddled ambassador perceived it, and 
 followed up his blow with a vivacity inspired by the 
 Sendi wine, which now operated in full activity. 
 
 " Bapre! Bapre!^^ cv'ied Oodiaver with a heavy 
 sigh, "I am now apparently in your power, and 
 ashes have fallen upon my head ! But what says 
 Menu in the 9th chapter of his Institutes, sections 
 313. 319.? — * Let not the King provoke Brahmins, 
 although in the greatest distress, to anger ; for they, 
 
 * The Sanscrit.
 
 THE PILLARS OF VICTORY. 127 
 
 once enraged, could immediately destroy him, with 
 his troops, elephants, horses and chariots of war ! " 
 
 *^ Barikillah ! 3IashaUah!" exclaimed Bahauder 
 Hafiz; "many a big w^ord comes off a weak sto- 
 mach!" 
 
 " Who," demanded the Yakeel, elevating his voice 
 aa his subject rose in sublimity, " who with impunity 
 could provoke those holy men, by whom the all- 
 devouring flame w^as created — the sea with waters 
 not drinkable — and the moon with its wane and 
 increase? What prince could gain wealth by op- 
 pressing those who, if angry, could frame other worlds, 
 and regents of worlds ; and could give being to other 
 gods and mortals ? " 
 
 " Your churchmen, in every religion," interrupted 
 Bahauder Hafiz, " are always great feeders and fast 
 breeders." 
 
 " A Brahmin," continued the Pundit, " whether 
 learned or ignorant, is a powerful divinity, even as 
 
 fire is a powerful divinity " 
 
 Here the Yakeel was interrupted by an im- 
 moderate fit of laughter from Kempe Goud; who 
 seein;T; the condition of his venerable truest had 
 conquered his first feelings, and was now less angry 
 than amused at the loquacity of the sage; while the 
 latter thus continued his harangue, every now and 
 then unconsciously taking a sip of the Scndi wine, 
 with which his horn was carefully replenished.
 
 128 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " Know you not," resumed the ambassador, " that 
 Vishnu slept for ages on the serpent Ananta, or 
 Eternity, floating on the face of the milky ocean ? " 
 
 " Confound him for a lazy milksop ! " cried Bahau- 
 der Hafiz. " That accounts for your antipathy to 
 good liquor." 
 
 (i ^hen the work of creation was to be performed," 
 continued the Pundit, " Brahma sprang from a Lotus 
 growing out of the navel of Vishnu, and produced 
 the elements, formed the world, and gave birth to the 
 human race." 
 
 " Alhumd-ul-illah! " cried the Afghaun, "how the 
 world is altered ! Praise be to Allah and his Pro- 
 phet ! that's the women's business now-a-days." 
 
 " Of all created beings," cried the Vakeel with 
 increasing enthusiasm, *^ the Brahmin was the first 
 born of God, springing from the mouth of his 
 Creator, that being the seat of wisdom." 
 
 "And the organ of folly," cried the Afghaun, 
 with a significant wink. 
 
 "Indeed," continued the sage, "so thoroughly is 
 my sacred Caste imbued with this divine attribute, 
 that the very birth of a Brahmin is declared by 
 Menu to be a continued incarnation of Dherma, god 
 of justice." 
 
 " Ai Bhavani Devi!'''' interrupted Kempe, "you 
 remind me. Sage Oodiavcr, that I have an act of 
 justice to perform towards those drunken Kafirs who
 
 THE PILLARS OF TICTOEY. 129 
 
 are grinning there at your eloquence. But as the 
 oftence they have committed has turned out less to 
 my prejudice than to that of your own prince, it is 
 but fair that you should be judge on the occasion. 
 Mount then the tribunal, thou venerable incarna- 
 tion of Dherma, god of justice ! Condemn these 
 knaves to such penalty as their delinquency merits ; 
 and I swear to thee, most learned Pundit and wise 
 Ambassador, that thy verdict shall be carried into 
 immediate execution." 
 
 Flattered by this high appointment, and soothed 
 by the handsome manner in which it was conferred, 
 the venerable Yakeel assumed his judicial functions 
 with all the dignity he could muster, and called on 
 the delinquents to stand forth. The labours of the 
 judge were not very onerous, there being no neces- 
 sity for sifting evidence, or cross-questioning wit- 
 nesses: the facts were too palpable to be denied: 
 and amounted to a base dereliction of duty in front 
 of an enemy, for which the ordinary laws of the 
 military code would inflict death ; but as the Brah- 
 min's creed forbade him to take that animal life 
 which he could not give, he contented himself with 
 a mitigated penalty. 
 
 In his award, however, we must in candour ac- 
 knowledge that the justice of the judge yielded in 
 some respect to the feelings of the man ; for recol- 
 lecting the active part taken in his degradation by 
 
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 130 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 Bahaucler Hafiz, he apportioned his punishment ac- 
 cordingly. But this he did with all due respect to 
 decency, and a praiseworthy semblance of impar- 
 tiality, by stating that Hafiz was a greater culprit 
 than any of the others, inasmuch as he had a larger 
 share of wit and understanding : he had, moreover, 
 taken the first swig at the taree-pot, and thereby 
 set the pernicious example which had led to such 
 fatal consequences. Under all these considerations, 
 therefore, the Brahmin decreed that Bahauder Hafiz 
 should be hung by the heels to the summit of the 
 loftiest tree in the forest, to the very verge of strangu- 
 lation ; after which, that he and his brother scamps 
 should be heartily scourged out of the camp, and 
 sent to the nearest Mysorean post naked, with their 
 hands ignominiously tied behind their backs. 
 
 The judgment of the sage Oodiaver was received 
 with the greatest applause by the Bheels, wdio pre- 
 pared to carry it into execution with wonderful 
 alacrity. Bahauder Hafiz was capsized in a twink- 
 ling : his heels were tied together with one end of a 
 coir * rope, and the other being passed over the top- 
 most branch of a lofty cocoa-nut tree, he was speedily 
 hoisted up, head-downwards, to the summit, amidst 
 the scoffs and jeers of the delighted Bheels; and it 
 was not until he was actually on the point of giving 
 
 * An elastic rope, made of the fibrous outer-coating of the 
 cocoa-nut.
 
 THE PILLAKS OF VICTORY. 131 
 
 up the gliost that he was lowered to the ground. 
 He was then, with his fellow-delinquents, stripped 
 naked, their hands were tied behind their backs, and 
 good heavy scourges, for carrying into effect the re- 
 mainder of the Brahmin's award, were placed at the 
 discretion of their escort. 
 
 There Avas, however, one slight addition made by 
 Kempe to the sentence of the Yakeel, which the 
 latter had not anticipated : this was, with shame we 
 relate it, that the sage Oodiaver having tumbled off 
 the judgment- seat in a strange state of mystification, 
 arising no doubt from the unaccustomed potation to 
 which he had been subjected, he was strapped on the 
 back of an ass, and in this undignified condition he 
 led the march, altogether unconscious of the honour 
 conferred upon him. 
 
 But amidst all his ruthless ferocity, we must do 
 KemjDe Goud the justice to record that he caused dili- 
 gent search to be made for the body of his late gallant 
 antagonist; who, though badly wounded, was still' 
 alive. The injuries sustained by the brave but unfor- 
 tunate Morad were carefully attended to; and his 
 body being placed upon a temporary litter, he was 
 carried by four of the Afghaun matchlock-men in rear 
 of the escort. 
 
 In this guise the sad remnant of the Brahmin's late 
 brilliant cortege took the road towards Srirunga- 
 puttun, the attendant Bheels sparing not the rod by 
 
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 132 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 the way on tlie backs of Hafiz and his disgraced com- 
 panions. In due time having arrived within a prudent 
 distance of that great city, Kempe's myrmidons bade 
 adieu to their prisoners, whom they had the satisfaction 
 of seeing soon after received by crowds of the citizens, 
 who flocked out to witness the sight, in wonder and 
 amazement at this new exploit of the robber of 
 the jungle. 
 
 The reception of the mystified Ambassador was 
 by no means flattering : his unexpected return spread 
 dismay amongst the females of the palace, by whom 
 the signal and disgraceful failure of his mission was 
 generally regarded as an omen highly unfjivourable to 
 the future happiness of the princess ; and the averted 
 looks of the Maha Eanee and her lovely daughter 
 materially enhanced the severity of the penances 
 awarded to the luckless Oodiaver for the recovery of 
 his Caste.
 
 THE JUNGLE DUEBAE. 133 
 
 CHAP. XL 
 
 THE JUNGLE DURBAR. 
 
 The earliest dawn of morning put an end to the 
 revelry of the Bheels, and they prepared to leave the 
 scene of their late victory to the sole occupation of 
 the winged and four-footed marauders of the forest, 
 who were eager to enjoy undisturbed their share of 
 the spoil. 
 
 The elephant, with noble mien and cautious 
 steps, led the triumphal march, the splendid howdah 
 being occupied by the gallant Kempe. The vene- 
 rable Bhaut was elevated on the packsaddle of a 
 camel, and swept the strings of his veena to lively 
 and martial airs ; extemporising, as ho went along, 
 in high-sounding verse, the raging of the battle and 
 the exploits of his Chief. The wounded men were 
 accommodated with the chargers of the Rajapoots, 
 and the remainder of the band pressed forward on 
 foot, through the entanglements of the forest. 
 
 In this order the cavalcade advanced throuirh the 
 
 o 
 
 wild and woody scene : over rocky knolls, swelling 
 hills and verdant alleys, arched overhead with em- 
 bowering fuliage, impervious to the solar rays, and 
 
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 134 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 presenting a labyrinth of sylvan intricacies, impene- 
 trable to all but the hardy dweller of the forest. At 
 length from a gentle eminence they beheld the em- 
 battled walls and venerable pagodas of Maugree, 
 rising in the centre of a cultivated valley, which was 
 surrounded by the most lovely woodland scenery; 
 while beyond, at a little distance, appeared the stu- 
 pendous rock of Savindroog, lifting its castellated 
 heads in naked grandeur, high above the sylvan 
 girdle that encompassed its swelling waist. Proudly 
 beat the heart of the Chief as he gazed on that bul- 
 wark of his power, and long did he fix his eyes 
 untiring on the noble prospect, as he mentally ex- 
 claimed, " Though in the tented field my deadly foe 
 may triumph, yet there, in that eagle's eirie, every 
 human effort I may safely set at defiance. 
 
 Maugree poured forth its martial throngs to greet 
 the conqueror ; and multitudes of every age hurried 
 out in their gayest attire, with drums beating, 
 trumpets blowing, and gaudy pennons flaunting on 
 the breeze. - The numbers on foot and horseback, the 
 rapidity and confusion of their movements, the lively 
 colours of their dresses, the shining of their arms, and 
 the glittering of their golden banners, all gratified the 
 eye, and pleased the martial taste of the victor ; while 
 their shouts of welcome and songs of triumph were 
 delightful to his car ; and the consciousness that he 
 ruled over a devoted people, with the unlimited
 
 THE JUNGLE DURBAE. 135 
 
 power of a despot, was flattering to his vanity and 
 pride. 
 
 But tliere was one little incident tliat touched the 
 heart of the Chief, and wrought upon his feelings, 
 until tears of unchecked emotion gushed from his 
 eyes : this was the arrival of a young and lovely boy, 
 who was lifted up on the elephant by his attendants, 
 and placed in his arms. It was his son — his only 
 child ; the heir of his martial fame, and the successor 
 to his musnud. With unequalled delight he pressed 
 him in his arms, kissed his smiling face, and smelt 
 his curly head — a mode of evincing intense affec- 
 tion and paternal yearning still common in India, 
 and a very ancient Oriental practice ; while innocent 
 and happy tears ran down the flushed cheek of the 
 warrior. Blessed power of nature ! how often do the 
 stubborn heart and wayward will melt at one potent 
 touch of thine ! Not aU those fleeting joys, too often 
 won by fraud or strife — not all the pride of victory, 
 "when, in the first of his fields, the shout of triumph 
 burst from his exulting bosom, could equal the 
 heavenly calm that sprang from one pure and holy 
 kiss ; which, as the infant twined its Httle arms round 
 his neck smilingly, that parent gave his only child. 
 
 But as he gave that fond paternal kiss, the curse of 
 the dying Charun for the first time smote heavily on 
 his heart. In the excitement of the battle and the 
 joUities wliich succeeded, Kempc had scarcely wasted 
 
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 136 SAYIXDROOG. 
 
 a thouglit on tlie self-doomed victim of his enter- 
 prise : but this happy meeting with his youthful heir 
 brou2;ht the frio-htful end of the enthusiast to his 
 memory. In all the vividness of Its attendant horrors ; 
 and as he pressed the boy to his heart, the terrible 
 denunciation, that he himself should henceforth live a 
 " doomed and childless man," blighted his enjoyment, 
 and cast an Icy shadow over his bright anticipations. 
 
 With the stubborn tenacity of hope th^ Bheel 
 vainly endeavoured to force himself Into a belief 
 that the Charun's curse was an empty threat, fulmi- 
 nated in a moment of expiring agony ; but the 
 sacred character of the victim, hallowed by the 
 superstitions of his country, with w^hlch he was most 
 deeply tinctured, forbade him to lay that flatter- 
 ing unction to his soul. In spite of every effort, 
 therefore, he could not divest himself of the fearful 
 idea that his doom would speedily evince itself In a 
 bereavement he could not contemplate without ex- 
 cruciating agony; and with a sickening pang of 
 despondency, he endeavoured to dismiss the subject, 
 by indalging his fervid imagination In dreams of 
 future aggrandisement, and forming plans of festivity 
 to dissipate the care that lay heavy on his soul. 
 
 With this view, a grand Durbar, or Koyal Levee, 
 was announced soon after Kempe's return to his little 
 capital, to be followed by a variety of entertainments, 
 in honour of his birth-day, which had now arrived ;
 
 THE JUNGLE DUP.BAR. 137 
 
 and, as might be expected, the fame of his late exploit 
 attracted a numerous and splendid attendance, unpre- 
 cedented even in the annals of his once illustrious 
 house. 
 
 The happy day was ushered in by a brilliant 
 sun, and the towers and battlements of Maugree, 
 decorated with flags, standards, and pennants, shone 
 forth in martial splendour. IMany a wild blast of the 
 Collary horn echoed through the jungle ; and from the 
 woody hills that rose like an amphitheatre round the 
 capital, the Bheels came flocking down with joyous 
 alacrity ; each bearing some little mizzur, or present, 
 according to his means — a shawl, a few rupees, a 
 basket of fruit, or a garland of flowers, to grace the 
 festival of his gallant and victorious Dhunnee.^ The 
 Polygars of some neighbouring Droogs and jungle 
 strongholds, who were on friendly terms with Kempe 
 Goud, also arrived with martial clangour and pic- 
 turesque retinues, to congratulate their brother Chief- 
 tain on his late splendid achievement. In fine, 
 throughout the whole forest region which surrounded 
 Savindroog, its warlike inhabitants flocked one and 
 all to the festival ; some out of regard to the gallantry 
 and generosity of Kempe, some in awe of his poAvcr 
 and vindictive spirit ; but the great mass to spend a 
 few days of idle festivity, to witness the sports and 
 pageantry, and to partake of the hospitable entcrtain- 
 
 * Sovercitrn lord. A Blieel term for the Chief of the tribe.
 
 138 SAYINDROOG. 
 
 ment which they knew would be amply prepared for 
 them. 
 
 The residence of the Chief was a large building, 
 handsomely decorated with the fresco painting peculiar 
 to the country, at the upper end of a broad street in the 
 town of Maugree, which is situated in a fertile valley, 
 a few miles distant from Savindroog. The principal 
 entrance was surrounded by a train of Chohdars, 
 showily dressed, and bearing long silver maces in 
 their hands: here the visitors were received by 
 the Burwans *, who conducted them through the 
 first court of " the palace ; " Kempc's house being now, 
 for the first time, honoured with this regal appellation. 
 At the entrance to the next court they were received 
 by other functionaries, with ivory wands curiously 
 carved, by whom they were led along a corridor, 
 between rows of richly armed Bheels, into the 
 Dewankhana j? where Kempe was seated in a style 
 of royal state and splendour which he had never, on 
 any occasion, assumed before. 
 
 The floor of the Dewankhana was laid with white 
 quilted cloth, and carpets were placed along the sides 
 for the accommodation of the company. The Chief 
 was seated at the upper end, on a carpet of Cashmeer 
 shawl, supported by cushions of gold-coloured silk ; 
 his right arm resting on a shield of burnished steel, 
 
 * " Masters of the door," or gentlemen ushers, 
 t Hall of audience.
 
 THE JUNGLE DUKBAE. 139 
 
 whicli slione like a mirror, and the bosses and rim of 
 which were set with diamonds and rubies. He wore a 
 turban of many colours, richly adorned with jewels ; 
 with armlets of turquoises set in gold, and strings of 
 pearls, of immense size and value, round his neck. His 
 bow, quiver of arrows, tulwar and dagger, all hand- 
 somely inlaid with gold and sparkling with brilliants, 
 were placed before him on his carpet throne ; and a 
 richly-gemmed hookah stood by his side, on a green 
 velvet carpet embroidered with gold. The mouth- 
 piece glittered with diamonds, and his fingers, as he 
 held it, shone with amethysts and rubies. On his left 
 hand sat his youthful heir, who, already a warrior, 
 wore a jewelled sword in his belt ; and from a latticed 
 gallery at the lower end of the hall, the female part 
 of Kempe's family commanded an excellent view of 
 the whole pageantry. 
 
 Around the Chief stood many of his principal fol- 
 lowers; fierce-looking fellows, of rude, uncourtly 
 mien and manners, several of them with deep 
 scars on their rough visages. A little removed 
 from the presence sat Eungapa and some inferior 
 Bhauts, Avith venerable long white beards, singing 
 the praises of Kempe and his heroic ancestors ; while, 
 leaning against a pillar, stood the court jester, a shrewd, 
 impudent-looking fellow, licensed to bandy jokes 
 even with royalty itself; and who, beside his occu- 
 pation of finding wit to relieve the dulness of court
 
 140 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 conversation, was also superiDtendent of the nautch- 
 women and master of the revels. 
 
 The grand court usher having announced in 
 succession the Polygars of Hooleadroog, Ootradroog, 
 Nundydroog, Shevagunga, and Burra Ballapoor, 
 besides several inferior Turwees and feudatories 
 entitled to the honour of the Dewankhana, all took 
 their places on the side carpets ; with that strict 
 attention to etiquette and precedence, by v*^hich all 
 meetings in the East are so scrupulously regulated. 
 As affable as he was brave, the Bheel gave a hearty 
 welcome to all, and bestowed his smiles and compli- 
 ments with equal judgment and liberality ; but it was 
 also remarked by all with surprise, and with mortifi- 
 cation by many of the visitors, who boasted equal 
 rank and power with Kempe, that he never once 
 rose to receive them higher than to his knees ; a suffi- 
 cient indication that he considered all present as his 
 acknowledged inferiors. 
 
 . The customary inquiries after the respective health 
 and prosperity of the Chief and his guests having mu- 
 tually taken place, the latter presented their niizzurs, 
 consisting generally of rupees, star pagodas and gold 
 mohurs, according to their means and dignity, which 
 the chief put into a silver basin by his side ; salaming 
 at the same time with an air of gracious condescension 
 and patronising regard, which was far from pleasing to 
 all his guests. Nuzzurs were also presented to the
 
 THE JUNGLE DUEBAR. 141 
 
 young heir of Savindroog, who received them with 
 that early tact and self-possession which distinguish 
 children in the East. Then followed the investiture 
 of the guests with the khelauts, or dresses of honour ; 
 which were accompanied hj presents of shawls and 
 gilks, horses richly caparisoned, chain and plate armour 
 of steel inlaid with gold, quivers richly emlrroidered, 
 matchlocks, shields, spears, helmets, swords, and 
 daggers ; all highly wrought in gold and steel, and 
 affording ample proofs not only of the generosity bat 
 royal munificence of the gallant Kempe. 
 
 Amongst others the one-eyed Bheel presented as 
 his nuzzur the hilt of his formidable Dhoop ; and 
 Kempe having touched it, in token of acceptance, 
 poured several handfuls of rupees into the hollow 
 tube, or guard, of the terrible weapon which had com- 
 mitted such havoc in the late engagement. 
 
 ^^ Jey Doorga Bhavani!^'' cried the jester, "the 
 butcher is well paid for the oxen he has slaughtered, 
 and can afford to give away the horns." 
 
 The wife of the ferocious Bheel having recently 
 eloped with a handsome paramour, the point of this 
 pleasantry was highly relished, and a general laugh 
 went round the circle at his expense. He left the 
 presence somewhat abashed, casting a scowl of 
 vengeance at his tormentor ; who, however, levelled 
 another jest or two at him as he retired, of a less
 
 142 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 delicate character, but equally well received hy the 
 company. 
 
 Kempe now called for the Kusoombah, and a large 
 wassail-bowl of pure gold was brought in by one of 
 the attendants. In this a lump of opium was placed, 
 and water being poured upon it, a solution was 
 speedily made, with a golden spoon^ of the bitter and 
 intoxicating drug. Having performed an ablution, 
 the Chief took some of the liquor into the palm of his 
 right hand, and offered it to his principal guest : the 
 latter in a similar manner helped the next in dignity, 
 and so on all round the circle, Kempe himself par- 
 taking of the beverage last of all; an ancient and 
 indispensable rite, which is deemed an inviolable and 
 almost sacred pledge of friendship, insuring oblivion 
 of past injuries, and mutual confidence for the future. 
 
 " The Kusoombah is more bitter than usual, and 
 requires an extra allowance of comfit balls," sarcasti- 
 cally observed the jester, "if one may judge by the 
 wry faces of some of the company.'' 
 
 The remark was not made at random ; for the as- 
 sumption of superior state on the part of Kempe, and 
 the studied ostentation of his gifts, had disgusted the 
 principal Poly gars present ; who felt the equality of 
 their pretensions rebuked, as it were, too decidedly in 
 the presence of their own dependents. But what was 
 their mortification when Kempe, whose pride and 
 vanity were wonderfully inflated by his recent
 
 THE JUNGLE DURBAR. 143 
 
 victory, announced in a loud and liaughty voice his 
 intention to assume in future the style and title of 
 Maha Eajah, or Sovereign Prince of Savindroog, 
 Maugree, and their Dependencies; with all the 
 forest, woodlands, hunting-grounds, lakes, rivers, 
 &c. &c. thereunto belonging, in seculce seculorum. 
 
 '^ Jey Kali! Jey Mahadeo!''' exclaimed the jester, 
 " if the Maha Eajah has blackened the faces of his 
 enemies, he has at least whitened those of his friends ! " 
 
 This v/as literally true ; for the principal Poly gars 
 became absolutely pale with rage, at finding themselves 
 so totally eclipsed by one who had hitherto stood on 
 equal footing with themselves. Significant looks 
 and furtive smiles passed round the circle of mortified 
 Chiefs at this haughty assumption of regal power, 
 which appeared to them supremely ridiculous ; seeing 
 that Savindroog, after all, was nothing more than a 
 barren rock, and jNIaugree little better than a mud 
 fort, adorned vvith two or three crumbling pagodas. 
 They all, however, recollected the proverb that " it 
 is not civil to laugh at the lion with your head 
 in his mouth ; " and treasuring up their thoughts for 
 a fitter opportunity, they joined heartily in the voci- 
 ferous acclamations which the unexpected announce- 
 ment of the Maha Kajah had called forth from his 
 devoted subjects. 
 
 Kempe having thus made so decided an advance to 
 sovereignty, without experiencing any opposition.
 
 144 . SAVINDROOG. 
 
 now figain interrapted the conversation, which had 
 become general, to announce a series of state appoint- 
 ments consequent on the assumption of this new 
 dignity ; for even the lowest plundering Chief in India 
 has his minister and other officers proportionate to his 
 lands and followers ; and affects all the machinery of 
 state etiquette, with as much pertinacity as the 
 descendant of the great Baber himself. 
 
 The first appointment announced was that of the 
 Bhaut Kungapa to the post of " Dewan, or Prime 
 Minister, and Keeper of the Records ; " which ap- 
 peared to give general satisfaction, especially to the 
 jester ; who having, in his quaint way, congratulated 
 the venerable bard, on his new dignity, exclaimed : 
 
 " Jey Bhavani Devi ! the poor old man has at last 
 got an easy berth of it : for all our state affairs are 
 transacted with the bow and arrow ; and his Becord- 
 office will give him very little trouble where nobody 
 writes, from the prince to the peasant." 
 
 The next appointment was that of " Collector of 
 Boyal Dues, and Superintendent of Plunder," in 
 which the jester, with a grave face, requested to be 
 included as a partner. 
 
 ^' Why so, father of owls ? " demanded Kerape, half 
 smiling. 
 
 "Because," replied the jester, "if my colleague 
 loves a sinecure, he may collect your highness's dues, 
 and I'll take charge of the business department."
 
 THE JUNGLE DUEBAR. 145 
 
 Then followed other appointments, such as the 
 " Keeper of Prisoners," the " Intelligencer and Road 
 Watcher," and the " Head Executioner," which post 
 was given to Ballokee Doss, the one-eyed Bheel, in 
 consideration of his slauo-htering; abilities. 
 
 " With submission," said the jester, *'•' you should 
 rather make him your Highness's cup-bearer." 
 
 A laugh went round the circle at this allusion to 
 the adventure of the taree-pot, an exploit which 
 seemed to yield immeasurable satisfaction ; and Bal- 
 lokee Doss was called forward to receive the comj^li- 
 ments of the assembly, and a fresh largess for his 
 dexterity. 
 
 The last appointment was that of Havildar, or 
 Commander of Cavalry, which was bestowed on 
 the gallant Yega, for his bravery in the late action. 
 
 " Poor fellow ! " cried the jester, " I'm glad your 
 Hio'hness has oiven him a horse at last." 
 " Why so, fool ? " demanded Kempe. 
 " Because he can now carry off Lilla the dancer 
 with greater facility," was the ready reply. 
 
 " Hogee ! son of a sow ! " cried Kempe, with a 
 sudden burst of passion ; " are beards cheap that you 
 dare to laugh at ours in this assembly ? Silence, 
 Banchoot, and beware of the Kahoos ! " 
 
 " Jey Doorga Bhavani ! " said the jester in a half 
 whisper, " the arrow has hit the mark in the centre. 
 I thought I saw a hole in his Highness's poshauk." 
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 146 SAVIXDEOOG. 
 
 Previous to the rising of the Durbar, the Maha 
 Eajah and his new minister distributed badges of dis- 
 tinction to all the survivors of the late victory, and 
 standards inscribed with the name of the battle they 
 had won. Gold chains were placed round the necks 
 of the principal leaders ; and garlands of silver fringe 
 and tissue distributed amongst the privates, who all 
 regarde4 their well-earned decorations with pride 
 and satisfaction far beyond their intrinsic value, as 
 memorials of their beloved chieftain's approbation. 
 They did not, however, escape the waggery of the 
 jester, who very gravely congratulated them on being 
 now very excellent gingerbread soldiers. 
 
 The ceremony of rokhsid, or leave-taking, was 
 then performed by Kempe, who presented paun and 
 sv/eetmeats to his guests, and sprinkled them with 
 rose-water and attar of roses ; for until that piece of 
 etiquette had taken place, no one could retire without 
 o-ivino; offence. 
 
 " Jey Camadeo!^'' exclaimed the jester, *' they 
 who take bitters from the hand require to be spoon- 
 fed when it comes to the sweets." 
 
 It was, accordingly, remarked by the principal 
 Polygars, with feelings of wounded pride and re- 
 sentment, that, instead of presenting the confectionary 
 in a gold or silver jjctundaun, or tray, which would 
 imply a footing of equality, Kempe gave it them 
 with his hand, which broadly indicated the superiority
 
 THE JUXGLE DUEBAE. 147 
 
 of the donor. In India these nice distinctions are 
 very carefully preserved ; and neglect, either studied 
 or accidental, on such jDoints of etiquette, is not only 
 keenly felt, but sometimes severely revenged : no 
 indication, however, of their private feelings was 
 permitted to escape by the humbled chiefs, who all 
 hurried forth to assist in and enjoy, if they could,, 
 the second act of the day's entertainments.
 
 148 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 CHAP. XII. 
 
 THE JUNXUM-POOTEE. 
 
 The festival which had now arrived, denominated the 
 Saul-girrak *, or Birth-day of the Chieftain, is cele- 
 brated in India with great magnificence by all who lay 
 any claim to wealth or dignity ; but more than ordi- 
 nary solemnity and importance were attached to the 
 present anniversary : for, by a happy coincidence, it 
 Avas the identical one appointed for unrolling and de- 
 ciphering the Jimnum-pootee, or mystic scroll inscribed 
 with the horoscope of the Chief, cast at his nativity, 
 and containing a prediction of his future destiny. 
 
 A belief in judicial astrology having prevailed 
 throughout the East from the earliest periods this 
 is an invariable practice with Hindoos of high rank, 
 who wear the Junnum-iiootee on their persons until 
 the day appointed for its unrolling : the custom is 
 also duly maintained of making a knot on the 
 string which is tied round the scroll (until the mystic 
 number is complete) every succeeding birthday ; on 
 which occasions the Chief receives the visits of his 
 
 * This compound term is formed of Saul, a year, and girrah^ 
 to tie a knot.
 
 THE JUNNUM-POOTEE. 149 
 
 friends and brother Polygars, to drink the husoomba^ 
 and congratulate him on adding another " knot to his 
 years." 
 
 The new Maha Eajah and his superstitious fol- 
 lowers looked forward anxiously to the development 
 of the grand secret which was to signalise this solemn 
 anniversary ; and, prompted by vanity as well as the 
 natural liberality of his disposition, Kempe had made 
 extraordinary preparations for its due observance. 
 The arrangement of the ceremonial was confided, as 
 usual, to the venerable Bhaut, Rungapa ; who failed 
 not to give a conspicuous position to the captured 
 elephant, camels, and chargers of the defeated My- 
 soreans, in drawing up his programme of a grand 
 procession to the temple of Slahadeo : there the Rajah 
 purposed offering up to the Destroying Power, and 
 founder of his race, the golden Moorut and ricl* 
 presents which constituted the oimna spolia of his 
 late victory. 
 
 All matters of etiquette being, at length, finally 
 adjusted, the cortege set forth in the following order : 
 ■ — First, according to the programme of the venerable 
 Bhaut, appeared two camels decorated with rich 
 trappings and gaudy pennons, and bearing the royal 
 nagras, which were beat with single dubs from time 
 to time : these were followed by several files of 
 Sowars * in chain armour, mounted on tlie chargers 
 
 * Cavaliers, ti'oopers.
 
 150 SAVIXDROOG. 
 
 of the slauglitered Eajapoots, and armed with lances, 
 swords, and targets. Next came a band of trum- 
 peters, whose Collary horns poured forth a strain of 
 wild and martial music. To these succeeded a bevy 
 of dancing girls, whose youthful beauty and graceful 
 movements captivated the hearts of the spectators ; 
 and immediately after a young elephant, bearing in a 
 glittering how^dah the golden Moorut, destined by the 
 Ranee of Mysore for the temple of Vishnu, but now 
 on its way to the altar of Mahadeo. 
 
 But all this pageantry, splendid however it might 
 be, was totally eclipsed by the noble elephant Avhich 
 had borne the Yakeel of Mysore into the fatal terri- 
 tories of Kempe Goud. The gorgeous trappings of 
 this gigantic but docile creature excited universal ad- 
 miration ; and the glittering howdah that surmounted 
 his back was now occupied by the new Maha Rajah 
 and his Ranee ; a fair Rajpootnl, of the Chundawut 
 tribe of Me war, famous in the annals of their country 
 for those military virtues which distinguish their 
 glorious Caste. 
 
 The occasion was eshilaratino; in a hio'h decrree ; 
 but a gloomy cloud lay heavily on the brow of the 
 Ranee, which even the martial pageantry of the 
 scene could not dissipate ; for bitter disappointment 
 and blighted hopes had long been corroding her 
 proud but affectionate heart. IMany years were not 
 gone by since Kempe had won the virgin love of his
 
 THE JUXXUM-POOTEE. 151 
 
 fair bride, by a display of that gallantry for which 
 he was remarkable, in a tournament at Oodlpoor; 
 where, under the assumed character of a Rajapoot 
 chief of Malwa, he had the hardihood to mingle with 
 the nobles of her native land. An elopement was 
 the result ; but it was not until their arrival at Savin- 
 droog that the fair Rajpootni discovered the imposture 
 of the Bheel. This gave the first shock to her lofty 
 spirit, which was still further assailed by the total 
 estrangement of her kindred and former friends, wdio 
 could not for an instant brook the indignity of wed- 
 ding to a Bheel and a Soodra, an heiress of the 
 Chundawut, and a daughter of the sun. 
 
 Still, however, though an exile from her darling 
 Rajasthan, and a despised outcast from her pre- 
 eminent tribe, the fair Meena Bauee could have 
 braved the scorn of the world and the malice of fate, 
 had she found in her domestic seclusion the hap- 
 piness she had so fondly anticipated. But, alas ! she 
 too soon discovered that her foncied hero was a 
 heartless profligate, reckless of her misery, and stu- 
 dious alone of his own gross and sensual pleasures ; 
 in which he indulged to the frequent outrage not 
 only of her lacerated feelings but even of the ordi- 
 nary decorum due to his rank and station. 
 
 The honour of the wife and the spirit of the Eaj- 
 pootni alike revolted against the destroyer of her 
 happiness, and wrought a fearful change in the dream 
 
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 152 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 of her first love. Thenceforth Kempe, though once 
 as dear to her as the rose Is to the nightingale, was 
 nothing more than the monstrous reality of a once 
 beautiful vision; and while the scalding tear of 
 blighted aiFection stained her soft cheek, she felt that 
 one tie alone kept her from that despair and death 
 which, with the Rajapoot, may be said to be synony- 
 mous terms. This was the young and lovely fruit of 
 her virgin affections — her blooming boy; and to 
 perform her sacred duty to this her last and only 
 hope, with the fond maternal skill implanted by 
 nature in her breast, was now the sole and all-en- 
 grossing delight of her pure, though fast-withering 
 heart. 
 
 Immediately after the Maha Eajah appeared his 
 young Bheelalah Chief, mounted on his father's 
 favourite charger, led by two youthfal pages. Then 
 followed the friendly Polygars with their picturesque 
 retinues ; to whom succeeded the Mysorean camels, 
 laden with the costly presents intended for the 
 Brahmins of Mailcottah ; and the procession was 
 finally closed by a party of Bbeels, armed with the 
 matchlocks of Bahauder Hafiz and his unlucky com- 
 panions. 
 
 In this order the procession moved on at a slow 
 and stately pace, to the admiration of immense crowds 
 of spectators, singing the praises of their gallant 
 Chief, and calling on the gods to increase the pros-
 
 THE JUNNUM-POOTEE. 153 
 
 perity of his house. At the temple of Mahadeo the 
 self-created Eajah and his still lovely queen were 
 received by Eungapa, the officiating priest; who led 
 them up to the altar on which stood the Lingam*, 
 or generative symbol of that awful deity who makes 
 the suiTerino' nations groan, and rules the world with 
 a rod of iron. 
 
 Having offered up their thanksgivings, which the 
 priest assured them were favourably received, the 
 Eanee with devout and graceful mien presented at 
 the altar, on a richly-embroidered Charkobf, the 
 golden Moorut which her gallant lord had captured 
 from the followers of Vishnu. It was placed at the 
 base of the Lingam stone; and the Bhaut assured 
 the pious donor, that, by celestial indications which 
 none but he understood, the offering had met with a 
 favourable reception from the mighty Siva, whose 
 destroying attributes would be more than ever di- 
 rected against the enemies of the Maha Rajah. Nu- 
 merous rich presents were then offered to the officiating 
 priests and attendants of the temple, and met with an 
 equally favourable reception. 
 
 The deity being thus propitiated, Kempe Goud 
 
 * Mahadeo Is worshipped under the form of the Lingam, or 
 Phallus, which is a symbol of him in his generative character. 
 It is a conical-shaped stone, the base of which is inserted in 
 the Yoni, or mystical matrix. 
 
 f A square shawl, or napkin of cloth of gold, which is used 
 as a mark of rank and distinction.
 
 154 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 released from Kis neck the Jiinnum-'pootee, or mystic 
 scroll, containing the prediction of his future destiny ; 
 which was enclosed in a velvet cover, carefully sealed, 
 and richly ornamented with rubies and diamonds. 
 
 Having devoutly kissed this precious talisman, now 
 for the first time removed from where it had been ori- 
 ginally suspended, the Chieftain placed it in the hands 
 of the high priest, entreating him to decipher its 
 hidden meaning, and declare to the world the nature 
 of its contents. The venerable E-ungapa received 
 the sacred document with profound respect, and 
 placed it on his head, in token of unbounded reverence 
 for the will of destiny ; which, whether auspicious or 
 otherwise, he held it to be the indispensable duty of 
 mortals to bow to with submission and respect. 
 
 The Bhaut then placed the scroll upon the altar, 
 first sprinkling it with water from the Ganges ; and 
 having offered up a prayer to Bhavani Devi for a 
 propitious result, he at length, with trembling hands, 
 broke the seal, and disclosed the awful fiat of destiny 
 to public view. It was written in letters of gold on 
 a sort of yellow parchment, made of the skin of the 
 hog-deer, which is used on occasions of great cere- 
 mony, and is precious from its scarcity. The 
 characters were strange and the dialect ancient ; but 
 the Bhaut appeared to read it with facility, while a 
 smile of triumph illumined his features, a sure 
 indication of its auspicious contents.
 
 THE JLNNUM-POOTEE. 155 
 
 Breathless expectation chained the faculties of the 
 spectators, while the venerable priest unrolled the 
 parchment; and all hung forward in eager anxiety 
 to catch every syllable he uttered, as in a Icud and 
 sonorous voice he thus read its strange contents : — 
 
 THE HOEOSCOPE. 
 
 The Rock of death shall j)roudly shine^ 
 The bulwark of thy conq'ring line, 
 Till Virtue change the molten lead 
 
 To cold pellucid water ! 
 And thou thy deadly foe shalt wed 
 
 To a monarch's only daughter! 
 
 Loud acclamations pealed through the sacred 
 edifice at this propitious indication of the will of 
 fate, and all present hastened to congratulate the 
 Maha Kajah on the brilliant prospect that now lay 
 before him. !N^othing, they all declared, could be 
 plainer than the favourable disposition of the gods ; 
 who had evidently placed his destiny in his own hands, 
 by the power he possessed of withholding his consent 
 to the marriage and consequent exaltation of his 
 deadliest foe, in whom all seemed, with one accord, to 
 recognise Prince Kistna ; while the " monarch's only 
 daughter " as clearly indicated Lachema, the peerless 
 Begum of Mysore. 
 
 Kempc himself, elated with the promised per- 
 petuity of glory, felt his ideas expand beyond the 
 power of control; and yielding to the sweet dc-
 
 156 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 lusion, nothing but visions of universal conquest 
 swam before bis eyes. The idea of any let or 
 hinderance to his career was too preposterous to be 
 entertained for an instant; and he laughed at the 
 strange alternatives from which alone he could anti- 
 cipate a change of fortune. 
 
 ^^Methinks," he mentally exclaimed, "in such a 
 world as ours, that virtue must indeed be rare which 
 can boast the transcendent powers of changing the 
 molten lead to cold pellucid water. And Kistna, my 
 deadliest foe ! may his father's grave be defiled ! shaU 
 burn in his ambitious flame ere I consent that he 
 shall wed the peerless fawn of Mysore; the only 
 daughter of the monarch, indicated by destiny. 
 With such a talisman as this I may well defy aught 
 that is born of woman, be he juggling Charun or 
 proud Mysorean ; nor need I bow the head to any 
 other power than thee, Mahadeo, my guardian, guide, 
 and friend I " 
 
 The connection which, according to the mysterious 
 scroll of his destiny, appeared to exist between him 
 and the Princess of Mysore, was another fertile source 
 of rumination to the ambitious Polygar. He turned 
 it over in his mind in every possible shape ; but, 
 with singular pertinacity, he always came to the 
 same conclusion, that he himself was clearly indicated 
 by fate as the future husband of the Fawn-eyed 
 maid.
 
 THE JUNNUM-POOTEE. 157 
 
 This happy solution of the enigma would not only 
 effectually consolidate his power, according to the 
 occult meaning of the prediction, but it would also 
 exclude his hated rival from the throne of Mysore : 
 nay, it would actually elevate himself to that splendid 
 station, and place at his disposal means which, with 
 his acknowledged military talents, might enable him 
 ultimately to extend his sway from Cape Comorin to 
 the river Indus. The annals of the East were 
 fruitful in similar transitions ; and experience proved 
 that in a country Avhere the ruling deity was the 
 goddess of destruction, the Avarrior's sword opened 
 the readiest path to power and dominion. 
 
 In short, to so happy a consummation of his 
 wishes there was, Kempe conceived, only one obstacle ; 
 and here he looked at his once tender and affec- 
 tionate Meena Bauee ; w^ho, far from fathoming 
 the bright visions of her lord, was just then feasting 
 her eyes on her darling son, and exulting in the 
 hope of his assured prosperity, so clearly indicated 
 by the horoscope of his father. 
 
 " The laws of Menu, it is true," thought the 
 Bheel, " countenance polygamy in a certain degree ; 
 but I can scarcely expect that the proud and potent 
 Rajah of Mysore will ever consent to subject his 
 dauirhter to the ambi2:uous honours of a divided 
 bed. A patient and steady observation of passing
 
 158 SAVIXDROOG. 
 
 events, is clearly the j^art I have now to act ; for I 
 can entertain no doubt whatever that tune and 
 propitious destiny will work another wonder for the 
 accomplishment of my wishes, and the completion of 
 my horoscope."
 
 THE CONSPIRATORS. 159 
 
 CHAP. XIII. 
 
 THE CONSPIRATORS. 
 
 The procession returned to the palace of the Maha 
 Eajah in the same order, and the people hurried off 
 to enjoy the festivities of the day. Two persons, 
 hoAvever, lingered behind the rest ; and, as if urged 
 by one common impulse, taking shelter from the 
 overpowering heat of the sun beneath the spreading 
 branches of a Banyan tree, they sat down in moody 
 silence on a stone bench that surrounded one of its 
 numerous trunks. 
 
 They were Trimbuckjee, the Polygar of Hoolea- 
 droog, and Gokla, the Chief of Ootradroog ; two of 
 those friends who only a few hours before had shared 
 the draught of amity and forgiveness with the new 
 Maha Rajah. These Chieftains, as before mentioned, 
 had been compelled to acknowledge the supremacy 
 of jMysore, though their tribute of vassalage was 
 limited to the annual presentation at the Dusserah 
 feast of a cucumber and a few Cherauncha nuts: 
 this being the policy of the Mysore Rajalis towards 
 the Polygars whom they had conquered, which aimed 
 at a gradual reduction of the direct authority of the 
 latter, rather than its immediate extinction.
 
 160 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 Such of these Chiefs as consented to the payment 
 of a moderate peishcush, and performed their miUtary 
 services with fidehty, were permitted to retain the 
 exercise of the pohce and of the civil government 
 within their respective poUams (as their possessions 
 were designated) ; while the districts of the refractory 
 were generally annexed as conquests to the Circar, or 
 government lands. Between these two categories of 
 refractory and tributary, the Polygars of Hooleadroog 
 and Ootradroog were now vacillating ; for though 
 they had presented their cucumbers, in propria forma^ 
 at Mysore, they had drunk the kusoomba with the 
 mortal enemy of that state, and perhaps with equal 
 good faith towards both. Of this, however, we shall 
 be better able to judge from the tenor of the con- 
 versation which now ensued between them. 
 
 The silence was first broken by Trimbuckjee, a 
 little, old, cunning-looking personage ; whose twink- 
 ling eyes were constantly in motion, as if in search of 
 matter for his subtle mind to work upon : addressing 
 his companion, who was a tall, blunt, martial-looking 
 figure, he said, in smooth, insinuating tones : — 
 
 "What think you, noble Gokla, of the sudden 
 elevation of our royal brother to the sovereignty of 
 this sublime and fruitless wilderness ? " 
 
 " Think ! " exclaimed Gokla, with an explosion of 
 long pent-up wrath. " By Doorga ! I think myself a 
 downright ass, to submit with patience to his
 
 THE CONSPIRATORS. 161 
 
 absurd pretensions, and to follow his tawdry proces- 
 sion like a tame and hoodwinked leopard." 
 
 ^' Jey GanesaV said the wily Polygar, "therein, 
 worthy Gokla, you showed most excellent sense 
 and discretion. Any other line of conduct would 
 only have exposed you to the resentment of the 
 usurper, without benefiting that common cause 
 which we, as independent Chiefs, are bound by 
 mutual interest to support." 
 
 " I hate myself for my base compliance," replied 
 the impetuous Gokla, " to such a degree that I could 
 tear my flesh with rage." 
 
 "That," said Trimbuckjee, "would only hurt 
 yourself, whereas your object should be to hurt your 
 enemy." 
 
 " By the skull-chaplet of Maha Kali ! " cried Gokla, 
 " I'll instantly quit the territories of the upstart, and 
 hurl defiance in his teeth." 
 
 "^z GuniputtyV^ responded the prudent Trim- 
 buckjee, appealing to his favourite deity, " with sub- 
 mission to your better judgment, I think you should 
 rather wait until those friends Avho admire your 
 courage and military skill are prepared to make 
 common cause with you against the tyrant." 
 
 "Whom do you allude to?" demanded Gokla. 
 " As far as I can perceive, all the other Chiefs have 
 submitted to the gross affront as tamely as I have 
 done myself." 
 
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 162 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " They have appeared to do so," replied Trimbuck- 
 jee; "but resentment rankles in their breasts, and 
 they, one and all, long for a proper opportunity to 
 gratify their laudable revenge." 
 
 " They will lose their opportunity by delay," said 
 the impatient Gokla. 
 
 " On thp contrary," replied Trimbuckjee, " a little 
 delay will lull the haughty Kempe into a false 
 security, and urge him to commit some grosser 
 follies ; for I perceive that his brain is already turned 
 by the flattering tenor of his Junnum-pootee.''^ 
 
 " Jey Mahadeo ! what think you, worthy Trim- 
 buckjee, of that document?" demanded Gokla. 
 " ' Tis a singular prediction, and I can make neither 
 head nor tail of it." 
 
 " My opinion of all such prophecies," replied 
 Trimbuckjee, "has long been formed. They are ha- 
 zarded in a moment of enthusiasm by some crazy 
 star-gazer, and are always susceptible of a double 
 reading." 
 
 "That is exactly my opinion," said Gokla, who 
 had a profound reverence for the sagacity of his 
 companion. " But I cannot help thinking it singular 
 that the wiseacre who cast the nativity at the birth 
 of Kempe, should have hit upon two persons who at 
 the time were not even in existence." 
 
 " That's a sufficient proof," replied Trimbuckjee, 
 " that the prediction has no reference to the Princess
 
 THE CONSPIRATORS. 163 
 
 of Mysore and the noble Rajapoot. It is no un- 
 common thing for Rajahs to have only daughters, as 
 well as other people; and deadly enemies are, God 
 knows, common enough in these parts. As for the 
 water and the melted lead " 
 
 " Oh ! that's palpable humbug," interrupted Gokla, 
 " as indeed the whole affair must be. But the 
 fellow's horoscope is so craftily managed, that I 
 shall not be surprised if it yet lead him into a 
 quagmire." 
 
 " Doubt it not, brave Gokla," responded the wily 
 Polygar ; " it will lead him far beyond his depth, 
 and let it be our policy to wait the happy moment 
 when we can push him altogether into the gulf; for 
 this is indispensably necessary to our own safety, as 
 otherwise we shall, ere long, have to bring our peish- 
 cush to Savindroog instead of Mysore." 
 
 " Ai Bhavani Devi!^'' cried the easily-excited 
 Gokla — "I'd die a thousand deaths rather than give 
 the upstart a single cucumber." 
 
 "To that, however," observed Trimbuckjee, "I 
 am convinced we shall be reduced, unless we take 
 timely measures to prevent it. Our next draught 
 with Kempe may be far more bitter than the Ku- 
 soomba ! " 
 
 " Worthy Trimbuckjee," cried the Chief of Ootra- 
 droog, " I have a high opinion of your judgment, and 
 
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 164 SAVIXDllOOG. 
 
 would be glad to hear your idea as to the best mode 
 of proceeding." 
 
 " Willingly, brave Gokla," replied the little Poly- 
 gar, glad of this opportunity of carrying out liis 
 cunning projects. " This last expedition has gained 
 for Kempe the mortal enmity of the Rajah of Mysore 
 and the Brahmins of Mailcottah ! " 
 
 " The holy fathers," observed Gokla, " are power- 
 ful in pecuniary means and religious influence ; but 
 they are altogether worthless in the field." 
 
 ^^ Jey Cuvera!^^^ cried Trimbuckjee, "'tis money 
 buys the sword that wins the battle ! Moreover, our 
 brother Polygar of Nundydroog, the haughty Gun- 
 gadhur Shastree, who claims a sort of left-handed 
 consanguinity with the sacred Caste, will embrace, 
 with all his energy, the cause of the venerable frater- 
 nity, whose kindred he is always boasting of." 
 
 " There are some good ingredients for a con- 
 federacy, I confess," said Gokla ; " but I am averse 
 to calling in the aid of INIysore, lest, in crushing the 
 tiger, we fall into the jaws of the lion." 
 
 "Mysore will interfere," said Trimbuckjee, 
 "whether we will or no: for, independent of this 
 last insult, it strikes me that this juggling horoscope 
 is calculated to incite Kempe to contest the hand of 
 the Princess Lachema with the noble Kistna." 
 
 ^* The Hindoo Phitus, or God of riches.
 
 THE CONSPIRATORS. 165 
 
 ^'Bapre! BapreV exclaimed Gokla, "tlie man 
 will never be so mad as that comes to." 
 
 " I am of a different opinion," replied Trimbuckjee. 
 *• The unhappy Meena Bauee is a melancholy proof 
 of what he is capable of undertaking to gratify his 
 inordinate vanity : but time will show who's right.", 
 
 " I dare say you are, as usual," responded Gokla. 
 " I have the highest opinion of your judgment and 
 discretion ; but still one confounded scruple prevents 
 my hearty concurrence in all your suggestions." 
 
 " What may that be, valiant Gokla ? " demanded 
 the wily little Polygar, puckering up the skin about 
 his twinkling eyes, with a look of intense cunning. 
 
 " It is, I confess," replied Gokla, " more than the 
 fellow deserves, for he has treated me with gross in- 
 dignity. I who am at least his equal, on any 
 occasion, with sword or matchlock ! " 
 
 " Ai Bhavani Devi ! and his superior too, in field 
 and council," cried Trimbuckjee. ^^ Bajjre ! Bapre ! 
 whose dog is Kempe in the comparison ? " 
 
 " To rise no higher than his knee, when I con- 
 descended to enter his paltry Durbar ! " exclaimed 
 Gokla, lashing himself into a fume. 
 
 " And to give you the Paun with his dirty hand, 
 as if you were a branded serf and a collared vassal!" 
 remarked Trimbuckjee, fanning the flame. 
 
 " May Doorga blast him, the son of an unchaste 
 mother I " cried Gokla in a burst of passion : " but 
 
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 166 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 still, though I detest thecooly *, I cannot help feeling 
 some compunctious misgivings. After all, my friend, 
 the Kusoomha is an ancient rite and a solemn pledge.'' 
 
 ^' Ay, and a most sacred one," responded Trimbuck- 
 jee, who saw at a glance how the land lay. " Nay, 
 further, I will add, that the vengeance of Mahadeo 
 must surely fall on those who break that pledge, or 
 offer it, with a traitorous intention." 
 
 ^' Jey Mahakali!'^ cried Gokla, with a stare of 
 astonishment. "You seem to forget that we all 
 took that sacred and inviolable pledge with Kempe ! " 
 
 " Not in the least do I forget the circumstance," 
 said Trimbuckjee, with a calm smile. " We took the 
 pledge with Kempe the Pohjgar, but not with Kempe 
 the Maha Rajah ! " 
 
 " Jey Mahadeo ! " cried Gokla, with a start as if a 
 spark from heaven had illumined liis foggy under- 
 standing. 
 
 " That makes all the difference," continued Trim- 
 buckjee ; " and herein Kempe has fairly outwitted 
 himself: he introduced the Kusoomha half an hour 
 too soon ; and in drinking the sacred cup with a faith- 
 ful brother Polygar, we did not pledge ourselves to 
 keep faith with a treacherous usurper. In fact, 
 Kempe himself broke faith with us, his equals, 
 when he assumed a superior rank to which he had no 
 right or title ; and merits no other return at our 
 
 * A common porter, or drudge.
 
 THE CONSPIRATORS. 167 
 
 hands than that which we are now preparing for 
 him." 
 
 "Jey Ganesa! Jey Mahadeo ! Jey Doorga Blia- 
 vani ! " cried Gokla, embracing his brother Polygar, 
 in raptures at his unanswerable logic. " You have 
 vanquished all my scruples, sage Trimbuckjee; and 
 I am now prepared to enter, body and soul, into all 
 your plans." 
 
 *^ Praises be to the blood-loving goddess ! " responded 
 the pious Trimbuckjee, "for inspiring you with this 
 wise and noble resolution. But here comes Ballojee 
 E-am, the celebrated juggler, whom I must crave 
 permission to introduce to your acquaintance." 
 
 " A juggler ! to my acquaintance ! " exclaimed 
 Gokla, with an air of offended dignity. " For what 
 purpose, worthy Trimbuckjee ? " 
 
 " Your highness shall learn in a few words," replied 
 the wily Polygar, amused at his companion's aversion 
 to a brother conjuror. "You must know then, 
 gallant Gokla, that I am about to become juggler in 
 chief; and am preparing three or four clever mounte- 
 banks, of whom this is the principal, to get up a 
 little exhibition for this day's grand Tomaslia.'"* 
 
 " In the name of Ganesa," demanded Gokla with a 
 stare, " what can be your object in this foolery ? " 
 
 " Simply," replied Trimbuckjee, " to lay open to 
 
 * Show, festivity, merry-making. 
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 168 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 public view the sottish vanity and ambition of this 
 upstart Rajah, when by his wincing we shall the 
 more readily see how the wind sits." 
 
 " By Doorga ! that will be excellent sport," ex- 
 claimed Gokla, with all the enthusiasm of an easily- 
 excited temperament. " Let us have the conjuror by 
 all means to council." 
 
 This mysterious personage, at a sign from his em- 
 ployer, now approached; and, with a profound but 
 graceful salaam, stood in the presence of the two 
 Chiefs. He was a tall, spare figure, with a singularly 
 calm but intelligent aspect, and a penetrating eye ; 
 which, as he bent it placidly on Trimbuckjee, seemed 
 to recognise in him the workings of a kindred spli'it. 
 He was dressed in the ordinary Hindoo costume of 
 the Upper provinces ; but his conversation exhibited a 
 curious melange of Hindoo and Mussulmaun phraseo- 
 logy, the practice of which had become inveterate from 
 the necessity of accommodating his observations to 
 the mixed audiences of both classes before whom he 
 had constantly to exhibit his wonders. 
 
 " Now then, friend Ballojee," said the Poly gar, 
 " are all your spirits primed to act their several parts 
 in the day's festivities ? — nay, speak out, man, your 
 prescience should have told you there are none here 
 but friends." 
 
 " Gurreeh puricaun ! "* said Ballojee, with profound 
 
 * Protector of the poor.
 
 THE CONSPIRATORS. 169 
 
 humility, "your slave was indeed conscious that the 
 noble Gokla must be equally affected by the present 
 sinister aspect of the planets, as the puissant Trim- 
 buckjee : but whether equally inclined to conciliate 
 their benign influence, your Jimali'^ sacrifice was, I 
 confess, somewhat uncertain about." 
 
 '^ Jey Cuvera! let this be your guarantee," ex- 
 claimed Gokla, tossing a purse of star pagodas to the 
 conjuror, " that in this matter the noble Trimbuckjee 
 and I o;o hand in hand tog-ether." 
 
 "And now," said Trimbuckjee, "to business. I 
 have required your presence here, sage Ballojee, first 
 that I might honour you with an introduction to my 
 noble confrere ; and, secondly, to give you final in- 
 structions as to your day's proceedings." 
 
 The conjuror having made a most elaborate salaam 
 to Gokla, stood with arms folded on his breast in 
 meek expectation of further commands. 
 
 " Friend Ballojee," said the old Polygar, " we 
 have matter in hand of the utmost delicacy and im- 
 portance, which will call for something more elaborate 
 than the ordinary exploits of SAvallowing swords and 
 pulling out intestines." 
 
 " Je y Malta Kali ! Wisdom of Nations ! " replied 
 the juggler, " your slave has every confidence in the 
 resources of his art, and the propitious smiles of 
 Bhavani Devi. During his late sojourn at the court 
 of Delhi, your JunaJj^ sacrifice there exhibited feats
 
 170 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 which called forth the admiration even of the mighty 
 Aurungzeb." 
 
 " I doubt not in the least your transcendent 
 abilities," said the Polygar ; " but I also have been 
 reading the stars this morning, and can, perhaps, give 
 you a hint that may be useful on the occasion." 
 
 " Jey Ganesa ! " responded Ballojee with a profound 
 salaam. " To listen to the words of the wise is the 
 sure road to wisdom : and whose dog was Lokman 
 compared to my lord ? " 
 
 " You have, doubtless," said Trimbuckjee, " heard 
 of the singular prediction published this morning, 
 touching the future destiny of our new Eajah." 
 
 " Your slave had an early intimation of it, 
 Huzrut, " replied the juggler. 
 
 *^ What is your opinion of that strange prophecy ? " 
 abruptly demanded Gokla. 
 
 " KJiodawund ! " replied the conjuror with a furtive 
 smile — "I beg to represent, in the service of the 
 Huzoor, that, in the opinion of his slave, prophecies, 
 by their influence on weak and enthusiastic minds, 
 generally produce, in some sense or other, their own 
 fulfilment." 
 
 '^ Just so," said Trimbuckjee ; " and the influence 
 this mystic scroll is now exercising on Kempe Goud 
 is to set his brain wool-gathering after the lovely 
 Princess of Mysore." 
 
 The juggler received this surmise -with a look of
 
 THE CONSPIKATOKS. 171 
 
 unfeigned astonishment ; but his high opinion of the 
 Polygar's sagacity kept him silent, though still in- 
 credulous. 
 
 " Now my desire," continued Trimbuckjee, " is, that 
 you get up some little exhibition in the course of the 
 day's festivity, which may put this opinion to the 
 test, and enable us to see further the course we should 
 steer with his upstart majesty." 
 
 " Maharaj ! to hear is to obey ! " replied the obse- 
 quious conjuror. " Your Junab^s. wishes are already 
 fulfilled." 
 
 " By the skull-chaplet of Doorga ! " exclaimed 
 Gokla, " I long to enjoy the sport. Let us go, worthy 
 Trimbuckjee, and have a laugh, at least, at his Royal 
 Highness." 
 
 " With all my heart," said the cunning old Polygar, 
 smiling at the frivolity of his companion. " Let us 
 enjoy, by all means, the pleasures of the festival, but 
 never forget that a day of reckoning must come with 
 our hospitable host." 
 
 The worthy couple of malcontents having thus laid 
 the foundation of a confederacy calculated to overturn 
 and crush the self-constituted Maha Rajah, made the 
 best of their way to the palace, by different routes, in 
 order to avoid suspicion; and during the remaining 
 festivities they were the most zealous of all the 
 numerous guests in their attentions to their uncon- 
 scious victim.
 
 172 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 CHAP. XIY. 
 
 THE JUGGLER. 
 
 The festival had commenced on the plain, in whose 
 fertile bosom Maugree is situated ; and the delighted 
 subjects of the new Maha Eajah were celebrating his 
 birth-day with all the enthusiasm peculiar to their 
 race. 
 
 Mountebanks of all descriptions, such as jugglers, 
 Tiaut-pootly wallahs* yfrasaliaries], and other Avander- 
 ing artists, who abound in that region of credulity, 
 had been attracted to the secluded territory of Kempe 
 by the fame of his liberality. These were now in 
 full activity, pursuing their respective avocations to 
 the admiration of the gaping multitude; amongst 
 whom presents and refreshments of every description 
 and variety were profusely distributed by the officers 
 of the household ; whilst the lord of the feast and his 
 distinguished visitors mingled with the happy throng, 
 entering into their simple pastimes, and sharing in all 
 their joyous hilarity. 
 
 One part of the field displayed a foot-race between 
 
 * Puppet-show men, who in India are of a very superior 
 description to their European brethren, 
 ■j" Strolling actors.
 
 THE JUGGLER. 173 
 
 a party of Bheels, whose active limbs and eager eyes 
 were strained to the utmost to win the embroidered 
 shawl that flaunted in the distance. Another party 
 were wheeling the Muckdurs* round their heads, 
 and bending the steel bow, to win some handsome 
 prize appropriate to the occasion. Beyond, a body 
 of cavalry were scouring across the plain, waging a 
 mimic war, retreating and advancing by turns ; their 
 shields and lances glittering in the sun, and their 
 golden pennons flapping in the breeze. Beside the 
 jungle's shady screen a band of archers were ex- 
 hibiting the wondrous accuracy of aim for which the 
 Bheels are celebrated: some of their arrows were 
 pointed, some crescent-shaped, some had flat, sharp 
 edges, and others were furnished with rounded heads 
 to stun or slightly wound. The elasticity and power 
 of their bows, which were made of bamboo, sent the 
 '^ winged messengers " an incredible distance ; and 
 woe to the bird that ventured to hover within ransce, 
 for neither the irregularity of its motions nor the 
 rapidity of its flight could save it from the deadly 
 weapons. 
 
 Another part of the plain was occupied by the 
 Jhettries^ a tribe of Athleta? for which the Mysore 
 was famous, and who claim as their patron Crishna 
 (or Kistna) the Hindoo Apollo. These combatants, 
 
 * Heavy clubs of teak or blackwood, used something like 
 dumb-bells, for exercising? the muscles of the chest and arms.
 
 1 74 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 clad in a single garment of light orange-coloured 
 drawers extending halfway down the thigh, and 
 adorned with garlands of flowers, advanced into the 
 arena ; armed for their pugilistic encounters, with 
 the Vajrar Moostee, or horn caestus, which they 
 wielded with singular adroitness, in striking and 
 warding off the blows of their adversaries. The 
 symmetry of their forms was unequalled ; the feats 
 of strength and agility they displayed were won- 
 derful, and the beauty of their attitudes excited uni- 
 versal admiration. 
 
 Not far from these were the Loolis, or tumblers 
 and rope-dancers, whose bodies were lithe and 
 supple as those of serpents; and who, in addition 
 to other singular feats, sprang over the backs of 
 camels, and even of elephants, with graceful agility. 
 Their exploits never failed to call forth the plaudits 
 of the multitude ; and an occasional shower of rupees, 
 from the generous giver of the feast, amply repaid 
 them for their labours. 
 
 In the diversity of mountebanks who thronged to 
 the festival there were not wanting some of a reli- 
 gious cast ; for religion is too often used as a means 
 of attracting popular favour or pecuniary recompense. 
 Several Yogies, accordingly, appeared on the scene ; 
 displaying various modes of penance, or insensibility 
 to physical torture : their melancholy exhibitions had 
 some admirers, of course, amongst the over-pious
 
 THE JUGGLEE. 175 
 
 part of the community, who regarded them as a 
 certain means of enforcing a passage to heaven ; but 
 the more joyous and light-hearted souls gladly gave 
 them up for more frolicsome scenes. 
 
 These were to be had in variety and abundance, 
 comprising the exhibitions of wrestlers, boxers, tum- 
 blers, jugglers swallowing swords and piping to 
 dancing snakes ; dancing men and women, and 
 masquerading processions, in which gods and 
 goddesses. Rajahs and Ranees, were represented 
 in all the glories of paint and tinsel. Some of 
 the company engaged in the game of pauclLees, for 
 the rage of gambling is strong among the Hindoos. 
 Others formed a circle round a Kissago * in the 
 shade, and listened eagerly to his characteristic 
 recital of some popular tale, or graphic legend of 
 mythology — the " Avataras of Vishnu," or the 
 "Churning of the Ocean." Not far from the 
 story-teller sat a minstrel : who, crowned with lotus 
 flowers, awoke the melodious powers of his veena, 
 and sang in measured numbers from the " Gita 
 Govinda f," the loves of Heri or Crishna, when 
 the incarnate God dwelt on the winding banks of 
 Yamuna J, and sported with the Gopiah in the 
 flowery glades of Vindravana. 
 
 * A professional teller of stories and romances, 
 t The songs of Jyadcva, a celebrated Hindoo poet. 
 X The river Jumna.
 
 176 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " The moon spread a net of beams," sang the 
 minstrel, " over the groves of Yindravan, and looked 
 like a drop of liquid sandal on the face of the skj, 
 "which smiled like a beautiful damsel. 
 
 " With a garland of wild flowers descending to the 
 yellow mantle that girds his azure limbs, distin- 
 guished by smiling cheeks, and by ear-rings that 
 sparkle as* he plays, Heri exults in the assemblage of 
 amorous damsels. One of them presses him with 
 her swelling breast, while she warbles with exquisite 
 melody. Another, affected by a glance from his eye, 
 stands meditating on the lotus of his face. A third, 
 on pretence of whispering a secret in his ear, ap- 
 proaches his temples and kisses them with ardour. 
 One seizes his mantle, and draws him towards her, 
 pointing to the bower on the banks of Yamuna, 
 where elegant vanjulas interweave their branches. 
 He applauds another who dances in the sporting 
 circle, whilst her bracelets ring as she beats time 
 with her palms. Now he caresses one and kisses 
 another, smiling on a third with complacency ; and 
 now he chases her whose beauty has most allured 
 him. Thus the wanton Heri frolics in the season 
 of sweets among the maids of Yraja, who rush to 
 his embraces, as if he were Pleasure itself assuming a 
 human form ; and one of them, under a pretext of 
 hymning his divine perfections, whispers in his ear, 
 ' Thy lips, my beloved, are nectar.' " , ■„
 
 THE JUGGLEK. 177 
 
 But the exhibition which attracted the greatest 
 number of spectators, was the booth of the Bhyroo^ 
 peas, or comic actors, w4io in India are exceedingly- 
 clever and adroit ; the subjects of their plays being 
 generally drawn from the fables of their mythology, 
 and their satire pointed at the measures of their 
 earthly rulers and governors, frequently with a bold- 
 ness truly wonderful in so despotic a land. 
 
 Around this booth was collected all the beauty and 
 fashion of the festival; and even the Maha Rajah 
 with his family and visitors did not disdain to form 
 part of the delighted throng, the Eanee and her 
 darling boy occupying the splendid howdah of the 
 Mysorean elephant. The exhibition commenced with 
 the exploits of the demi-god Hunoomaun and his 
 monkey followers, in their expedition to Lankadwipa*, 
 to rescue the captive Sita from the power of her giant 
 ravisher, which called forth repeated applause. The 
 appearance of Ganesa, the god of prudence, with his 
 elephant head and portly belly, excited much amuse- 
 ment among the spectators; while their laughter 
 was also freely called forth by the frisking of a huge 
 fish, representing one of the Avatars of Vishnu; 
 when under this form he conducted and preserved 
 the boat of Satyavrataf , while the earth was deluged 
 
 * Ceylon. 
 
 t Supposed to be the Noah of Holy Writ. 
 VOL. I. N
 
 178 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 in vengeance for the loss of the Yedas*, and the 
 consequent wickedness of mankind. 
 
 The attention of the royal party being completely 
 fixed by the cleverness of the dramatis personce, the 
 mythological representations were superseded by a 
 comic interlude ; the subject of which was drawn from 
 the misfortunes and mortifications of a Potoil, or 
 village mag'istrate, whose unlucky ambition had led 
 him far beyond his proper sphere, into the dangerous 
 splendours of a court life. Kepresentations of this 
 kind are always given in dumb-show, but the hits are 
 generally so palpable as to be easily understood ; and 
 on the present occasion the pantomime had able ex- 
 pounders in Trimbuckjee, Gokla, and the other dis- 
 contented Polygars, who were delighted to have in 
 this manner a safe fling at the self-created Maha 
 Rajah. 
 
 " Lo you there, now ! " said Trimbuckjee ; " our 
 jungle magistrate appears to have paid a visit to the 
 court of his sovereign Rajah, and seems wonderfully 
 elated at the circumstance." 
 
 " Jey Bhavani Devi ! See how the fellow struts," 
 cried Gokla, " as if the splendour that surrounds him 
 was already his own ! By the skull-chaplet of 
 Doorga! I long to kick the upstart back into the 
 puddle he has sprung from." 
 
 " Nay, that were a pity," said the Polygar Chunda 
 
 * The sacred books of the Hmdoos.
 
 THE JUGGLER. 179 
 
 Sahib. " It would be^, as it were, forestalling the god 
 Indra*, who, if I mistake not, has some notable 
 delusions in store for him." 
 
 "t/ey Gunjmtty ! See how the young courtiers 
 flock about the gaudy butterfly," said Trimbuckjee, 
 " and puif him up with extraordinary notions of his 
 own importance." 
 
 " They're laughing," observed Gokla, " at the pea- 
 cock's feather the fellow has stuck in his turban, as if 
 he were a full-blooded Rajapoot." 
 
 " They can do no less than flatter him," remarked 
 the Polygar of Nundydroog, " for I see he has or- 
 dered a magnificent banquet to be spread for them." 
 
 " But I don't perceive the golden cup of opium 
 handed round," remarked Chunda Sahib, with a sly 
 chuckle. 
 
 " There's too much sincerity at court," rejoined 
 Trimbuckjee, "to require the formality of the 
 Kusoomha.'''' 
 
 " But what is this I see ? " cried Gokla : " the 
 Kajah's only daughter is introduced to his imaginary 
 Highness ! " 
 
 *^What a stately maiden!" said Chunda Sahib. 
 " She walks like a young elephant, or a phenicop- 
 teros tj and her eyes are like those of a young gazelle." 
 
 * The god of delusions. 
 
 t According to the law of Menu, a bride is to have the 
 graceful step of a flamingo (Phenicopteros), or of a young
 
 180 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " She is in truth a Fawn-eyed maid," said Gokla, 
 somewhat bluntly. 
 
 " Ay, and a fickle too," added Trimbuckjee, " for, 
 by the Mund-mala * of Doorga ! she rejects her 
 former lover to receive the upstart's addresses." 
 
 "^2 Bhavani Devi!'''' exclaimed Chunda Sahib; 
 " what a pity the poor man happens to be married ! 
 he might else succeed to the musnud." 
 
 "By the oath of Gunga-jee!" exclaimed Gokla, 
 '^that will prove no obstacle to his elevation; for 
 see with what nonchalance he repudiates his poor 
 little jungle wife to make way for his royal bride." 
 
 " And what a regal air does he assume," said the 
 Polygar of Nundydroog, " in dismissing his aged 
 father and mother, his loving brothers and sisters, 
 and that host of poor relations who are swarming 
 in from the jungle, to partake of his magnificence ! " 
 
 " Bapre ! Bapre ! " exclaimed Trimbuckjee, with 
 a sympathising air: "how cavalierly does he turn 
 them over to the furoshes f to be bastinadoed for their 
 impertinence ! " . 
 
 " Now ! now ! " cried Gokla, laughing like a child 
 at the tricks of a scaramouch, " now for the catas- 
 trophe ! His imaginary Highness deigns to accept 
 
 elephant ; and even now the princes and princesses of the old 
 Hindoo dynasties are instructed in those necessary paces. 
 
 * Necklace of human skulls. 
 
 t Tent-pitchers and sweepers, who are also generally em- 
 ployed to administer the bastinado.
 
 THE JUGGLEE. 181 
 
 the hand of the princess ; and now he mounts the 
 splendid musnud prepared for his coronation, tem- 
 pering the majesty of his looks with gracious smiles to 
 the admiring multitude." 
 
 " Ha ! ha ! ha ! " shouted all the Polygars ; " there 
 he goes head over heels ! " 
 
 And so it was : for while our royal parvenu was in 
 the act of issuing his orders with commanding voice 
 and lordly gestures, his musnud, which had been ex- 
 pressly manufactured for the occasion, gave way with 
 a sudden jerk, and capsized its ambitious occupant ; 
 holding him fast with his head down, and his heels 
 kicking up in the air, amidst the shouts of laughter 
 and bitter derision of the spectators, who had the 
 further gratification of seeing the luckless Potoil 
 carried off to prison by his rapacious creditors. 
 
 " Jey Ganesa ! the arrow has struck the mark ! " 
 pried Trimbuckjee, who was the real author of this 
 little drama ; the application of which to the vaulting 
 ambition of Kempe was so apparent to all, that sig- 
 nificant smiles and gestures passed round the circle at 
 the palpable hit. The Chief himself affected not to 
 view the matter in a similar light ; but he felt that 
 every eye was fixed upon him, and glad of an excuse 
 to leave the hateful scene, he hurried with his tittering 
 party to the booth of a juggler in another part of the 
 field. 
 
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 182 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 The occupant of this little stage, the renowned 
 Ballojee Ram, was just going tlirough, with the as- 
 sistance of one or two attendants, the ordinary tricks 
 of swallowing swords, blowing his intestines out of 
 his mouth, and putting them back again ad libitum, 
 with other commonplace devices that amuse and 
 mystify the vulgar. Seeing the regal party advance, 
 however, he felt it incumbent on him to produce 
 some of his most elaborate deceptions for their 
 entertainment, and made his preparations accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 To those who have never witnessed the extra- 
 ordinary feats of this singufar class of beings, what 
 w^e are going to relate will doubtless appear too mar- 
 vellous even for the pages of romance ; but experience 
 has sufficiently demonstrated the practicability of 
 legerdemain tricks, which by the uninitiated can 
 only be referred to the operation of magic. Indeed, 
 so preternatural have some of these performances 
 appeared, that even the mighty Baber, the conqueror 
 of Hindoostan, has dedicated a portion of his in- 
 teresting memoirs to a description of them, without, 
 however, attempting their elucidation. 
 
 The juggler who now had the honour of enter- 
 taining the Maha Eajah and his party, -was evidently 
 a complete master of his art, and proceeded at once, 
 as soon as his distinguished auditors were seated, to 
 astonish them with his dexterity.
 
 THE JUGGLER. 183 
 
 He first handed an eo-o- round the circle, to 
 prove its reality, and then placed it in his bosom 
 to hatch. He requested the Ranee to signify the 
 bird she wished to see produced ; and the unhappy 
 Meena having named a dove, the symbol of her 
 own innocent heart, it accordingly flew forth from 
 the broken shell, and fluttering around for an instant, 
 soared into the sky with rapid pinion. This trick 
 was frequently repeated; a different bird appearing 
 at every successive trial, by desire of one or other of 
 the spectators ; and a shower of rupees, by order of 
 the Ranee, repaid the ingenuity of the juggler, who, 
 thus encouraged, prepared for fresh efforts. 
 
 Having desired one of his attendants to bring him 
 a branch from a noble mango-tree Avhich grew at a 
 short distance, Ballojee took it in his hand and held 
 it forth, all green and blossomless as it was ; uttering 
 certain incantations, and making a variety of grimaces, 
 indicative of the internal workings of a powerfully 
 agitated spirit. Gradually, to the astonished eyes of 
 the spectators, one blossom appeared sprouting forth ; 
 then another, and another, till the amputated branch 
 was nearly covered. 
 
 Wonderful, however, as this feat appeared, it was 
 totally eclipsed by that which followed ; for, as the 
 juggler still held the branch extended in his hand, 
 and continued his incantations, the blossoms fell 
 
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 184 SAVIXDEOOG. 
 
 off, one by one, and in the place of each ap- 
 peared an incipient mango, which gradually swelled 
 out to the largest size of that delicious fruit. These 
 having been gathered by the juggler's attendants, 
 were presented in a golden salver to the Kanee and 
 her party ; but none could be prevailed on to taste 
 a fruit which they verily believed to be the produc- 
 tion of magit) alone. 
 
 Tremendous applause and a royal largess followed 
 this extraordinary feat, and Ballojee once more ad- 
 dressed himself to his sino-ular exhibition. Takino; 
 in his hand a coil of rope which lay on the stage, he 
 flung it up with considerable force in the air ; when, 
 strange to say, one end remained fixed above, the 
 other falling down upon the stage of the mountebank. 
 
 Seizing hold of this, he kept it firmly extended in 
 a sloping direction from the summit ; when, wonder 
 upon wonders, a tiger appeared at the top, in the 
 act of descending the rope, which he actually did 
 with great caution and precision, while many of the 
 spectators fled screaming from the claws of the 
 monster. Their panic, however, was very much 
 increased when they beheld a lion following the tiger 
 down the rope ; and then a buifalo, an elephant, and 
 sundry other animals, which were fortunately taken 
 possession of by the attendants of the juggler and 
 conveyed behind the scenes, without causing any
 
 THE JUGGLEE. 185 
 
 other mischief than the needless fright their first 
 appearance had occasioned. 
 
 These extraordinary performances prepared the 
 spectators to witness other wonders ; for only one 
 opinion seemed now to prevail throughout the assem- 
 bly^ that the powers of the exhibitor were more than 
 human, and that he could be nothing more or less 
 than an incarnation of one of the deities; perhaps 
 the awful Mahadeo himself come down upon earth 
 to grace the birth-day festival of the Maha Rajah. 
 It therefore excited but little astonishment when the 
 juggler now declared his ability to decipher the most 
 hidden and secret thoughts of any or of all the 
 spectators present. 
 
 This was a disclosure, however, which few were 
 desirous of subjecting themselves to, for all had 
 thoughts more or less unsuited to the public ear. 
 The Poly gars declined the ordeal, as the jealousy 
 and hatred they now, one and all, ,felt for the new 
 Maha Kajah rendered secrecy, on this point at least, 
 of the most vital importance. The Ranee also de- 
 clined the trial ; for the unhappy state of her mind, 
 arising from the increasing indifference and estrange- 
 ment of her lord, had that day been terribly en- 
 hanced by the strange connexion inferred by the 
 junnum-j)ootee between the fate of Kempc Goud 
 and the Fawn-eyed princess of Mysore ; whom, with
 
 186 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 the lightning rapidity of female jealousy, she already 
 began to regard as a dangerous rival. Her thoughts 
 were, therefore, at the moment, any thing but fit for 
 publicity ; and, in short, such was the awe inspired 
 by the superhuman power displayed by Ballojee 
 Ram, that one and all declined his proffered elucida- 
 tion, with the exception of Kempe Goud; who, 
 piqued into singularity, and proud of having, as it 
 were, the field to himself, declared his intention of 
 putting the boasted skill of the juggler to the test. 
 
 The latter, accordingly, placed in the hands of the 
 Chief a leaf of the palmyra tree, as it is prepared for 
 writing on with the stylus, or steel pen, in the East. 
 He requested Kempe to observe that it was a perfect 
 blank, and begged that when he had satisfied him- 
 self on this point, he would place it in a silver urn, 
 which Ballojee held in his hand ; with the assurance 
 that when the Maha Rajah drew it out, it would 
 display the exact impression of his most secret and 
 all-enOTOssino; thou2;hts. 
 
 With a steady hand the Chieftain took the leaf; 
 examined it minutely, saw that it was a perfect 
 blank, and placed it in the urn, with a smile of incre- 
 dulity and derision. The juggler then closed the 
 urn with many ceremonies and incantations, placed 
 it on his head, and repeated his mystic invocations, 
 accompanied with the grimaces and contortions pe-
 
 THE JUGGLEE. 187 
 
 culiar to Ills tribe; after which he held it forth, 
 declaring that the charm was wrought, and requested 
 the Chief to draw out the virgin scroll which he had 
 deposited therein. 
 
 Kempe obeyed the mandate with a smile of incre- 
 dulity, and displayed the palmyra leaf, which he had 
 placed in the urn free from any mark whatever ; but 
 now, to his own utter amazement, it bore the impres- 
 sion of certain characters which, in the confusion of 
 the moment, he felt himself utterly unable to decipher. 
 
 With a feehng of bewilderment which seemed to 
 deprive him of the use of his faculties, he placed the 
 leaf in the hands of his nearest guest, who was no 
 other than Trimbuckjee ; and the latter, without any 
 diflSculty whatever, though with a visible expression 
 of gratified spleen, read aloud as follows : — 
 
 A rose of the desert now blooms for the Chief, 
 
 But its young budding leaves will soon wither with grief: 
 
 For the heart of its lord is o'er Cauvery's tide, 
 
 To worship the sun-flower that dwells on its side. 
 
 More there was, but more was unnecessary, for a 
 heart-rending shriek attracted the attention of all 
 present. The hapless Meena Bauee had sunk down 
 in the howdah in violent convulsions at this oracular 
 confirmation of her worst suspicions, and the con- 
 fusion that followed was excessive ; till, at length.
 
 188 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 the unhappy Ranee was placed in her palkee by 
 her attendants, and conveyed to the palace in a state 
 of insensibility. 
 
 The sports of the day were for a while interrupted 
 by this accident, and the numerous witnesses of the 
 juggler's extraordinary powers dispersed in different 
 directions, multiplying as they went marvellous and 
 exaggerated versions of the singular occurrence.
 
 THE FAIR CASHMERIAN. 189 
 
 CHAP. XV. 
 
 THE FAIR CASHMERIAN. 
 
 While this little drama was passing among the 
 nobles of the land, one of minor importance was 
 carrying on at no great distance amongst a group of 
 Gongwallas, or peasantry ; who, attired in their gala 
 dresses, were proceeding towards the palace of the 
 Maha Eajah to witness the evening festivities ; for the 
 liberal orders of Kempe were to admit as many of his 
 subjects to the nautch, in addition to his principal 
 guests, as might be in good time to find standing 
 room in his o-rand saloon of state. 
 
 " Jey Kali! make haste," said one of the troop to 
 his companions ; " make haste, or we shall lose the 
 sport ; for the sun is going down, and we shall 
 scarcely find standing room to see the nautch." 
 
 "By Doorga !" said another, as they prosecuted their 
 route, "I wouldn't lose the dancing for the best 
 turban that ever came out of a weaver's loom." 
 
 " Wall! wah,^^ cried a third; "dancing is only 
 fit for bears and monkeys. The singing is the fun for 
 my money."
 
 190 SAYINDROOG. 
 
 " True for you, neighbour," said another lover of 
 melody, " that is the most rational ; especially when 
 they sing about the churning of the ocean by the 
 gods, or how the lovely Sita was carried away by the 
 ten-headed giant of Lankadwipa." 
 
 " Jey CnslinaV observed a rural critic, " that's all 
 very grand and historical ; but, for my part, I prefer 
 one of Lilkh's Cashmerian ballads to the whole lot 
 of it." 
 
 " Ai Bliavani Devi I " exclaimed one of the peasants, 
 " have you heard, neighbours, how poor Vega Sahib 
 is ffone distracted about that dancing; cockatrice ? " 
 
 ^' There's more than he gone mad about Lillah," 
 said another ; " for, if report is no liar, the poor Ranee 
 is as mad with jealousy as Vega is for love." 
 
 " Jey Ganesa ! what a curious fix they're all in," 
 said a calculating old gossip. " First and foremost, 
 the Ranee wants to have all Kempe to herself, but 
 he doesn't care a straw about she : then he wants to 
 have the princess of Mysore to himself, but she 
 doesn't care a rush about he. Then, there's Lillah 
 running after the Maha Rajah, and Yega running 
 after Lillah ; and so they go on, in a circle like, all 
 running after and flying aAvay from one another ! " 
 
 " Poor Yega ! " exclaimed a sympathising Bheel, 
 ^* I pity him more than all the rest : a braver fellow 
 doesn't exist, or a better shot with the matchlock." 
 
 ''By Doorga! there he comes, poor fellow," said
 
 THE FAIR CASHMERIAIT. 191 
 
 another, " with his arms folded, his eyes bent upon 
 the ground, and measuring his steps as if he vv^as going 
 to his own funerah" 
 
 "Let us tease him a little, neighbours," said a 
 third, " and have a laugh at his folly." 
 
 " Kuhburdar ! kuhburclar ! " * cried one who was 
 blessed with a little more discretion. " He may 
 make you laugh on the wrong side of your mouth, 
 for your mad lover is always a choleric animal." 
 
 The object of these remarks now approached in a 
 most disconsolate mood, and proved to be the once 
 gay and gallant Bheel introduced to the reader in 
 preceding chapters ; and who was much admired by 
 Kempe for the courage he displayed in action, and 
 the zeal and fidelity with which he always executed 
 the orders of his Chief. Smitten with the most 
 passionate adoration of Lillah, a Cashmerian nauclini 
 of great and well-merited fame, young Vega took 
 every opportunity of evincing his uncontrollable love, 
 even in the presence of his Chief, whom scandal 
 pointed out as his successful rival ; and it was the 
 heart-breaking consciousness of Lillah's infidelity 
 which now drove him to the verge of distraction. 
 
 " Jey Doorga Bliavani ! welcome brave Vega ! " 
 cried several of the peasants, " welcome to the 
 festival at last. Where have you been hiding your- 
 self all day?" 
 
 * Beware ! beware !
 
 192 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " Come, man, cheer up," said he who proposed to 
 raise a laugh against the forsaken lover. " Cheer 
 up, Yegajee*, and don't take it so much to heart. The 
 women are all jilts, but there's as good fish in the sea 
 as ever was caught." 
 
 " Hojee ! " cried another ; " ay, marry, I warrant 
 you, and quite as good as Lillah." 
 
 " Lillah !*did you say ? " cried Vega, starting from 
 his reverie ; " what of Lillah ? " 
 
 " I met her just now," replied the peasant with a 
 grin, "going to adorn her beautiful person for the 
 nautchi where she is to sing and dance to-night as gay 
 as a lark." 
 
 " Bapre ! ha-pre ! I know it well," said Yega with 
 a heavy sigh. 
 
 " Jey Sree Lacliema ! what a delicious creature 
 she is ! But pluck up a heart, man," said the peasant 
 with a sympathising air, " and throw yourself at the 
 Maha Eajah's feet." 
 
 " Ha ! " exclaimed Yega, " for what purpose ? " 
 
 "Why, boldly to demand the hand of Lillah," 
 replied the banterer, " as a reward for your services." 
 
 " Jey Cama Deo ! " cried Yega, in whose breast a 
 new hope appeared to spring up. " Do you really 
 
 * The worciyee, In Hindoostanee, is expressive of affectionate 
 respect ; and is generally added by persons in addressing those 
 whom they regard highly.
 
 THE FAIR CASHMERIAN. 193 
 
 think, my friend, that his Highness would listen to 
 me ? " 
 
 " Listen to you ! " reiterated the peasant with a 
 sarcastic grin : " Ay, that he would, with ears and 
 eyes too ! " 
 
 " And do you really think," demanded Vega, 
 eagerly grasping his friend's hand, — " Oh blissful 
 hope ! — Do you really think he would relieve my 
 misery ? " 
 
 " Unquestionably he would, and that most effec- 
 tually," affirmed the facetious clodpole, with a knowing 
 wink at his companions. 
 
 " By giving me, " cried Vega eagerly. 
 
 " An arrow," interrupted the jester, " smack 
 through your body, as quick as lightning : ha, ha, 
 ha ! " 
 
 " Teeree Maukachoot ! " * exclaimed the indignant 
 Vega, striking the unlucky clodhopper to the earth. 
 " Take that for your brutahty, and thank your stars 
 that I don't send a matchlock-ball through your 
 worthless carcass." 
 
 " Jey Mahadeo ! Jey Mahahali ! By Doorga, you 
 have served him right ! " cried the peasants unani- 
 mously, as Vega strode off to hide his misery in the 
 thickest part of the jungle. There throwing himself 
 at the foot of a majestic pccpul tree, which grew 
 
 * An iintrauslatealjlc term of abuse, 
 VOL. I. O
 
 194 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 mid-way between his cottage and that of his fickle 
 mistress, he gave vent to the sorrows of his heart. 
 This was a favourite haunt of Vega's in his melan- 
 choly moods, for here he had enjoyed many an inter- 
 view with his once faithful Lillah ; and taking down 
 his veena from one of the branches, where it had 
 long hung neglected, he now accompanied his voice, 
 to the praise o'f the adorable Cashmerian, in the fol- 
 lowing impassioned 
 
 GAZZUL.* 
 I. 
 
 Less sweet the breeze of Yemen's grove, 
 Less bright the morning's vivid ray, 
 
 Than Lillah's smile, when warm with love, 
 Her bosom burns at close of day. 
 
 When Chandra f pours her beams around. 
 And lotus leaves sigh to the gale. 
 
 And music calls with magic sound. 
 To festive hall, or flowery vale ! 
 
 How sweet 'tis then to see her move 
 Amid the dance's mazy measure, 
 
 With burning, blissful smiles of love. 
 
 That steep the heart in dreams of pleasure. 
 
 * A love song. f The moon.
 
 THE FAIR CASHMERIAN. 195 
 
 IV. 
 
 The melting languor of her eyes 
 Inflames the soul with fond desire ; 
 
 While from her lips of coral, sighs 
 Of pure and odorous balm respire. 
 
 Around her lovely arms she wreathes, 
 As though invisibly she press'd. 
 
 While passion's burning fire she breathes, 
 Some hero to her panting breast. 
 
 Her little feet like lightning glance, 
 Her tinkling bells in concert ring ; 
 
 As bird-like in the mystic dance 
 
 She makes each light voluptuous spring. 
 
 Like one of those bright nymphs divine, 
 To gods on high and heroes given ; 
 
 Whose countless numbers proudly shine. 
 The Apsaras of Indra's heaven.* 
 
 * The Apsaras are the dancinir ffirls of Swerga, the heaven 
 of Indra. They are thirty-five millions in number ; and re- 
 semble the Peris of the Persians, and the Hoor-ul-uyun of 
 Mahommed's paradise.
 
 196 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 But the day had gone by when the passionate 
 strains of the young Bheel were pleasing to Lillah's 
 ear. To all the fickleness of her sex, and all the art 
 of her profession, she added the most unbounded 
 ambition ; and, though Yega might once have boasted 
 of possessing her affection, her thoughts were now 
 solely occupied with the attentions of the Maha 
 Rajah himself, and the hope of even one day sharing 
 his musnud. 
 
 The adoration of Yega w^as therefore treated by 
 Lillah with the most chilling indifference; and 
 though, in his fervid love, he had compared her 
 to the Apsaras of Indra's heaven, he might, with 
 greater propriety, have likened her to one of those 
 fair exiles from Swerga, who are banished for mis- 
 conduct, and doomed to live on earth for a certain 
 time, in the character of Gopalis, or shepherdesses. 
 Little, however, did the beautiful dancer care for the 
 thoughts of her adoring Yega, or the misery she in- 
 flicted on his too-faithful heart. Excessively addicted 
 to pleasure, and prone to falsehood and cunning, the 
 character for which the Cashm.erians are notorious 
 throughout the East, her sole object now was to 
 obtain such an ascendancy over the mind of the Chief, 
 even in the presence of his wife, as might open a 
 |)ath to her own elevation and unrivalled sway. 
 
 In the midst of his ruminations on the melancholy 
 posture of affairs, a voice of silvery sweetness fell
 
 THE FAIR CASHMERIAN. 197 
 
 upon the startled ear of Yega, to whom its melody- 
 was too dear not to cause an instant revulsion of 
 feeling in his breast. Starting up from his re- 
 cumbent attitude, he beheld the sylph-like form of 
 his adored Lillah, tripping lightly hj, from her own 
 residence, in full costume for the Nautch; and as 
 she went she smiled with provoking sweetness on her 
 discarded lover, waving her hand gaily, and giving 
 him the usual salutation of the evening. 
 
 " Lillah ! " cried the love-sick youth, in a voice of 
 deep passion and delighted surprise, " I conjure you 
 stay and listen to my hopeless prayers." 
 
 " Not for an instant, Yega," replied the too-lovely 
 dancer, " it is already late, and I wouldn't for the 
 world keep the Maha Rajah waiting." 
 
 '^Bapre! Bapre ! " ejaculated the desponding 
 Bheel ; " I have seen the day that you would let aU 
 the Avorld wait but your once-happy Yega." 
 
 " Nonsense, good youth ! " responded the fickle 
 Cashmerian, " one cannot be always in love." 
 
 " Witness ye adorable gods, " cried Yega in im- 
 passioned accents ; " how bitterly do I contradict the 
 assertion, though the fickle Lillah may beUeve and 
 feel the truth of what she utters." 
 
 " To be sure I do," said the beautiful Nauchni, 
 tossing her fine head with an air of provoking in- 
 difference ; " and, if the truth Avere known, I dare say 
 you are entirely of my opinion." 
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 198 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 ^' Ai Bhavani Devi ! " cried Vega, " witness my 
 sunken eyes and wasted form. Ah Lillah! cruel 
 Lillah ! food does not enter these lips, nor sleep visit 
 these eyes for days and nights together " 
 
 '' To watch and fast," interrupted the Cashmerian 
 with a cold smile, " are the peculiar virtues of the 
 Bheel." 
 
 " Cruel Lillah ! ' it was not thus you soothed my 
 pain," said Yega, more in sorrow than in anger, 
 " when I bled under the sword of the ruffian whom 
 I slew for grossly insulting your person." 
 
 " Nay, nay," retorted Lillah, " that little accident 
 arose entirely from your own hasty temper, Yega." 
 
 '^ Inexorable woman I " resumed the Bheel, " it was 
 not thus you mocked my misery when I fell, near 
 the tiger's nullah, gored by the wild hog that would 
 have shed your own more precious blood, had I not 
 stood between you and danger." 
 
 "'Tis very generous and gallant of you, brave 
 Yega," retorted the Cashmerian with ironical levity, 
 " to remind me of all my obligations to you." 
 
 "You force me to it," bitterly exclaimed the 
 Bheel. " You force me to recall to your memory the 
 oath of eternal fidelity you swore to me beneath this 
 very tree. And fear you not, LiUah, the avenging 
 spirits that dwell in its sacred recesses? "* 
 
 * The Hindoos believe that an evil spirit dwells under every 
 leaf of the Peepul, the tree sacred to Siva.
 
 THE FAIR CASHMERIAN. 199 
 
 "I am a Vishnaiva,^^ flippantly rejoined the Cash- 
 merian, "and reject with scorn your jungle super- 
 stitions." 
 
 "Cruel and faithless woman!" persisted Vega, 
 " then let me remind you of those days of bliss when, 
 hand in hand, we roved the jungle together, culling its 
 sweetest flowers to make garlands for our innocent 
 and happy festivals ! " 
 
 " Sweet simplicity ! rural raptures ! " exclaimed 
 the Cashmerian, with mock sensibility. 
 
 " Let me remind you," continued Vega, " of those 
 blissful nights when, by the silvery radiance of the 
 moon we tuned our veenas together, and sang in 
 unison our vows of eternal constancy." 
 
 " What a pretty pair of turtle doves ! " cried the 
 mocking dancer, clasping her hands and casting her 
 eyes to heaven. 
 
 " But why do I recall these sweetly painful 
 reminiscences of our innocent love?" ejaculated the 
 Bheel, while a heavy sigh rent his bosom, and the 
 tear stood trembling in his eyes. " That love which 
 is now withering my hapless youth, has, in your 
 faithless heart, given place to criminal ambition." 
 
 " Indeed ! " cried Lillah with assumed gravity. 
 
 " Yes, false, infatuated woman ! " Vega sternly 
 continued ; "to mad, mistaken ambition. You 
 fancy the Maha Rajah will elevate you to the mus- 
 
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 200 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 nud ; but beware ! you tread on hollow ground, and 
 know not the moment it may open to engulf you." 
 
 " Pry thee, good soothsayer ! " cried the volatile 
 damsel, " keep your croaking to yourself, and leave 
 me to manage my own affairs." 
 
 " But, besides the wickedness of sacrificing your- 
 self on the altar of ambition," exclaimed Vega, 
 " have you no compunction for the sufferings you 
 occasion to the unhappy Ranee ? Deceived by her 
 husband, exiled from her native land, and an outcast 
 from her glorious tribe, she has now the additional 
 misery of seeing her warmest affections trampled on, 
 and her most sacred rights invaded, through your 
 wicked machinations." 
 
 " Ah hypocrite ! hypocrite ! " exclaimed the Cash- 
 merian with a laugh that rang through the forest, 
 '^ how little can your pretended misery really affect 
 you, w4ien you can afford so much sympathy for the 
 woes of others. Good bye, Yegajee ! I can waste no 
 more time in listening to your idle eloquence." And 
 away she tript gaily to the scene of her triumphs. 
 
 " Heartless woman ! " cried the incensed Vega, 
 '^ if my sufferings cannot move your pity, I wdll 
 follow you to the end of the w^orld and persecute 
 you to the death with my just reproaches : " and he 
 sprang rapidly after the flying dancer through the 
 mazy pathway, till both were lost amid the windings 
 of the forest.
 
 THE EOYAL NAUTCH. 201 
 
 CHAP. XVI. 
 
 THE EOYAL NAUTCH. 
 
 The sun had sunk behind the lofty summit of 
 Savindroog, whose lengthening shadow was casting a 
 deep gloom over the late scene of festivity. The 
 rapid approach of nighty however, did not interrupt 
 the revelries : for the glorious luminary of day was 
 replaced by artificial lights suspended from the trees, 
 whose diminished splendour was by no means un- 
 favourable to the nature of the exhibitions then 
 goino; forward. 
 
 The town of Maugree was brilliantly illuminated : 
 the walls, house-tops, and pagodas, blazed with 
 unusual brilliancy; and the palace of the Maha 
 Eajah, being entirely covered over with variegated 
 lamps, beamed forth in one resplendent flood of 
 light. Fireworks of the most ingenious and fanciful 
 description were exhibited in all directions ; and in- 
 numerable rockets rushed like flaming: arrows throudi 
 the sky, calling forth repeated plaudits from the 
 admiring multitude. Meanwhile, the pipe and tabor 
 resounded in the hospitable halls of the Chieftain, 
 where preparations were making for a magnificent
 
 202 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 Nautch, the Ranee having sufficiently recovered from 
 her illness to grace the festivity with her presence. 
 
 The festal chamber, in which this ancient and 
 indispensable feature of all Eastern entertainments 
 was exhibited, rivalled in brilliancy the light of day. 
 It was a square room, constituting the centre of the 
 building, and open to the sky; but on the present 
 occasion it was covered over with a rich scarlet 
 canopy, supported on pillars, beautifully decorated, 
 and hung with wreaths and garlands of delicious 
 flowers. The walls, which were illuminated with 
 dazzling lamps, were ornamented with portraits of 
 the family and ancestors of the Chief, and fresco- 
 paintings of gods and goddesses, and heroes en- 
 counterino; lions and tigers : while the floor was 
 covered with Persian carpets of the richest patterns 
 and most beautiful texture; and in the centre a 
 handsome fountain threw up a jet of rose water, 
 which cooled and perfumed the air, and fell in 
 tinklinsr murmurs into the marble basin. 
 
 o 
 
 The Maha Rajah, attired in splendid armour, 
 having entered the Diiri-sala, or carpet-hall, pre- 
 ceded by liis minstrel, singing the praises of liis 
 family, and his own unequalled exploits, was received 
 by his numerous guests and retainers with the 
 customary salutation " Health to our Chief! Pros- 
 perity to the Maha Rajah ! " and took his seat on a 
 rich musnud, placed in the centre of a dais at the
 
 THE ROYAL NAUTCH. 203 
 
 upper end of the hall. The Ranee, and the inmates 
 of the private apartments, occupied a gallery fronting 
 the musnud, at the lower end ; and Kempe's guests of 
 a certain rank were seated on either hand, dressed in 
 splendid armour, with shield and tulwar by their 
 side; for such was the custom of the age, and the 
 salutary caution inspired by not unfrequent acts of 
 sudden violence or treachery. 
 
 Behind the Rajah were ranged the chief officers of 
 the state and household; together with the poets, 
 astrologers, physicians, and other men of learning, 
 who were either Kempe's subjects or his guests on this 
 great occasion. Young pages, selected for their beauty 
 and figure, were in attendance on the principal person- 
 ages, with fans of peacock's feathers, and chowries 
 made of the white silky tail of the Bootan cow, 
 cooling the heated atmosphere ; while others, in showy 
 costumes, served the chiefs and warriors with kimals * 
 and sherbet. Ushers with golden wands were stationed 
 in different directions to preserve order, and guards 
 were placed outside to prevent improper intrusion. 
 
 An unwonted stagnation, however, seemed to 
 pervade the assembly ; for, though the guests were all 
 ready no dancers appeared, and symptoms of im- 
 patience were visible ; while whispers began to circu- 
 late as to the possible cause of the delay. 
 
 * A sort of intoxicating confect'on.
 
 204 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 Of all men living Kempe Goud was the least likely 
 to brook a slight of this nature ; and unluckily the 
 recent exhibitions had somewhat chafed his temper, 
 by holding him up to ridicule, and prematurely re- 
 vealing to his unhappy wife the grand secret of his 
 bosom. How that secret came to be divulged, even at 
 its very birth, he could no otherwise account for than 
 by supernatural intervention ; and this more than ever 
 confirmed him in a blind reliance on his predestined 
 connexion with the princess of Mysore. To ascertain 
 the real source of the juggler's information, he had 
 ordered that sapient person to be brought privately 
 before him ; but the mysterious expounder of destiny 
 had disappeared with all his paraphernalia, and left 
 not a trace of his flight. Thus doubly piqued, the 
 patience of Kempe was not proof against another dis- 
 ajopointment ; he accordingly called for the master 
 of the revels in a voice of thunder, and demanded 
 the cause of the delay. 
 
 " Al Bhavani Devi ! " replied the trembling func- 
 tionary, whose jesting propensity was somewhat 
 scared by the moody brow of his master, " I beg to 
 represent to the Huzoor, that the principal dancer is 
 no where to be found, thou2:h we have sousfht her 
 in every possible direction.'* 
 
 ^^ Jey Mahadeo !''"' cried Kempe, " Chehhuhur ust? 
 what is become of her ? " 
 
 " The lowest of your slaves, Huzrut, cannot say,"
 
 THE ROYAL NAUTCH. 205 
 
 replied the jester, whose habitual propensity could 
 not be altogether repressed even by the cloudy aspect 
 of affairs. " I can only imagine, in your Highness's 
 service, that she may, perhaps, be gone to take a 
 ride." 
 
 " A ride ! " cried Kempe, with something like a 
 
 yell. 
 
 "Just SO, HuzrutV replied the unlucky jester: 
 ^* she may be taking equestrian exercise with your 
 new Master of the horse, for I perceive that he also 
 is absent on this auspicious occasion." 
 
 "Dog! BanclwotV^ cried Kempe, who saw with 
 a- rapid glance that Yega was not in his proper place, 
 as an officer of the household, " Do you presume to 
 make a corner-stone of our beard in this assembly ? 
 Seize him, furoshes ! give him Bamhoo-huckshees * for 
 his waggery, until his feet shall pay for the folly of 
 his head!" 
 
 '^ Ai Bhavani Devi! Ai Maliaraj ! Bapre ! Bapre! 
 By the life of your son ! By your mother's soul I " 
 cried the unhappy jester, with amusing volubility, 
 grovelling at the feet of his master and imploring 
 forgiveness, but in vain. The ministers of justice, 
 who knew the inexorable nature of their Chief, 
 carried him out, neck and heels, and gave him such a 
 lesson of bamboo on his bare soles as bid fair, if not 
 
 * A present of a caning, administered on the Lack, or the 
 soles of the feet, by the furoshes or tent-pitchers.
 
 206 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 to sharpen his wit, at least to improve his discretion 
 for the future. 
 
 *^ And now," cried Kempe, half choked with 
 passion, " let the festivities proceed, without the 
 false Cashmerian. She shall dearly rue this lapse of 
 duty." 
 
 As the dance was about to commence, however, 
 there was a commotion in the assembly ; and the 
 missing Lillah at length rushed in, with hair dishe- 
 velled, and other symptoms of disorder in her per- 
 son and manner. 
 
 " How now, minion ! " cried Kempe ; " what 
 means this extraordinary conduct ? " 
 
 " Doliaee ! Dohaee ! mercy and protection, Huz- 
 rut ! " cried the Cashmerian, throwing herself at the 
 Maha Eajah's feet. 
 
 " From whom and what ? " demanded Kempe, in 
 a voice of mingled pride and fury. " Who dares to 
 threaten or insult a serf of Savindroos: ? " 
 
 CD 
 
 " Maharaj ! sovereign lord and most indulgent 
 master ! " replied Lillah, weeping bitterly ; " the 
 wretched Vega, by outrageous force, barred my 
 passage to your presence ; and would fain, by 
 menaces and threats, compel me to I know not 
 what." 
 
 " Jey Doorga Bliavani! cried the infuriated 
 Kempe, " seize the audacious slave and bring him to 
 our presence. For you, gentle Lillah," he continued.
 
 THE ROYAL NAUTCH. 207 
 
 in a milder tone, " fear nothing ! Retire, and com- 
 pose yourself for the dance." 
 
 " The wishes of my lord," said Lillah, as she 
 gracefully retired, " are the transport of my soul." 
 
 All matters being thus, at length, adjusted, at a 
 given signal two young nauchnies advanced, with firm 
 and graceful step from behind a curtain, and saluted 
 the company; scattering flowers amongst them, as 
 they lavished their fascinating smiles on the Chief and 
 his principal guests. These young creatures were 
 models of symmetry, with regular features lit up with 
 intelligence and sensibility. They were dressed in 
 the most elegant and attractive manner ; the pictu- 
 resque costume of their country flowing gracefully 
 round their beautiful limbs, covering, but not con- 
 cealing; their exquisite proportions. Their luxuriant, 
 shining black hair was tastefully enwreathed with the 
 cama-poolel, or flower of love*, and sparkled with 
 precious stones and golden ornaments ; while their 
 finely-rounded arms were encircled with strings of 
 pearls ; and their ankles loaded with silver chains and 
 little bells, that tinkled harmoniously at every motion. 
 
 To the music of a pipe and meerding, or hand-drum, 
 and small cymbals, intermingled with the voices of 
 their male attendants, they commenced their dance ; 
 which was in the highest degree voluptuous, and admi- 
 
 * Jessamine.
 
 208 SAYINDEOOG. 
 
 rably calculated to display the beauty and pliability of 
 their limbs. Their looks were languishing, their eyes 
 swimming in sensibility, and their slow but measured 
 steps indicated luxurious delight, as at the close of 
 every stanza they floated forward towards the au- 
 dience; displacing and arranging the drapery of their 
 heads, and thus alternately showing and concealing 
 with the tissue-veil thfeir brilliant or languid eyes; 
 while the waving of their arms to and fro, produced 
 somethino* like Mesmeric eiFects on the deli2:hted 
 spectators. 
 
 But, fascinating as they were, they merely served 
 as foils to the nauchni who succeeded them, and whose 
 charms it is scarcely in the power of language to de- 
 scribe. This was the young Cashmerian, with eyes of 
 jet and teeth of pearl : whose form was faultless, and 
 whose graceful motions set all criticism at defiance. 
 
 The luxuriant tresses of the lovely Lillah, which 
 nearly reached the ground, were enwreathed with 
 delicious mogree flowers, and profusely adorned with 
 jewels. Her nutna, or nose ring *, a present from 
 Kempe Goud, was set with diamonds and emeralds 
 of great value. Her eye-lids were touched with 
 soorma f, which gave to the orb a languishing soft- 
 
 * Those who are accustomed to the nose ring regard it 
 as an ornament that very much enhances the beauty of the 
 •wearer. 
 
 t A preparation of antimony.
 
 THE ROYAL NAUTCH. 209 
 
 iiess and apparently additional length, that procured 
 her the sobriquet of " Badam chushm" or " Almond 
 eyes." Her swelling bosom was confined by a richly- 
 embroidered bodice ; and her round and lovely arms 
 and wrists were covered with armlets and bracelets of 
 gold and precious stones. A zone of silver bells sur- 
 rounded her waist, whence hung a graceful Sarie * 
 from the looms of Nagpoor, so artfully disposed that 
 it half displayed one beautiful leg to the ravished 
 sight, t A Benares scarf of gold and silver stuff, 
 with deep fringed borders, beautifully wrought, and 
 resembling a rich setting of gems, was thrown across 
 the breast in a light and elegant drapery ; and both 
 her ankles were loaded with silver rings, set with 
 fringes of small bells, and chains of intermingled gold 
 and pearls, as if their naked beauties were too much 
 for mortal eye to look upon. Thus, like a being of 
 the sky, the lovely Cashmerian looked as if she me- 
 ditated a flight into her native sphere. 
 
 Instead of the pipe and tabor, Liilah was accom- 
 panied in her dance by a sweet-toned veena, touched 
 with taste and skill by a venerable Bhaut, as he sang 
 
 * A sort of shawl dress with silk and golden tissue borders, 
 extremely becoming, elegant, and picturesque. 
 
 f The Hindoo female costume very much resembles that of 
 ancient Greece, as may be seen in the statues of the old 
 masters. 
 
 VOL. I. P
 
 210 SAVIXDROOG. 
 
 an episode from the Gita Govinda *, descriptive of 
 a jealous quarrel between Crishna and his beloved 
 Eadha ; which subject was to be wrought out in the 
 artful motions of the dance, or rather scenic repre- 
 sentation of intermingled song and dance, peculiar to 
 the East, combining the graceful poetry of motion 
 with the mellifluous language of the bard of Yraja. f 
 
 The dance commenced * with the first interview of 
 Crislma and Radha, in which the former is repre- 
 sented as a wanderer, and Radha, daughter of the 
 shepherd ISTanda, is sent to offer him shelter in their 
 cottage. 
 
 " The firmament is obscured by clouds," thus sang 
 the Bhaut, " the woodlands are black with jamala 
 trees : that youth who roves in the forest will be fear- 
 ful in the gloom of night. Go, my daughter, bring 
 the wanderer to my rustic mansion." 
 
 The light and joyous movements of Lillahhere in- 
 dicated the pleasure with which the paternal command 
 was obeyed by the fair Radha, whom she gracefully 
 
 "• * Divine melodies in praise of Crishna, by Jjadeva, 
 
 f Travellers in general, who describe the Naiitch, without a 
 competent knowledge of the manners and literature of the East, 
 represent it as a series of rude, unmeaning, and lascivious 
 motions. The author has here endeavoured to depict it as it 
 really is, an illustration of some poetical episode, or high- 
 wrought fable of mythology, in which gods and goddesses, 
 nymphs and demigods, are the dramatis personcB.
 
 THE KOYAL NAUTCH. 211 
 
 represented, while leading Heri* into the society of 
 the Gopiah, or pastoral nymphs of Vraja. These were 
 grouped with admirable skill, each expressing the 
 passion by which she was animated towards the 
 youthful prince, who returned their admiration with 
 characteristic impartiality and fervour. 
 
 The movements of Lillah, hitherto expressive of 
 quiet enjoyment and soft delight, now rose in cha- 
 racter, and represented the indignation and jealousy 
 of Kadha, that Crishna should divide with the 
 Gojnah the affection she deemed exclusively her own. 
 With admirable truth to nature, she represented the 
 different passions that tore her breast ; depicting al- 
 ternately fear, homage, hatred, jealousy, affection, fer- 
 vent love, and deep despair, as she fled from the 
 presence of the too fascinating god. 
 
 Heri, repentant and alarmed, now searches the 
 forest for his beloved ; representing at every step his 
 impassioned grief for her loss, and with sighs and 
 tears imploring her to return. Radha relents, and 
 sends a damsel in quest of Heri, whom she finds in a 
 solitary arbour on the banks of the Yamuna. The 
 fair mediator describes her mistress as animated by 
 the same despair as that which rends his own bosom ; 
 the movements of her dance being thus interpreted by 
 the Bhaut : — • 
 
 * A name of Crislina. 
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 212 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 '^ The face of Radha is like a water lily, veiled in 
 the dew of tears, and her eyes are as moons eclipsed. 
 She draws thy picture and worships it ; and at the 
 close of every sentence exclaims, ' Madhava* at 
 thy feet am I fallen I ' Then she figures thee standing 
 before her : she sighs, she smiles, she mourns, she 
 weeps. Her abode the forest — herself through thy 
 absence is become a timid* roe; and love is the tiger 
 who springs upon her, like Yama, the genius of death. 
 So emaciated is her beautiful body, that even the 
 light garland which waves o'er her bosom is a load. 
 The palm of her hand supports her aching temple, 
 motionless as the crescent rising at eve. Thus, O 
 divine healer, by the nectar of thy love must Eadha 
 be restored to health ; and if thou refusest, thy heart 
 must be harder than the thunder stone." 
 
 Midnight arrives, but neither Heri nor the damsel 
 returns, when Radha gives herself up to the frenzy 
 of despair ; her thoughts, as expressed in the motions 
 of her dance, being thus made vocal by the accompa- 
 nying Bhaut : — 
 
 " The perfidy of my friend rends my heart. 
 Bring disease and death, gale of Malaya ! Receive 
 me in thine azure wave, sister of Yamaf^ that the 
 ardour of my heart may be allayed." 
 
 The repentant Heri at length returns, and pleads 
 
 * A name of Crishna. 
 
 t The Yamuna, or Jumna Kiver.
 
 THE EOYAL NAUTCH. 213 
 
 Ms pardon in graceful pantomime, thus interpreted by 
 the running accompaniment of the Bhaut : — 
 
 " Oh ! grant me a draught of honey from the lotus 
 of thy mouth : or, if thou art inexorable, grant me 
 death from the arrows of thine eyes ! make thy arms 
 my chains! thou art my ornament! thou art the 
 pearl in the ocean of my mortal birth ! thine eyes, 
 which nature formed like blue water lilies, are become 
 through thy resentment like petals of the crimson 
 lotus ! thy silence affects me : Oh ! speak with the 
 voice of music, and let thy sweet accents allay my 
 ardour ! " 
 
 The final reconciliation of the lovers at length 
 takes place in a pas de deux, thus described in the 
 song of the accompanying Bhaut : — 
 
 " Kadha with timid joy darting her eyes on Govinda 
 while she musically sounds the rings of her ancles 
 and the bells of her zone, enters the mystic bower of 
 her beloved. His heart is agitated by her sight, as 
 the waves of the deep are affected by the lunar orb. 
 From his graceful waist flows a pale yellow robe, 
 which resembles the golden dust of the water-lily 
 scattered over its blue petals. His locks interwoven 
 with blossoms, are like a cloud variegated by the 
 moonbeam. Tears of transport gush in a stream 
 from the full eyes of Eadha, and their watery glances 
 beam on her best beloved. Even shame, which had 
 before taken its abode in their dark pupil, is itself
 
 214 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 ashamed, and departs when the fawn-eyed Radha 
 gazes on the bright face of Govinda." 
 
 The admirable manner in which this little interlude 
 was represented excited the warmest sympathy in 
 every breast ; the imagination of the spectators being 
 led captive by the cunning of the scene, and reason 
 and judgment alike laid prostrate before the witchery 
 of the siren. Loud cries* of admiration resounded 
 through the hall, and many of the spectators divested 
 themselves of their jewels to bestow upon their 
 favourite dancers ; while the latter, who had so com- 
 pletely identified themselves with the fictitious 
 characters they represented that their faculties seemed 
 in a state of suspension, were led off to rest, and to 
 recruit their exhausted powers for fresh exertions. 
 
 But louder far than all the rest was Kempe in his 
 praises of the fair Cashmerian ; Avhom, in the wildness 
 of his admiration, he represented as an actual nymph 
 of Swerga, sent expressly to grace his festival by 
 Mahadeo, his tutelar deity and the founder of his 
 race. Nay, he had the besotted vanity to liken 
 himself to the god Crishna; and it was even with 
 difficulty he restrained himself from realising the 
 fiction of the poet, and pressing his beautiful Radha 
 in transport to his breast. The ravings of the 
 Sovereign were, as usual, received with transports of 
 applause by the listeners ; but every word he uttered 
 plunged a dagger into the heart of his unhappy wife.
 
 THE KOYAL NAUTCH. 215 
 
 who, from her gallery, saw and heard but too 
 plainly, enough to embitter her existence and make 
 her long for that final repose " where the wicked 
 cease from troubling and the weary are at rest." 
 
 The dance, which had now been discontinued for a 
 time, was at length succeeded by the melody of the 
 veena, whose silver cords were admirably touched by 
 Lillah, and accompanied by the seraphic tones of her 
 voice, in a song pregnant with happy recollections 
 of her distant home and forsaken country : — 
 
 There's a valley in the North, where the spring for ever smiles 
 On its city of sweet flowers, and its lake of floating isles * ; 
 AVhere softly falls the dread monsoon, in light refreshing showers, 
 And the zephyrs ever wanton through its leafy bowers. 
 Oh! the pleasures I enjoy'd by its beauty-giving streamsf, 
 Oft steal upon the memory like blissful summer dreams ; 
 For though I sing and touch the lute while roaming far and near, 
 Still my heart is in the bowers of my lov'd Cashmere. 
 
 It was sweet to rove at leisure through its flowery glades, 
 And to listen to the murmur of its bright cascades, 
 
 * The houses in the capital city of Cashmere have terrace 
 roofs, on which is laid a covering of fine earth, planted with a 
 variety of flowers. Numerous streams from all cpai'ters of the 
 valley form lakes, some of which contain floating islands. 
 
 t The beauty of the Cashmerians is supposed to be derived 
 from the peculiar quality of the waters of that happy valley. 
 P 4
 
 216 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 When the moon was on the lake, as from isle to isle we flew. 
 Across its glassy bosom in our light canoe. 
 I have travell'd with the sun from his rising to his rest. 
 And have revell'd in the spicy groves of Araby the blest : 
 But though I sing and touch the lute, while roaming far and near, 
 Still my heart is in the bowers of my lov'd Cashmere. 
 
 Loud and prolonged applause repaid the vocal 
 efforts of the Cashmerian, who felt it incumbent on 
 her, under the circumstances which had so recently 
 occurred, more than ever to exert her extraordinary- 
 talents. Conscious of the power of her charms, the 
 siren, after a short pause, again displayed her be- 
 witching art. Clapping together the palms of her 
 hands, the pipe and tabor poured forth their lively 
 sounds, and Lillah once more resumed her voluptuous 
 career; displaying in succession all those unerring 
 fascinations of which she was rendered mistress by 
 the most elaborate training and the most exquisite 
 natural grace. 
 
 As the fair Cashmerian seemed to float throusfh the 
 air, rather than tread upon the earth, she took a 
 silken scarf of varied tints ; which, in the midst of her 
 mazy evolutions, she twined into a wreath of lovely 
 flowers, so perfect in form and colour as to vie with the 
 most delicate productions of nature. With artful sighs 
 and languishing looks she pressed the garland to her 
 breast, and with an action of peculiar grace, kneeling 
 before the musnud, she laid it at the Chieftain's feet.
 
 THE EOYAL NAUTCH. 217 
 
 A murmur of rapturous applause issued from 
 the admiring spectators, many of whom as they 
 uttered the customary " Wah ! wah! Ka Khooh /"* 
 actually rent their clothes in the ecstacy of their de- 
 light : while Kempe Goud, intoxicated with the 
 witchery of the scene, ordered the fair dancer's hands 
 to be filled with gold mohurs]-, and seizing the magic 
 wreath, threw it over his neck, reckless of the heart- 
 breaking sigh that issued from the bosom of the 
 hapless Eanee. 
 
 But there was another also on whom the acknow- 
 ledged bondage of the Maha Rajah to the seductions 
 of the enchantress operated as a death blow. This 
 was the love-sick Vega, who at this critical moment 
 was introduced into the presence by the guards that 
 had been sent in search of him. Feeling iiow that 
 every hope was vain, the hapless youth moaned 
 audibly, at beholding his faithless Cashmerian almost 
 in the arms of Kempe Goud, whose frowning brow 
 was bent on him in anger. 
 
 Flushed with wine, and in a feverisli state of ex- 
 citement from the blandishments of Lillah, the new 
 Maha Rajah could ill brook that, in his presence and 
 before his assembled guests, a dependant should dare 
 dispute with him the love of a creature wdio had 
 
 * Bravo ! bravo ! beautiful ! 
 
 t The gold Mohur is in value about sixteen rupees, or two 
 pounds sterling.
 
 218 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 gained so strong a hold on his own affections. In a 
 voice of anger he therefore exclaimed : — 
 
 " Presumptuous slave ! what means your outrageous 
 conduct towards my fair Cashmerian ? " 
 
 "Maharajl Lord of my soul!" replied the un- 
 shrinking Yega, *^ from my infancy I have loved the 
 faithless Lillah, with a passion beyond all control; 
 and I am now driven to madness by her infidelity." 
 " Hojee I call you that a reason/' demanded Kempe 
 with increasing ferocity, " for your disrespect to me, 
 your Sovereign ? " 
 
 " Ashes be on my head ! " replied Vega, " when I 
 dare to offer disrespect to your Highness. You are 
 my gracious Sovereign, and I am the lowest of your 
 slaves ; but my claim on this faithless woman super- 
 sedes all other ties on earth." 
 
 " What claim dost thou pretend to, Banchoot ? " 
 demanded Kempe in a voice choked with passion. 
 
 " The claim of our plighted faith," replied Yega, in 
 a firm but pathetic tone. " The claim of our mutual 
 love, pledged before high Heaven, when the assenting 
 gods looked kindly on my fate, and hope was smiling 
 on my unhappy head." 
 
 *^ Jey Maliadeo ! what sayest thou, Lillah ? " cried 
 Kempe, turning to the fair cause of quarrel ; while a 
 gleam of suspicion mingled with the other passions 
 that struggled in his expressive countenance. 
 
 " Ai Bhavani Devi ! 'tis false, Huzrut ! " replied the
 
 THE EOYAL Is^AUTCH. 219 
 
 unblushing Cashmerian, with the coolest effrontery. 
 '* I never pledged my love to him, as your Junahy 
 above all others, ought to be convinced." 
 
 " I do believe thee, gentle Lillah," cried Kempe, 
 relapsing into his former fondness. " Therefore, pre- 
 sumptuous Yega, quit my sight, and abandon your 
 frantic suit for ever." 
 
 " Maharaj ! " replied Vega, bold in his despair, " I 
 am the least of your slaves, and the wounds of my 
 body testify the fidelity of my service. To quit your 
 Highness's presence when so ordered is my duty, but 
 over the feelings of my heart I have no control ; and 
 rather would I die a thousand deaths than abandon 
 for an instant tlie love I bear to that cruel but too- 
 fascinating woman." 
 
 " Jeij Kali ! then die in your madness," cried the 
 Chief, half choked with rage, as he seized his bow 
 and fitted a deadly arrow to the string. 
 
 A murmur of mingled sorrow and disapprobation 
 ran round the circle, and many voices cautioned Vega 
 to fly from the impending death. With admirable 
 firmness, however, the bold offender bent his knee to 
 the ground, and bared his breast, that nothing might 
 impede the arrow of his Chief. 
 
 Tor a moment anxiety and suspense were depicted 
 on every countenance ; the boldest warrior held his 
 breath, while the females with difficulty suppressed 
 their shrieks, and trembled at the coming catastrophe.
 
 220 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 Nothing, in short, could save the unfortunate Vega 
 from instant slaughter, had not the gentle Meena 
 Bauee flung herself half fainting at the feet of her in- 
 exorable lord, and passionately besought him to spare 
 the forfeit life of his unresisting slave. By a power- 
 ful effort Kempe at length recovered his self-posses- 
 sion, and kissing the polished forehead of his affec- 
 tionate but unhappy wife, he waved his hand to Vega, 
 who silently retired to a distant part of the Durisala. 
 Meanwhile the lovely cause of this little scene 
 never for an instant lost her coolness and presence of 
 mind, but seemed to reo'ard the almost trag^ical event 
 as a becoming tribute to her charms. With smiles 
 of heavenly brightness she woke again the melody of 
 her lute, in a lively and cheerful prelude ; and, calling 
 forth the most ravishing powers of her voice, she ac- 
 companied the instrument in the following 
 
 FESTIVE CAROL. 
 
 Pensive mortal ! cease complaining ; 
 
 Bid the liquid ruby flow ; 
 Pleasure's cup devoutly draining, 
 
 Soon will brighten every woe. 
 
 Should thy heart with care be laden, 
 AVaste it not in fruitless sighs ; 
 
 Seek the lovely moon-faced maiden , 
 Bliss is in her lotus eyes.
 
 THE EOYAL NAUTCH. 221 
 
 When thy hopeless bosom rages, 
 Seize the lute thy pangs to calm : 
 
 Music every pain assuages, 
 
 Songs will pour a healing balm. 
 
 Then, for shame ! yield not to sorrow, 
 
 Every joy of life is thine ; 
 Perfect bliss you soon may borrow. 
 
 From music, love, and rosy wine ! 
 
 The smiles of the Chief fully evinced his entire ac- 
 quiescence in the Epicurean doctrines of his fair en- 
 slaver ; and it is impossible to say, excited as he was, 
 to what extent he might have carried the pleasing 
 theory into practice, in spite of the presence of his 
 too mild and too submissive wife ; but Kungapa the 
 Bhaut, indignant at the voluptuous indulgence in 
 which the soul of Kempe was about to plunge, swept 
 the strings of his veena with a clashing hand and lofty 
 look, as he poured forth a battle strain, in all the 
 glowing magniloquence of oriental imagery. 
 
 Lament ye ! lament ye ! fair maids of Mysore, 
 Lament for the beings that yet are unborn ; 
 
 When your valleys re-echo the war's sullen roar, 
 
 And the Chief, in his wrath, sounds his Collary horn.
 
 222 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 When down from our wood-cover'd mountains we rusli'd, 
 And the foe, like the antelope, fled in affi'ight. 
 
 Red torrents of blood from the fugitives gush'd, 
 
 "While their cries of despair broke the silence of night. 
 
 in. 
 
 Then Kempe, the glory and pride of his race, 
 
 Seem'd to brandish, like Ramah, the weapons of heaven : 
 
 Nor check'd his proud steed in the death-doing chase, 
 Till the foe into shelter was shamefully driven. 
 
 Then Cauvery's waters were harden'd to clay 
 
 By the dust from the hoofs of his galloping steeds ; 
 
 And the wood-cover d hills fl.ew about in dismay. 
 
 And acknowledg'd him king of the earth by his deeds. 
 
 While the Huma* that never descends from the skj-, 
 Hover d over his head in the midst of the fight. 
 
 And proclaim'd by its homage that Destiny high 
 Had decreed him a crown, the reward of his might. 
 
 * A bird peculiar to the East. It is supposed to fly con- 
 stantly in the air, and never touch the ground. It is looked 
 upon as a bird of happy opaen, and that every head it over- 
 shadows will, in time, wear a crown.
 
 THE ROYAL NAUTCH. 223 
 
 VI. 
 
 All hall to our Rajah ! all hail to his queen ! 
 
 And hail to the prince to our hopes that is given ! 
 Soft music was heard, and sweet flowers were seen 
 
 To pour at his birth from the gardens of heaven. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Oh ! long may they reign over these royal towers, 
 Which owe to the labour of heaven their birth, 
 
 And bloom like a nosegay of beautiful flowers. 
 
 On the sweet swelling breast of the goddess of earth. 
 
 Lament ye ! lament ye ! fair maids of Mysore ! 
 
 Lament for the beings that yet are unborn, 
 When your valleys re-echo the war's sullen roar. 
 
 And our Chief in his wrath sounds his Collary horn. 
 
 Stung with the pride inspired bj his martial fame, 
 and revelling in the glorious recollections called up 
 by the song of the bard, the Chieftain, as if ashamed 
 of the soft effeminacy in which he had too long in- 
 dulged, sternly waved his hand, and the siren and her 
 festive crew vanished at the well-known si2:n. So 
 quick, indeed, they fled that all appeared like the 
 witchery of a fairy dream ; and in their place was 
 brought a royal guerdon for the venerable Rungapa, 
 who knew from long experience when to seize the 
 critical moment in the vacillating fxncy of his lord.
 
 224 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 CHAP. XVII. 
 
 THE DOUBLE PLOTTEKS. 
 
 The voluptuous scene described in the last chapter, 
 which served as a public demonstration of the reckless 
 career of vice in which Kempe had so long been 
 Dlunsred, was a death blow to the affectionate heart 
 of the Ranee, from which it never recovered. 
 
 It was in vain that she clung to her lovely boy, as 
 the only tie which connected her with the world ; for 
 fate seemed determined to snatch that last and only 
 solace from her arms, at the critical moment when 
 she stood most in need of its support. A lingering 
 malady attacked the child soon after the triumphal 
 return of his father from his last expedition, and 
 every resource of medicine was tried in vain to con- 
 quer the deadly disease. Day and night, with 
 throbbing head and aching heart, the unhappy Meena 
 watched the couch of her little sufferer ; and weeping 
 over his wan visage, beheld the fruitless efforts of 
 human skill each fail in its turn, till at length, when 
 all was over, she received his last faint sigh, and closed 
 his little lids for ever.
 
 THE DOUBLE PLOTTERS. 225 
 
 Inheriting from a long line of warlike ancestors 
 that martial spirit for which even the Rajpootni fair 
 are distinguished beyond all others of their sex, 
 she yet could not bring herself either to avenge or 
 return the infidelity of her lord; though she was 
 equal in any shape to that heroism of self-sacrifice of 
 which such marvellous examples have been ex- 
 hibited by her proud Caste, when the adversities of 
 life, or the scorn of the world have pressed too heavily 
 on their lofty spirit. 
 
 Accordingly, when the Kanee found that the case of 
 her Chillapulla Raya * was hopeless, and that a few 
 days must terminate his sufferings, she resolutely re- 
 jected all food; and persevered with the most de- 
 termined obstinacy in her fatal resolution till the last 
 moment of her child's existence ; when, having barely 
 strength sufficient to perform the last sad office, she 
 sank on his couch and yielded up her pure spirit by 
 his side. 
 
 The last sad ceremony of the funeral obsequies now 
 only remained to be performed ; and in this a total 
 departure from the established Bheel custom of inter- 
 ment was permitted by Kempe, at the earnest entreaty 
 of his dying wife ; who implored him to suffer her 
 remains and those of her babe to undergo the sacred 
 rite of cremation, that their bodies mi^'ht mincjle with 
 
 * Darling prince. 
 VOL. L Q
 
 226 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 the elements from wlilch they had sprung, and their 
 souls enjoy the mucti, or final absorption in the ce- 
 lestial essence. 
 
 Nor was the Chief insensible to the blow which the 
 iron hand of fate had levelled at his happiness. As 
 he gazed on the lifeless form of his beloved and only 
 child, whose manhood he had hoped to see expanding 
 like a goodly cedar in the midst of his native forest, 
 the melancholy sight roused in his troubled conscience 
 that "still small voice" which too often slumbers 
 until the hand of sorrow sweeps through the riven 
 heart and burning brain, and makes us feel through 
 every fibre of the frame our frail mortality. 
 
 When at length the scene was finally closed, and 
 the ashes of the mother and her child lay mingled in 
 the still burning pit, a faint reminiscence of the love 
 he once bore the hapless Meena awoke in his breast a 
 pang of remorse for the misery he had caused the too 
 aifcctionate Kajpootni, which added poignancy to the 
 bitter grief he felt for the loss of his darling son. 
 But soon his better feelings were lost in the all- 
 absorbing gulf of selfishness ; and the direful con- 
 clusion he at length arrived at was, not that he had 
 lost a darling son and an injured wife, but that the 
 Charun's dying curse, which now rushed tluough his 
 breast like wasting flame, was already beginning to 
 produce its deadly fruit. Fire had actually consumed 
 all those beings who had formed part of his own exis-
 
 THE DOUBLE PLOTTERS. 227 
 
 tence ; and for the first time the fearful truth flashed 
 on his brain, in all its maddening horror — he was 
 now, in reality, a doomed and childless man. 
 
 His haughty soul, however, shaking off the incubus 
 that oppressed his spirit, loved to dwell on the con- 
 tents of the mystic scroll of his destiny ; and he 
 would cry aloud in his arrogance : — 
 
 " I still defy the powers of hell till virtue shall 
 change the molten lead to water! nay, till with my 
 consent Kistna, my deadly foe, shall call the Fawn- 
 eyed Maid his bride ! My consent ! Jey Maliadeo ! 
 to prevent so fatal an alliance shall now be my sole 
 concern. Even more than this do I hope to accom- 
 plish; for, if my prophetic heart do not deceive me, 
 I myself will be the Rajah's heir." 
 
 Elated at the glorious thought of supplanting a 
 rival he both feared and detested, and grasping a 
 sceptre which would lead him to the summit of his 
 ambition, Kempc incessantly turned over in his 
 prolific mind the means of accomplishing this first 
 object of his soul. ]Many plots were thought on and 
 rejected as impracticable ; but his plans being at 
 length matured, he imparted as much of them as he 
 conceived necessary to his now devotedly-attached 
 Lillah, the love-sick Vega, and the one-eyed Bhccl, 
 who were to be the principal actors in his projected 
 enterprise. 
 
 Q 2
 
 228 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 With the last-named personage he had no occasion 
 for much intreaty or disguise, for he had a natural 
 propensity to all sorts of wickedness ; but with Yega 
 he was obliged to use a little more address, his heart 
 being made of more generous materials. To him, 
 therefore, he promised as a bribe for his services, that 
 on the success of the plot the lovely dancer should be 
 made over to him in fee simple :. a promise which se- 
 cured the most zealous co-operation of the amorous 
 Vega, who ardently and sincerely vowed to devote his 
 heart and hand to the complete accomplishment of his 
 Chieftain's wishes. 
 
 But the card which Kempe had to play with 
 Lillah was of a more difficult and delicate nature ; 
 for the slightest suspicion of his real intentions would 
 not only deprive him of her invaluable ser^dces, but 
 would call into immediate action every resource of her 
 fertile genius to thwart and baffle his ambitious views. 
 Having therefore decided on the line of conduct he 
 was to follow, he summoned the fau' Cashmerian to a 
 private audience. 
 
 Lillah entered the presence of the Chief with a 
 face of becoming solemnity after the recent catastro- 
 phe; but it was evident that she had lavished the 
 labours of the toilette on her beautiful person 
 with more than ordinary skill and assiduity, and the 
 effect was by no means lost on the amorous Maha 
 Hajah. With a countenance flushed with desire, and
 
 THE DOUBLE PLOTTEES. 229 
 
 a voice of the most insinuating tenderness, he opened 
 the conference as follows : — 
 
 " Beautiful Lillah ! fate has at length put it in my 
 power to evince in a satisfactory manner the ardent 
 love and affection with which you have inspired my 
 breast." 
 
 '* Your Highness," said Lillah, " has too much con- 
 descension for your slave : but I could wish, Huzrut, 
 (here she heaved a pretty little hypocritical sigh) to 
 wave this subject at present ; though I confess (and 
 here she called up a beautiful blush) it is one of all- 
 absorbing interest to me ; until, at least, a little 
 more time has been devoted to the memory of her 
 late most excellent Highness." 
 
 " Jey Bhavani!''' exclaimed the Chief with vivacity, 
 " enough, my girl, has been done for the dead, who 
 are now, doubtless, enjoying the delights of Swerga." 
 
 "Praises be to Yishnu!" said the Cashmerian, 
 brightening up a little : " that is a reflection which 
 greatly consoles me, under the heavy loss we have 
 sustained." 
 
 "To add to your consolation," said Kempe, "I 
 have a proposal to make to you, fair Lillah, on the 
 part of a dear and valued friend." 
 
 " Of what nature, I pray you, Maliaraj ? " demanded 
 the Cashmerian, somewhat startled. 
 
 " It is," said Kempe, " that you would share his 
 power, his riches and his musnud." 
 
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 230 SAVINDllOOG. 
 
 '^ Jey Doorga Bhavani V re2:)liecl tlic Cashmerlan 
 firmly ; '^ never will I accept of any proposal calcu- 
 lated to remove me from this land of my adoption 
 and my love." 
 
 " I spoke not of your departure hence, Badam 
 cliuslim ! " * said Kempe, with a loving smile. 
 
 " Then I do not comprehend your junab^^ said the 
 Cashmerian : " but I am equally averse to any pro- 
 jDOsal calculated to remove me from " 
 
 Here the lovely dancer hesitated, and hid her 
 blushinoj face with her hands. 
 
 ^' From whom ? " demanded Kempe, eagerly ; 
 '• from Yega ? " 
 
 ^^ Perish the presumptuous mortal I " cried Lillah 
 with vivacity. *^ I dreamt not of him." 
 
 '^ Of whom then, adorable Lillah I were you 
 thinking ? " demanded Kempe, bending his knee 
 before the fascinatin": dancer. 
 
 " Of one," cried Lillah, throwing her arms round 
 his neck, " that I love beyond all human beings." 
 
 " Then," said Kempe, with corresponding rapture, 
 " I am supremely blest ; and Lillah is henceforth 
 mistress of my throne , as she has long been of my 
 heart." 
 
 The triumph of the Cashmerian at this happy 
 consummation of her long-cherished hopes was 
 evinced with becoming warmth and gratitude; and 
 
 * Almond eyes.
 
 THE DOUBLE PLOTTERS. 231 
 
 Kempe saw that the moment was favourable for the 
 further execution of his plan. 
 
 "But!" exclaimed the Maha Rajah, rising from 
 his recumbent attitude, with an air of sudden 
 melancholy and abstraction. 
 
 This terrible monosyllable threw a chill on the 
 spirits of the Cashmerian ; and she demanded, in 
 evident alarm, if any thing was the matter with his 
 Highness. 
 
 "Yes, adorable Lillah," replied Kempe, "an 
 envious cloud still hangs over the sun of my destiny^ 
 which you alone can assist me in dissipating." 
 
 The Cashmerian declared her readiness to do any 
 thing in her power to contribute to the happiness of 
 her future lord ; and begged him to tax her ingenuity 
 and gratitude to the utmost. 
 
 " You were present in the temple," said Kempe, 
 " when the contents of my horoscope were declared 
 to the public." 
 
 " I was, Huzrut^"^ replied the Cashmerian, " and I 
 hailed with rapture the favourable augury." 
 
 "^i Ganesa! But do you not see," demanded 
 Kempe, "that my fate hangs upon one or two 
 alternatives, which may yet baffle our most reason- 
 able hopes and wishes ? " 
 
 " Surely," said Lillah, " your Highness cannot 
 allude to the trick of chan2;ino; molten lead into 
 water, which any juggler can accomplish." 
 Q 4
 
 232 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 "No," replied Kempc, "I refer to a point of 
 much greater importance, which is the union of 
 Kistna and the princess of Mysore." 
 
 "True," said Lillah, "provided, MaharaJ, that 
 union be accomphshed by your desire." 
 
 "With or without," exclaimed Kempe, in a dis- 
 consolate voice, " that union seals ray fate, and must 
 be prevented." 
 
 " Then, by all means, prevent it," said the unhesi- 
 tating Cashmerian. " The dagger or the poison cup 
 will effectually dispel your apprehensions." 
 
 " JS^o, no," cried Kempe, hastily, for even hi& 
 hardy soul recoiled at the cool atrocity of the pro- 
 posal ; " we will not for the present have recourse 
 to extreme measures ; but to secure our own 
 happiness, my Lillah, and stop this threatened 
 •calamity, we must get possession of the person of the 
 princess ; not only effectually to prevent her union 
 with Kistna, but also to force from the Rajah a 
 restitution of all those lands which h6 has lopped off 
 from my paternal inheritance." 
 
 " To carry off the princess from the midst of her 
 father's court and capital," said the Cashmerian 
 musing, " is, I confess, an exploit more easily con- 
 ceived than executed." 
 
 " But the gaieties and confusion of the Hoolee *, 
 
 * The Festival of Spring.
 
 THE DOUBLE PLOTTERS. 233 
 
 which is now approaching," saidKempe, ''may afford 
 us favourable oportunities." 
 
 "Besides, Jey Maliakali T^ cried Lillah with 
 enthusiasm, " to clear heads and firm hearts all things 
 are possible." 
 
 " There spoke the voice of an angel ! " exclaimed 
 Kempe, in a tone of rapture, warmly embracing his 
 beautiful counsellor. " I will now communicate to 
 you, my dear Lillah, a project which has occurred to 
 me; and which, with due consideration, wx may 
 bring to maturity together." 
 
 The Cashmerian again declared her readiness to 
 undertake anything, however difficult or dangerous, 
 to gratify the wishes of the Maha Rajah; and he, in 
 turn, bound liimself by the most tremendous oaths, 
 to make her queen of the jungle the moment success 
 should crown their united efforts. The worthy as- 
 sociates who were, at once, mutual dupes and deceiv- 
 ers, then entered into a consultation on the most 
 effectual means of accomplishing their intended 
 object ; and it was not long before they laid between 
 them the groundwork of a plot which offered every 
 prospect of a favourable result to the ambitious and 
 enterprising Kempe. 
 
 Nothing now remained but to prepare his emissa- 
 ries for the different parts they had to play, and this 
 was thoroughly effected after a few days' drilling : for 
 the Bhcels, like well trained actors, readily fall into
 
 234 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 such characters as may be allotted to them in the 
 course of their melodramatic lives, and never lose 
 for a moment the self-possession and address necessary 
 for their complete support. A selection of dramatis 
 personcB was made by Kempe from his most active 
 and intelligent followers of both sexes, for the great 
 undertaking, which they entered into with spirit and 
 alacrity : for, independent of their blind obedience 
 to the Maha Rajah, they anticipated the delight of 
 sharing both the pleasures and the plunder of the 
 festival, which they looked upon as the ultimate 
 object of the expedition. 
 
 All matters being at length arranged, the Maha 
 Rajah and his devoted followers set oif for the 
 neighbourhood of Srirungaputtun, where the great 
 festival of spring was shortly to take place, with more 
 than ordinary splendor and magnificence. They 
 went by different routes, and under various disguises, 
 to avoid observation, and appointed as a general 
 rendezvous a ruinous choultry in the wildest part of 
 the jungle, which was generally said to be haunted by 
 the ghosts of murdered travellers, decoyed thither 
 and strangled by Thugs ; and which had long been 
 avoided by even the weariest and hardiest wayfarer, 
 in consequence of its gloomy aspect and blood-stained 
 reputation.
 
 THE EOYAL SUITOES. 23^ 
 
 CHAP. XYIII. 
 
 THE ROYAL SUITORS. 
 
 At the period of our tale Srlrungaputtun * was in 
 the zenith of its power and glory. Situated on an 
 island in the river Cauvery, it was rich, extensive 
 and populous ; surrounded with lofty walls and ram- 
 parts, flanked with massy towers, whose frowning 
 battlements were reflected in the bright and rapid river 
 that washed their base. Numerous lofty temples 
 pointed their golden summits to the sky, and extensive 
 bazaars displayed all the rich products of the East ; 
 while the busy hum of the merchants, the tink- 
 ling of ceenas, and the inspiring strains of martial in- 
 struments min2;lino; in one common sound, aflbrded 
 striking indications of that commercial prosperity, 
 proneness to pleasure, and love of military pomp and 
 glory, for which the Mysoreans of that day were 
 famed throughout Asia. 
 
 The eastern end of the island on which the capital 
 is situated was entirely occupied by the Laul Baugh, 
 or Garden of Roses ; amid whose tuneful groves the 
 
 * Sri-Runga-Puttun. The city of tlie Holy Runga, one of 
 the thousand names of Vishnu.
 
 236 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 humming of the richly-laden bee mingled with the 
 dehghtful notes of the cocil, and the warbling of 
 numerous other birds of song, carolling gaily 
 amongst the leafy branches of the mango, and other 
 umbrageous trees, with which the garden abounded. 
 Outside the city walls, which occupied the western 
 angle of the island, stood the delightful groves of the 
 Maha Noumi Muntup, or "PaYilion of the victo- 
 rious Tenth."* Arrayed in nature's richest garb, 
 these delicious shades stretched in many a wildering 
 maze along the verdant banks of the river, imper- 
 vious to the noon -day sun; which rendered this 
 lovely garden the favourite retreat of the citizens, to 
 whose use and pleasure it was appropriated by the 
 reigning Rajah. 
 
 The peaceful order that prevailed throughout this 
 delightful place was particularly well adapted for the 
 indulgence of the contemplative philosopher, or the 
 solace of the frail invalid ; and this seemed to be es- 
 pecially felt by an individual of the latter class who, 
 shortly after the occurrences related in the foregoing 
 chapters, was reclining on a cliarioaee, or couch, in 
 the shade of a wide-spreading mango, close by a 
 suite of tents apparently belonging to him. He 
 
 * The last day of tlie Dussera festival, on which the Rajah 
 annually performed the ceremony of preparing his arms, and 
 pitching his tent and standard. This place was afterwards called 
 by Tippoo, the " Deria Dowlut Baugh^' or Garden of the Wealth 
 of the Sea.
 
 THE ROYAL SUITORS. 237 
 
 was a military youth of foreign air and manner; 
 whose dress was of the most elaborate elegance, but 
 who appeared to be still suffering from the effects of 
 some recent action ; his sword-arm being in a sling, 
 and his forehead displaying a black patch, somewhat 
 ostentatiously brought into relief by the graceful 
 folds of his dazzling^ white turban. 
 
 The reverie of the invalid, which seemed rather of 
 a gloomy character, was at length disturbed by the 
 noise of approaching hamals ; and a handsome palkee 
 soon made its appearance, from which stepped an 
 individual well stricken in years, of slender frame 
 and timid aspect, and whose attire indicated him to 
 be a high caste Brahmin. On his approach the 
 young officer rose from his couch, and hastened to 
 meet his visiter, exclaiming with apparent satis- 
 faction: — 
 
 "Salaam Aleicoom! Khoosli omedeed! You are 
 welcome, Oodiaver Sahib ; you have done us honour, 
 Inshallah ! your place has been empty." 
 
 " Jey Ganesa ! " replied the sage Oodiaver. 
 " Khan Sahib, I am glad to see you. By your ex- 
 cellent favour, I hope your health is better." 
 
 " Alhumd-ul-illah ! '^ replied the Persian, "your 
 favour is great, Pundit Sahib ; in bodily health I am 
 not amiss, but my spirits are depressed somewhat 
 with diltunjeeJ'^ * 
 
 * Blue devils.
 
 238 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 ** Thanks to the Great Preserver, whose name we 
 arc forbidden to pronounce," rejoined the Pundit, 
 *' that you have escaped so well, Morad Sahib, from 
 the sword of that incarnation of Yama, whose 
 prowess you held so lightly on that fatal day, when 
 ashes fell so thick upon our heads in the jungle." 
 
 " MashaUah!^^ cried the Persian with vivacity, 
 "little should I deem of the robber's prowess ; though 
 a smart swordsman, I confess, for a jungle-bred 
 knave as he is, were it not for that cursed scratch 
 that sent the blood trickling into my eye at the 
 moment I was about to send his soul to Eblees. 
 But destiny is every-thing — what is written must be ; 
 and though I dearly long to cross a horse once more 
 and ride a meidaun, I must now sit on the carpet of 
 hope, and smoke the culeeaun of patience." 
 
 "^/ Gunputty !^' sighed the Brahmin, "all would 
 have been well were it not for the scurvy trick that 
 was played us by those drunken Kafirs of match- 
 lockmen." 
 
 " May the fiithers of the Afghauns burn eternally ! " 
 exclaimed the Persian. " Let them shave their 
 beards and throw dust on their heads, for nimmuck 
 haramee.* But what can you expect from vile 
 Soonies\ as they are? May their sisters be de- 
 filed!" 
 
 * Fellows not worth their salt. 
 
 t The Afghauns are Soonies, and the Persians SheaJis : be-
 
 THE ROYAL SUITORS. 239 
 
 " For my part/' said the Brahmin, " I shall never 
 forgive that knave Hafiz, for forcing me to eat and 
 drink with the villain Kempe, as if I were a brother 
 Pariah of his. But praised be the name of Vishnu ! 
 I have happily purged my soul of the foul stain by 
 direful penance." 
 
 " 'Tis a comfortable doctrine truly/' said the 
 Persian with a smile, " that enables you Brahmins 
 to atone by some flimsy penance for wdiat, in other 
 less privileged Castes, you hold to be a deadly sin. 
 But you fancy yourselves privileged to take the 
 beards of all human kind in your hands, and make 
 them Avalk round and round your little fingers." 
 
 " By your excellent leave, Khan Sahib," said the 
 Pundit, in a deprecating voice, "let us not renew 
 this idle recrimination, but talk of what more nearly 
 concerns your temporal interests ; which is, indeed, 
 the object of my present visit to your tents." 
 
 "Bismillah! you say well," replied the Persian, 
 " and discord shall not part our beards for such a 
 trifle as religion. But tell me, Pundit Sahib, by 
 your condescension and favour, will our noble 
 Pajah permit the robbers of the jungle to make a 
 corner-stone of his beard, without burning their 
 fathers, and defiling their female relations ? " 
 
 " Jc?/ Cartiheia ! No ! " cried the Brahmin with 
 
 tween wliicli sects of the Mahommedan faith there exists the 
 most bitter and unextin«fuibhable hatred.
 
 240 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 energy ; " the jungles of the Bheel shall be reduced to 
 cinders, their mountains ground to powder, and the 
 ashes of their dead scattered to the four winds of 
 heaven !" 
 
 " La illahe-il'Ullah ! " ejaculated the Persian with 
 affected awe. " In what year of the blessed Hegira 
 is this fearful visitation to take place ? " 
 
 " Immediately after the Hfiolee^'' replied the 
 Brahmin : " for the Rajah does not wish to stain with 
 broils and battles the joyful celebration of the Prin- 
 cess Lachema's approaching nuptials." 
 
 " Kliodah BuzoorgV cried the Persian, with a 
 groan half real, half affected. " Is her Royal 
 Highness then really going to be married ? " 
 
 " By the extremity of your favour," replied the 
 Brahmin with a smile, " the period has at length 
 actually arrived which is to seal the future destiny of 
 the princess, whose ripened years now call for other 
 joys and cares than those of childhood." 
 
 '^ Muharik hashud! * Inshallah ! " cried the Persian. 
 " How happy her Highness must be at the fortunate 
 event ! " 
 
 "Let me represent in your service, Moradjee 
 Khan," replied the Pundit, " that blest with doting 
 parents and affectionate friends, the princess seems so 
 totally indifferent to all the rest of the world, that she 
 would gladly live and die in the sweet community, 
 
 * May it be auspicious !
 
 THE ROYAL SUITORS. 241 
 
 without a sinorle wish for chans^e, or lons^ino; for va- 
 riety ; but coming years warn the Rajah to seek for a 
 successor w^orthy to share the musnud with his 
 peerless daughter, when age or infirmity shall render 
 it expedient for him to relinquish the cares of sove- 
 reignty." 
 
 '•' Ai Khoda ! Ai walii ! "* cried the Persian with a 
 languishing air and a heavy sigh. " If Morad is not to 
 be the happy man, who, in the Prophet's name, is 
 born to share so blissful a lot ? " 
 
 " It has been sic^nified to the neio-hbourini}^ courts," 
 resumed the Brahmin, " that at the approaching 
 festival of Cama Deo, the Begum, according to the 
 custom of Royal Rajpootni maidens, will choose 
 from amongst her numerous suitors the prince with 
 whom she may feel disposed to share her destiny; 
 and the tempting summons has not failed to bring a 
 crowd of royal lovers to the court of Mysore : some 
 attracted by the fame of her unrivalled beauty, and 
 others by the splendor of her inheritance." 
 
 " She is a gem of Golconda amongst beads of 
 glass ! " said the Persian with an amorous and lan- 
 guisliing air. " She is the rosebud round which the 
 nightingale of my heart is ever fluttering ! But 
 worthy Pundit, by the extremity of your favour, do 
 you think the unlucky Morad may not yet have a 
 chance ? " 
 
 * OGod! alas! 
 VOL. I. R
 
 242 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " At Bhavani Devi ! " exclaimed the Brahmin : 
 " why will you continue to singe your wings by 
 soaring towards the sun of royalty, ^vhen by moder- 
 ating your ambition you might gain both wealth and 
 beauty in another quarter ? " 
 
 " As how, I pray you, worthy Pundit ? " demanded 
 the Persian. " By the greatness of your condescension 
 what may your idea be, sage Oodiaver ? " 
 
 " It is this," replied the Brahmin ; " and be assured. 
 Khan Sahib, that to none but yourself would I con- 
 descend to parley on so trivial a subject : for, though 
 a man of peace, and averse to the shedding of blood, 
 your conduct on that fatal occasion when the golden 
 Moorut was ravished from my hands has secured my 
 highest consideration." 
 
 ^^ Bismillah! Bis7mUa/i/^^ exclaimed the Persian; 
 '^ may your favour increase ! may your shadow never 
 diminish ! " 
 
 " I would therefore suggest," resumed the Brahmin, 
 '^that you should confine your attentions to some 
 lady of the court, whose wealth and connexions might 
 give you an enviable establishment in the country. 
 For instance, the Princess Louli " 
 
 '• Blessed be the name of the Prophet ! " exclauned 
 the Persian; "who may her fortunate Highness 
 be?" 
 
 " She is a lady of high descent," replied the 
 Brahmin ; " thouo-h it is said that one of her ancestors
 
 THE KOYAL SUITORS. 243 
 
 lost Caste by meddling with commerce. He left 
 wealth enough, however, to wash out the stain, in 
 some sort ; and his fair descendant will, it is said, in- 
 herit half a crore of rupees " 
 
 " Barikillah ! " interrupted the Persian with viva- 
 city, " then be it so. The Princess Louli shall hence- 
 forth be the pearl of my existence — the rose of my 
 heart's nightingale. But still. Pundit of my soul I I 
 cannot help feeling a most ravenous curiosity as to 
 the names and dignities of the candidates who com- 
 pete for ^Mysore's first and glorious prize." 
 
 " The suitors are all of royal degree," said the 
 Brahmin, " which effectually bars your high preten- 
 sions, however lofty your own ideas may be on the 
 subject. Amongst these willing slaves who bow 
 submissive at the shrine of our eartlily goddess, the 
 first in rank is the Kajah of Cochin, famous for its 
 commerce with Arabia Felix, and for the introduction 
 to Hindocstan of the zequins and manufactures of 
 Fer ingisthaun. " 
 
 "Would that it pleased the Prophet," said the 
 Persian proudly, " to place his rank and riches within 
 the reach of Morad's sword ; and then, Inshallah ! 
 let the winner wear the prize." 
 
 " The next in rank," resumed the Brahmin, " is 
 Jeswunt Rao, the haughty Peishwah of the JNIahrattas; 
 who holds his indolent and voluptuous prince in 
 
 R 2
 
 244 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 bondage at Satarah*, and usurps his regal powers In 
 the field and the Durbar." 
 
 " Allah Hcrfiz I " ejaculated the Persian, "at least 
 there is one candidate of spurious royalty, with whom 
 Morad might, without vanity, contend." 
 
 " After the Peishwah," continued the Brahmin, 
 " comes the youthful Eajah of Berar — as graceful as 
 the God of Love, and endowed Av.ith almost equal 
 judgment and discretion." 
 
 " Wallah Billah ! if that be all," cried the Persian, 
 " heaven help the Begum, if she has only sense 
 enough to distinguish between a man and a monkey." 
 
 " The most formidable warrior that I have yet 
 enumerated," said the Brahmin, " is the Zamorin of 
 Malabar, who longs to prove before the Princess the 
 strength and valour he displayed in winning his own 
 imperial crown." 
 
 " Afereen ! " exclaimed the Persian, " I pray you, 
 sage Oodiaver, by the extremity of your favour, to 
 enlighten my ignorance in this matter ; for I am as 
 yet but a novice in this land of Pagan delusions." 
 
 "In the wealthy kingdom of Malabar," replied the 
 Pundit, " a strange custom prevails of proclaiming a 
 
 * Tlie successors of Sevajee, the founder of the Mahratla 
 state, became so immersed in luxury and indolence, that the 
 sovereign authority was usurped by the Peishwah, or Prime 
 Minister, and the sovereign himself reduced to a tinsel captivity. 
 A common occurrence in Oriental history.
 
 THE EOYAL SUITORS. 245 
 
 grand jubilee on certain stated occasions ; when the 
 Zamorin, or sovereign Prince, sits in regal splendour 
 in his tent, encircled by ten thousand guards, armed 
 at all points. It is then declared by the heralds to 
 the surrounding multitude, that any adventurous 
 individual who longs to gain a crown by a desperate 
 action may accomplish his w^ish, simply by fighting 
 his way through the surrounding guards, and killing 
 the Zamorin on his throne." 
 
 " A simple exploit, truly," responded the Persian, 
 "and one sufficient to qualify the survivor for a lunatic 
 asylum." 
 
 " The bold suitor of our lovely Begum, of whom I 
 speak," said the Brahmin, "has, however, achieved 
 this perilous enterprise ; and his ambition now 
 prompts him to another of equal difficulty. But he 
 will have many powerful rivals to contend with; and 
 amongst others, the learned Pajah of Tanjore, who, 
 in his love for the sciences, is said to study that of 
 anatomy, which is strictly forbidden by the laws of 
 Brahma." * 
 
 * The prince who filled the musnud of Tanjore, -when the 
 author visited that country some years ago, was very much 
 addicted to science and boar-hunting; and the Honourable 
 Company Bahauder having relieved him, in common with many 
 others, from the cares of government, he had abundant leisure 
 to pursue his favourite amusements. He was particularly at- 
 tached to medicine and surgery, which he studied with nmch 
 success under an English practitioner ; and he learned anatomy 
 R 3
 
 246 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 " Mashallah I your god is rather fastidious and 
 inconsistent," observed the Persian with a sneer; 
 *^for though he objects to handling dead bodies, he 
 does not prohibit you from cutting up living ones, as 
 I know to my cost." 
 
 " It is not for purblind mortals like us," said the 
 Brahmin, "to scrutinise or cavil at the will of the 
 deity. I shall not, however, argue this point with 
 one who doubts the transmigration of souls, but close 
 my catalogue of the principal and most distinguished 
 suitors with the proud Chief of Cananore, possessor of 
 the * Hundred thousand Isles ' * ; from which his family 
 derive the haughty title of ' Sovereign of the Sea.' " 
 
 ^^ Right welcome is he to the sea, and all its 
 countless treasures," said the Persian, " if he would 
 only give me the single shell that contains the pearl 
 of my existence." 
 
 " Jey Gunputty ! " exclaimed the Brahmin, " I was 
 near forgetting one of the most important personages 
 of them all, the lord of that happy land around 
 whose verdant shores the Southern Ocean sweeps its 
 pearly treasures ; and whose spicy groves waft their 
 fragrance far o'er the bounding deep to the wandering 
 mariner." 
 
 '^ Alhumd-ul-illah ! A very poetical peroration, 
 
 by means of an ivory skeleton, manufiicturod for liim in London, 
 the tenets of his religion forbidding him to touch dead bodies. 
 * The Laccadivas.
 
 THE EOYAL SUITORS. 247 
 
 indeed," said the Persian ; " by which I presume I am 
 to understand that fairy island of Serindib *, so famous 
 in our Arabian romances." 
 
 " Just so," replied the Brahmin, with a sententious 
 nod. " ^.11 these princes, and many more of inferior 
 note, now hold high festival in Srirungaputtun's lovely 
 island ; basking in the sunshine of the Begum's smile, 
 and longing for that happy day when each hopes to 
 claim her for his own. Kor have the numerous 
 suitors who now crowd the Mysorean court come 
 empty-handed to woo this Phoenix of the land ; for 
 they know that maids, however lovely, disdain not the 
 aid of art to embellish and display those charms 
 bestowed upon them by nature." 
 
 "Personal vanity," said the Persian, stroking his 
 glossy beard, and stretching out his handsome leg, 
 '^is a contemptible failing that is happily confined to 
 the weaker sex." 
 
 " Accordingly," said the Brahmin, smiling at the 
 self-deluding naivete of his friend, " the royal suitors 
 vie with each other in costly and precious offerings 
 at the shrine of their deity. The diamonds of 
 Golconda are poured in heaps to dazzle the eyes and 
 win the affections of the Begum. Cornelians from 
 the banks of the Nerbuddah ; agates from the Guzcrat ; 
 sapphires, amethysts, and precious stones of" every 
 
 * Ceylon.
 
 248 SAVIXDEOOG. 
 
 colour, formed into wreaths of flowers for her beautiful 
 hair, and sparkling with all the brilliancy of nature : 
 — the milky pearls of Cingala — the rich onyx of 
 Balaghat — the lapis lazuli, one of nature's most 
 beautiful productions, from the mountains of Oude ; 
 together with rubies from the mines of Badakshan, 
 the turquoises of Nishapoor, and the emerald, whose 
 splendor blinds the snake to look upon: — golden 
 chains and bells for wrists and ankles — shawls from 
 the happy valley of Cashmere — ivory toys from rich 
 Cathay, of rare and curious workmanship — bags of 
 musk from the Steppes of Tartary, and flasks of 
 attar-gul from the rose gardens of Iran, are all ottered 
 in abundance at the altar of our terrestrial goddess." 
 
 " Ai lihodah Buzoorg ! " cried the Persian, elevating 
 his hands in astonishment at this gorgeous inventory ; 
 " these are indeed right royal offerings, beyond the 
 dreams even of our Arabian romancers. Wullah ! 
 Wullah /" he added with a sigh, " I fear the heart of 
 Morad must kick the beam, if put into the balance 
 with such priceless treasures." 
 
 " Though last not least in estimation," continued 
 the Brahmin, " the Bajah of Cochin, with a gallant 
 compliment on the power of beauty in aiding us to chase 
 the leaden hours, has presented the princess with one 
 of those curious time-pieces, the manufacture of 
 Feringhistaun, now for the first time introduced into 
 this country. Much wonder and admiration does this
 
 THE EOYAL SUITORS. 249 
 
 ingenious toy excite in the royal maid and her 
 female attendants; and highly is their curiosity 
 piqued to discover the secret mechanism which can 
 thus declare the hours of the day more correctly than 
 the handsome silver gong of the palace ; and which 
 far transcends the most accurate dial, inasmuch as it 
 is perfectly independent of the sun." 
 
 " Afereen I " exclaimed the Persian, " so rare a 
 piece of mechanism must excite the admiration of the 
 learned as much as the astonishment of the un- 
 enlightened." 
 
 " On the contrary," said the Brahmin, " the 
 learned who have read the Vedas and the Shastras 
 look upon all such inventions with just suspicion, as 
 the sus^o'estions of the Evil One rather than the will of 
 the deity ; and I, for one, altogether object to such 
 unholy innovations. Nay, with tears in my eyes I 
 have besought the princess not to wear so sacrilegious 
 an ornament ; for I verily believe that it contains the 
 captive soul of some deceased Brahmin, as nothing 
 else in my estimation is capable of producing such 
 extraordinary and superhuman effects." 
 
 " Barikillah ! you have hit the mark in the 
 centre ! " cried the Persian, with difficulty restraining 
 his laughter. " If the soul of a Brahmin ever wrought 
 a miracle in this Avorld, surely this nmst be the 
 stupendous event." 
 
 " Jey Ganesa ! " exclaimed the Pundit, much
 
 250 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 gratified even at this ambiguous compliment from a 
 Mahommedan infidel. "And now, Khan Sahib, I 
 have kept to the very last the most pleasing piece of 
 intelligence, which concerns yourself alone." 
 
 " My dear friend ! light of my eyes ! you expand 
 my heart with joy !" cried the Persian eagerly. 
 
 " Your deeds have been fortunate," said the 
 Brahmin, "and your fame will be great; for the 
 [Rajah has expressed his approbation of your bravery 
 in defence of the golden Moorut ; which, you must 
 understand, I descanted on with the brio-htest corns - 
 cations of eloquence." 
 
 " Well done, my happy stars ! " cried the Persian. 
 *^ The Mujdeh belongs to you, worthy Pundit, for 
 the joyful news you bring.* You are pleased to 
 ordain great favour to your slave, InshaUah ! " 
 
 " I beg to represent in your service," continued 
 the Brahmin, "that his Highness owes you a Khelaut, 
 which he means to confer on you at the next Durbar." 
 
 " Ai Barikillali ! Ai Mashallah ! your steps are 
 prosperous," exclaimed the Persian. " By the beard 
 of my father you are welcome. Your slave's head is 
 exalted. His gratitude is great." 
 
 " Finally," concluded the Brahmin, " our Kajah, 
 who is as generous as Yicramajeet f, purposes further 
 
 * Mujdeluk is a present conferred on those who bring good 
 news. 
 
 t Or, Vicramaditya, a king of Malwa, a great encourager of 
 learning and the arts.
 
 THE ROYAL SUITOES. 251 
 
 to advance you to the rank of Sirdar, with the com- 
 mand of one hundred horse and two hundred 
 infantry." 
 
 " By the tomb of Hoossein ! by the soul of the 
 Prophet ! " cried the delighted Persian, " my star is 
 in the ascendant, my fortune acquires new brilliancy. 
 I thous^ht the Ano;el of death had seized me for his 
 own, and lo I the Angel of life comes and blows a 
 new breath into my nostrils ! " 
 
 Accordingly at the next ensuing Durbar, the 
 Kajah, in a most complimentary manner, conferred 
 the rank of Sirdar, and the title " Bahauder Jiing^'' 
 on the happy Persian ; and presented him with a full 
 Khelaut, comprising a splendid dress, a noble charger, 
 and a complete suit of chain armour, with casque 
 and gauntlets of steel, inlaid with gold ; a sword and 
 shield, bow and arrows, spear, matchlock, and dagger. 
 
 On retiring from the presence, Morad declared 
 that his star was exalted far beyond all other planets ; 
 his head touched the very threshold of the Seventh 
 heaven ; and that, honoured as he was in his adopted 
 country, he would bid adieu for ever to the fair 
 plain of Shirauz and its " matchless borders."
 
 252 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 CHAP. XIX. ' 
 
 THE FEAST OF CAMA DEO. 
 
 Amongst tlie miliions who inhabit the* rich and 
 fertile plains of Hindoostan, the feast of Cama Deo * 
 is held in higher veneration and repute than any of 
 the other holyday festivities of that pleasure-loving 
 people. The deity in whose honour it is held is 
 represented, in the singular mythology of the East, 
 as the son of Maya, or the general attracting Power, 
 and is married to Reti, or Affection ; his bosom friend 
 being Vasanti, or Spring. 
 
 The festival of this Hindoo Cupid is held in the 
 month Chaitra, the joyous period when the genial 
 influence of returning spring is hailed with music, 
 dancing, and jollity ; in which all sects of the Trimurti 
 creed join, indiscriminately, with harmony and good- 
 fellowship. It is, beyond all others, the popular festival 
 •svith the lower classes, and constitutes a species of 
 carnival that lasts four weeks, during which men forget 
 both their restraints and distinctions : the poorest may 
 cast the red powder upon his lord ; the wife is freed 
 
 * The cfod of love.
 
 THE FEAST OF CAMA DEO. 253 
 
 from her habitual respect for her husband, and nothmg 
 is heard or seen but singing, dancing, and merry- 
 making. For the last eight days the labourer ceases en- 
 tirely from his toil, and the cultivator quits his field, 
 deeming it impious to attend to any thing in this 
 season of delight but the voice of unlimited hilarity. 
 
 It was the first day of this joyous festival, which 
 was wont to be held with great splendor at the 
 Court of Mysore ; though the present anniversary was 
 likely to be one of more than ordinary enjoyment, 
 from the circumstance of the Beo-um's choice of a 
 husband being also appointed for the happy occasion. 
 The morning sun beheld the festive groups preparing 
 for the pleasures of the day, as it rose above the hori- 
 zon, and scattered the mists of night from the lovely 
 bowers of the Laul Bang, which were rapidly putting 
 forth their beauties, under the influence of the glo- 
 rious luminary. The gaieties of the festival increased 
 Avith the advancing day ; and the inhabitants of the 
 city poured forth like swarming bees on the verdant 
 plain that lay north of the Cauvery, which was the 
 place appropriated for scenes of this nature; the 
 island itself not offering space enough for the nume- 
 rous sports exhibited on such occasions, or the mul- 
 titudes that flocked to witness them. 
 
 Far as the eye could reach, to where the jungle 
 spread its leafy screen, the plain was crowded with 
 tents, booths, and pavilions ; decorated with gaudy
 
 254 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 flags and streamers, and filled with merry-making 
 parties clothed in gala robes of gold and tissue, and 
 decked with glittering ornaments. As if intoxicated 
 with delight, the people danced along the plain, scat- 
 tering rose-water over each other, by means of sy- 
 ringes; or flinging about saffron-coloured powder, 
 highly perfumed, and rose leaves ; each merry maker 
 being furnished with a basket filled for the ^occasion 
 with these fragrant missiles. On every side the 
 pipe and tabor sounded merrily, and the buzz of 
 frolicsome and happy crowds filled the air; which 
 was actually impregnated with clouds of pink and 
 yellow powder, flung around in the greatest profusion, 
 in allusion to the blossoms which nature, as it wer# 
 in sport, scatters over the earth at this lovely season 
 of the year. 
 
 Every eye was attracted by the splendor of the 
 royal pavilion, where the Rajah and his family sat to 
 witness the sports of the people and join in their 
 hilarity ; while the crimson silk Kanauts or walls of the 
 magnificent suite of tents were thrown back, to admit 
 the unobstructed gaze of the multitude. The roof of 
 the pavilion was composed of crimson cloth, relieved 
 by yellow embroidery ; the summit being crowned 
 with golden spires, and decorated with splendid flags 
 and banners. A long, open arcade, composed of a 
 number of connected Semianas *, formed the approach 
 
 * Awnings.
 
 THE FEAST OF CAMA DEO. 255 
 
 to the pavilion. The ground was spread with silken 
 Persian carpets of the finest texture and most beautiful 
 patterns, and the Semianas overhead were lined with 
 Cashmere shawls frino-ed with o-old. 
 
 But the interior of the pavilion displayed a con- 
 stellation of riches and beauty that beggars description. 
 Indeed the sage Oodiaver, who was present, arrayed 
 in a magnificent Khelaut, or dress of honour, presented 
 to him by the princess for this great occasion, remarked 
 to his friend Moracl Khan, in the pride of his heart, 
 that ^^the splendor of the Rajah's pavilion would 
 silence the nightingale of the garden of eloquence." 
 
 The lining of this gorgeous tent was of crimson 
 velvet, richly embroidered with gold in a variety of 
 beautiful patterns ; and in the centre was a canopy 
 of the same material, so abundantly set with gold, 
 pearls, and precious stones, that the velvet was scarce- 
 ly distinguishable. Beneath this costly canopy, on a 
 splendid ivory musnud, presented to him by his con- 
 temporary monarch, the mighty Aurungzeb, sat 
 Eajah Juggur Deo, the father of his people : and on 
 either hand the Ranee and the princess occupied 
 musnuds of inferior magnificence ; for as yet the 
 Mussulmaun custom of secluding females, had not 
 been adopted by Hindoo families remote from 
 foreign influence and example. 
 
 But amongst the thousands of fair forms who con- 
 gregated to the festival, it would be difiicult, perhaps
 
 256 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 impossible, to find a higher prize in the lottery of life 
 than the Princess Lachema, the youthful heiress and 
 only child of the Kajah ; for never, perhaps, did the 
 brio-ht vision of a sanguine lover embody to his ra- 
 vished sight a form of greater symmetry and grace, or 
 a face of more exquisite loveliness. Nor was it the 
 mere physical beauty of the Fawn-eyed Maid, as she 
 was universally designated, that won the admiration 
 of all who saw her : the superior intellect that beamed 
 over all — the magic of her smile, and the invariable 
 sweetness of expression that illumined her features, as 
 the sage Oodiaver justly remarked in one of his Birth- 
 day Odes — were such only as we can Imagine to have 
 graced the Gandharbas,* those peerless children of 
 Casyapa (Sire of the gods), the most beautiful of the 
 celestial spirits. 
 
 There was, in truth, an artless witchery — an un- 
 studied magic — about the young princess that few, if 
 any, could withstand. The exquisite symmetry of 
 her form, the beauty of her features, and the grace of 
 her motions, were all attractions unrivalled in their 
 respective spheres : but the melting languor of those 
 fawn-like eyes, from which she derived a title far 
 more endearing than any of the artificial distinctions 
 of rank, indicated a soul susceptible of the fondest 
 Impressions; and bespoke the heaven of love that 
 awaited him who could awake the sensibilities of her 
 
 * The Glendoveers of Soutlicy's poem.
 
 THE FEAST OF CAMA DEO. 257 
 
 heart, though inexpressibly remote from the volup- 
 tuous fire of sensual expression. 
 
 Around this regal group stood in a circle the royal 
 suitors of the peerless Lachema, dressed in splendid 
 armour or richly embroidered mantles, according to 
 the fancy of the wearer ; and beyond them appeared 
 the principal chiefs and great officers of state in their 
 military costume and robes of ceremony. 
 
 The lustre of the sovereign's virtues was reflected 
 by the .Rajapoot nobility who owned his sway, and 
 whose daring exploits in the field had obtained for 
 them the glorious title of " The Sword of the Hindoo 
 Faith : " but splendid as their virtues were, the fame 
 of all was eclipsed by that of Kistna Bahauder, a 
 lineal descendant of Yijeya, the founder of the My- 
 sore dynasty ; whose military talents, even more than 
 his royal lineage, had placed him in the high position 
 of Dulwoy, or Commander-in-chief of the armies of 
 Mysore. Of noble stature and manly beauty of face 
 and person, the physical superiority of Prince Kistna 
 was amply seconded by great natural talents; and 
 his education having been sedulously attended to (by 
 no means a sine qua non with the Rajapoot nobility), 
 he was not only perfect in all those martial exercises 
 which bespeak the finished cavalier, but his mental 
 endowments were also of the very highest order. 
 
 A troop of lovely Devadasi* , or sacred singers 
 
 * Literally, slaves of the god. ' 
 VOL. I. S
 
 258 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 from the great temple of Sri-Runga, splendidly attired, 
 now made their appearance on the scene, and exhibited 
 one of those mystic dances appropriate to the season, 
 and emblematic of the happiness bestowed upon the 
 earth, under the genial influence of the united god- 
 heads Yasanti and Cama Deo : after wliich one of the 
 troop, whose soft harmonious voice was peculiarly 
 suited to the subject, sang the Hoolee Hymn^ or 
 
 SOXG OF THE SPPJXG. 
 
 Merrily sounds the song of joy, 
 
 "^^Taile dancers tread the festive measure : 
 Merrily beams each melting eye 
 
 That smilingly invites to pleasure ; 
 As brightly o'er the wide expanse 
 
 Of azure heaven the sun is gleaming, 
 While round his car in mystic dance, 
 
 The genii of the sky are beaming. 
 It is boon Nature's natal day, 
 
 When from her cold and wintry bed, 
 Adorn'd with flowers and blossoms gay, * 
 
 She lifts again her joyous head ; 
 And o'er the earth in endless showers 
 Her ample horn of plenty pours. 
 But nature smiles, and sicies are bright 
 
 In vain, 'till thou, our maiden queen, 
 Shine forth in all thy peerless light. 
 
 And sparkle o'er the happy scene.
 
 THE FEAST OF CAM A DEO. 259 
 
 'Tis now the season of the year 
 
 When nature's treasures all are sprmging, 
 When through the groves and in the air 
 
 The feather 'd tribes are gaily singing : 
 When o'er the flowret hums the bee, 
 And drains its nectar cheerily. 
 When southern breezes gently play 
 
 Upon the tops of lofty mountains, 
 And softly falls the silver spray 
 
 Of cool and ever-gushing fountains. 
 When leaves are green in forest glades, 
 
 And glisten in the silent showers. 
 And bleeding hearts urge love-sick maids 
 
 To court the gloom of lonely bowers. 
 But hearts are warm and eyes are bright 
 
 In vain, till thou, our maiden queen, 
 Shine forth in all thy peerless light. 
 
 And sparkle o'er the happy scene. 
 
 Now sweetly Heri's breathing flute 
 Resounds in Vindravana's shades. 
 Where for his blissful smiles dispute 
 
 AVith amorous fire the shepherd maids : 
 While young Vasanti, crown'd with flowers, 
 Leads up the dance amid the bowers. 
 Where round the rich Asoca twine 
 The myrtle and the eglantine. 
 Or smiling with delight he roves 
 With Cama through the blushing groves. 
 Where heating flowers their venom lend 
 To tip the arrows of his friend, 
 s 2
 
 260 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 But Love is warm and Spring is bright 
 In vain, till thou, our maiden queen, 
 
 Shine forth in all thy peerless light. 
 And sparkle o'er the happy scene. 
 
 The melody of this popular chant was not thrown 
 away upon IndlfFerent or ungrateful ears, and a regal 
 largesse was showered upon the smiling Devadasi; 
 while the royal suitors vied with each other in re- 
 warding the fair singers for their well-turned compli- 
 ment to the maiden queen comprised in the chorus, 
 which was enthusiastically sung by all present ; the 
 simplicity of the air fortunately admitting volun- 
 teer contributions without much detriment to the 
 harmony. 
 
 The dancers having retired, the company now pre- 
 pared for another act of the festival amusements ; and 
 a tray of round silver bowls, containing gold dust 
 and silver leaf pulverized having been placed on a 
 footstool before the Eajah, the sport commenced. 
 The E-ajah, the Ranee, and the princess, opened the 
 •campaign by throwing a handful of gold dust at each 
 other ; and this being the signal for a general license, 
 all the royal suitors, the military chiefs, and the sage 
 councillors of state, who were admitted guests in the 
 royal pavilion, very soon joined eagerly in the sport, 
 with a religious zeal and devotion highly edifying. 
 This frolicksome mood continued until the gold and 
 silver bowls were exhausted of their ammunition, and
 
 THE EEAST OF CAMA DEO. 261 
 
 the whole party covered from head to foot with the 
 glittering powder. 
 
 One little accident, however, occurred in the 
 melee, which the court historian has preserved with 
 religious care. In the midst of the action each of the 
 suitors put himself forward conspicuously to catch the 
 favours of the Fawn-eyed Maid, hoping thereby to 
 form some judgment of the bent of her inclinations. 
 The sage Oodiaver, prompted by ambition of an 
 humbler character, advanced also to the charge, with 
 more zeal than discretion ; for, unluckily placing 
 himself between the Begum and prince Kistna, at 
 whom she was preparing to discharge a handful of 
 gold dust, the gentle Lachema, disappointed in her 
 aim, and influenced doubtless by a little excusable 
 malice, flung it all into the eyes of the sage, who was 
 thereby effectually prevented from witnessing the re- 
 maining festivities of the day. 
 
 At the conclusion of the sport refreshments were 
 handed round to the royal party ; and much laughter 
 and small-talk resulted from the engagement, which 
 had afforded great amusement also to the spectators 
 outside the pavilion. 
 
 A series of popular entertainments succeeded be- 
 fore the royal tent, to which all were admitted indis- 
 criminately. Amidst the din of pipes and tabors the 
 Bazijccrs, or jugglers, played off their extraordinary 
 tricks, and proved to the uninitiated that nature and 
 s 3
 
 262 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 art were alike subject to tlielr preternatural skill and 
 dexterity. To these succeeded the Jliettri tribe, 
 unrivalled in the race, and skilled to wage the mimic 
 fight, with nimble foot and sinewy frame. The 
 Loolies, or tumblers and rope-dancers next played their 
 gambols, and sprang elastic into the air, as if at every 
 bound they sought to regain their native element. In 
 gorgeous finery arrayed, the mimic tribe next, showed 
 their pantomimic skill, and blazoned to the wonder- 
 ing eyes of rustic gazers the glorious beings of 
 Swerga, crowned with celestial splendor; often di- 
 versifying the scene with humorous tales or biting 
 satire ; while shouts of laughter and mirth unre- 
 strained pealed from the gay and happy crowd. 
 
 Intoxicated with the succession of pleasures that 
 courted their acceptance on every side, the enjoyment 
 of the multitude had reached its utmost height, 
 when a choral stream of music stole sweetly over 
 their boisterous mirth ; now swelling on the jungle 
 echoes, now dying in a plaintive close, like those magic 
 strains which the ^ollan lyre, when every earthly 
 sound is mute, pours richly as its fairy chords are 
 swept by the whispering zephyr. 
 
 While the symphony thus drew nigh, the shrill 
 tones of female voices rose above the rest; and as 
 they died away, again a manly chorus burst forth of 
 <^ Mahadeo Pole ! Bole ! Bole ! " 
 
 "With involuntary awe and fervent devotion the
 
 THE FEAST OF CAMA DEO. 263 
 
 people, even in the midst of their festivities, caught 
 up the sound ; and the sacred invocation, " 3Iahadeo 
 Bole ! " echoed from one to another, to the complete 
 exclusion of all earthly ideas, or profane delight. The 
 frantic joys that fired every bosom were at once 
 calmed to rest; and the light and fickle flame of 
 pleasure expired before the well-known chorus of 
 the Destroying Deity, as those who sang this hal- 
 lowed burthen now drew nigh. 
 
 At length issuing from the dense multitude, who 
 reverently made way for their passage, a train of male 
 and female pilgrims advanced Avith slow and measured 
 steps. On their heads they bore copper urns, filled 
 with the divine water of the Ganges, and sealed with 
 the signet of the presiding Brahmin at Gangotri. 
 Their mellow voices mingled harmoniously in the 
 sacred chant, while their downcast eyes and meek 
 deportment indicated the fervid zeal of those devotees 
 who consecrate their lives to the holy task of con- 
 veying, even to the remotest parts of India, the " sin- 
 removing " waters of the " Sacred Eiver," which all 
 who can afford it will spare no labour or expense to 
 obtain. 
 
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 264 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 CHAP. XX. 
 
 THE PILGEIMS OF THE GANGES. 
 
 There is, perhaps, no exertion of Hindoo devotion 
 regarded with higher reverence than the pilgrimage 
 to Gangotri ; where the Ganges forces a passage 
 amidst the Himalaya range, and rushing through a 
 cavern precipitates itself into a vast basin at the foot 
 of the mountain. Superstition has given to the form 
 of the cavern the semblance of a cow's mouth, whence 
 it is called Gangotri ; and a pilgrimage to this sacred 
 spot is supposed to redeem the person who performs 
 it from troubles in this world, and to ensure a happy- 
 transit through all the stages of transmigration which 
 he may have to undergo. The water drawn from 
 this place is believed to be so pure as neither to 
 evaporate nor become corrupted by keeping ; and 
 those who are fortunate enousrh to be the bearers 
 of it are received throughout every part of India 
 with marks of peculiar reverence and esteem. 
 
 The troop of pilgrims who now advanced through 
 the festive throng were accordingly greeted on all 
 sides with every token of respect, which a religious 
 people can bestow on persons of superior sanctity;
 
 THE PILGRIISIS OF THE GANGES. 265 
 
 who have possessed themselves, by their bodily fa- 
 tisjucs and sufterino's, of the certain means of olcansino' 
 not only their own sins, bnt those of all that can otter 
 them an adeqnate remuneration for so great a blessing. 
 
 Separating on either hand, amidst salutations of 
 "Rami Ram! MaJiadco f Role! Role ! '' ihc crowd 
 offered a ready passage to the wayworn travellers, 
 who, attracted by the superior splendor of the royal 
 pavilion, proceeded directly thither, and drew up 
 before the Eaj all's throne, with all that meek and 
 humble deference which in India attends every dis- 
 play of sovereign jiower and dignity. 
 
 A single glance served to explain to the royal 
 party that the new-comers were pilgrims from the 
 Ganges, laden with the water of the sacred river; 
 and the Kajali signified his wish that they should be 
 treated with all possible respect, and introduced into 
 the presence. They were accordingly ushered in ; 
 and having made the customary obeisance to the 
 throne, they one and all prostrated themselves before 
 the musnud of the Begum, as if their mission was 
 especially addressed to her. 
 
 Having resumed their places, the mellow voices of 
 the pilgrims were now again called into requisition ; 
 and as they raised their choral hymn, it was remarked 
 by the musical amateurs of the court, that never before 
 had they heard such transcendent melody from rovers 
 of this class.
 
 266 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 THE PILGRIMS' HYIMX. 
 
 O'er many a moor and many a mount, 
 We've travell'd to that mystic fount 
 
 Whence Gunga's holy stream is flowing ; 
 And low before her sacred tree * 
 We've blest the mild Divinity, 
 
 With ardent love our bosoms glowing. 
 
 Mahadeo! Mahadeo! 
 
 We've bathed in the crystal Avave 
 That sparkles in Gangotri's cave, 
 
 Where Gunga's mighty waters gushing 
 Pure from the cow's all holy mouth, 
 Seek the warm valleys of the South, 
 
 O'er fragrant beds of amber rushing. 
 
 Mahadeo ! Mahadeo ! 
 
 And, ne'er by us to be forgot, 
 We've visited that sacred spot 
 
 Where, Lotus-borne upon the rivek, 
 Young Cama Deo floated down, 
 And pluck'd the patal buds to crown 
 
 The treasures of his flowery quiver .f 
 
 Mahadeo! Mahadeo! 
 
 * On the summit of the mountain Cailassa Cimgri, there is a 
 Bhowjpootre tree, from the root of which gushes a small stream, 
 which the people say is the source of the Ganges, and that it 
 comes from Vaicontha, or heaven. 
 
 f Cama Deo is said to have been first seen floating down the
 
 THE PILGRIMS OF THE GANGES. 267 
 
 "We wander far o'er hill and plain, 
 Where peaceful Casyapa doth reign, 
 
 Or Cartikeia spreads his slaughters * ; 
 Through winter's wind, and summer's calm, 
 To yield to all the healing balm 
 
 Of Gunga's sin-removing waters. 
 
 Mahadeo! Mahadeo! 
 
 When the pilgrims' choral lay had ceased, and ere 
 the applause had subsided which was called forth by 
 its superior melody, a young and lovely Yogmi, or 
 female pilgrim, advanced from the wandering troop, 
 with a look all innocent and bland; as if the sin- 
 removing powers of Gunga had purified her beau- 
 teous frame from its terrestrial dross, and prepared 
 her, while yet on earth, to join the celestial choir of 
 Swerga. 
 
 Trembling with apparent alarm, as if her timid 
 youth was overawed by the august assembly into 
 which she was about to intrude, though every action 
 was accompanied with the most exquisite grace, the 
 fair pilgrim glided forward and knelt before the 
 Be2:um's throne. Crossino; her arms on her 
 swelling bosom, and bowing her head to the earth, 
 she remained for a brief space as if absorbed in pro- 
 Ganges on the Nymphae Nelumbo, or Lotus. The exquisitely 
 fragrant flowers of the patali are compared by the poets to the 
 quiver of Cama Deo. 
 
 * Casyapa is the Sire of the gods, and, like Saturn, a peaceful 
 old deity. Cartikeia is the Hindoo god of war.
 
 268 SAYINDROOG. 
 
 found adoration. At length she rose and with 
 maiden bashfulness removed the screen which had 
 hitherto partially concealed her features; when, 
 amidst a general buzz of admiration, Cashmerian 
 Lillah stood revealed to public view, an utter 
 stranger, as it appeared, to all except her own 
 motley band. 
 
 But now no more was to be seen the richly em- 
 broidered bodice sparkling with jewels, covering, but 
 not concealing from the gaze the faultless symmetry of 
 her bust. 'No more the golden bracelets encircled her 
 rounded arm and delicate wrist. No more the dazzling 
 zone confined the flowing sarie round her fairy waist. 
 No longer rose the silvery sound of anklet chains 
 and tinkling bells, as when she moved harmonious 
 in the dance. Her long luxuriant tresses were 
 not now bound with jasmine wreaths and strings of 
 pearl, but twined in many a glossy braid, with 
 simple neatness, round her lovely brow, and down 
 her tapering neck. No more her large voluptuous 
 eye inflamed the soul with dreams of forbidden bliss ; 
 but clothed in modest robe and simple vest, free 
 from the meretricious aid of art, the fascinating 
 dancer looked the personification of pure and holy 
 innocence. They who knew her not would swear 
 it was a seraph of the skies, and not the treacherous 
 Cashmerian who stood before them; like that de- 
 ceitful Persian flower, the Kerzereh, so deadly yet
 
 THE PILGRIMS OF THE GANGES. 269 
 
 SO beautiful, calling forth all her magic powers to 
 lull the prudent mind of the Begum into unsus- 
 pecting and fatal confidence ! 
 
 With a sweet and graceful motion Lillah now 
 laid at the feet of the princess a charkoh, or damask 
 napkin, richly embroidered with gold, whereon 
 sparkled a crystal ball of exquisite beauty ; which, 
 to the wonder of all present, seemed to contain 
 within its hollow womb a small quantity of pure 
 bright fluid, apparently water. * 
 
 The unfeigned surprise and eager curiosity with 
 which the fair Lachema, and indeed all present, 
 beheld this curious phenomenon, were elevated 
 to a higher sentiment when the lovely pilgrim de- 
 clared the crystal to contain some drops of w^ater 
 from the holiest and most secret fountain of the 
 Ganges, inclosed in the crystal ball by the divine 
 hands of the goddess herself, and committed to her 
 charge as a bridal present to the Fawn-eyed Begum 
 of the South, which would guard her from all latent 
 evil, and confer upon her the blessings of lengthened 
 life and domestic felicity. 
 
 With undoubting confidence, and a heart glowing 
 with gratitude, the royal maid took the w^ondrous gem, 
 and placed it on her pious head, in token of adoration 
 
 * Tavernier informs us that, in the cabinet of the Prince of 
 Monaco, were two large pieces of crystal ; in the middle of one 
 was about a glassful of water, and in the other some moss, 
 naturally inclosed there when the crystals congealed.
 
 270 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 to the benignant donor; for, such was the character of 
 sanctity acquired by the pilgrims to the Ganges, and 
 especially of the Yoginis, who by the practice of the 
 Yoga are supposed to acquire even supernatural 
 powers, that a suspicion of deceit never once entered 
 the thoughts of any present. Educated in a faith 
 which familiarises the mind with wonders of a 
 religious nature, and devout believers in a mytho- 
 logy pregnant with examples of preternatural com- 
 munication between gods and mortals, to doubt the 
 truth of the pilgrim's story would be at once an 
 insult to their beloved princess, and an act of im- 
 piety to her protecting deity. While some, therefore, 
 admired the beauty of the gem, and others gazed on 
 the lovely form of the pilgrim, all listened with pious 
 attention and unhesitatincj confidence while the fair 
 Cashmerian, addressing herself to the princess, re- 
 lated as follows her wild and wondrous tale : — 
 
 " My father made a vow to heaven, for blessings 
 vouchsafed to his prayers, to undertake a pilgrimage 
 to the sacred fount of the Ganges, where it descends 
 from Vaicontha, and gushes from the root of the 
 Bhovijpootre tree, on the summit of Cailassa-Cungriy 
 the loftiest mountain of the earth ; and I, his loved 
 and only child, accompanied my pious sire, to cheer 
 his spirits and minister to his wants. 
 
 " It would tire your Sacred Highness to relate 
 the evils that befel us, and the hardships we suffered
 
 THE PILGRIMS OF THE GANGES. 271 
 
 in tills long, long pilgrimage ; which sorely tried my 
 tender years, and the feeble age of my father : but at 
 length we reached that wondrous tree, beneath whose 
 precious root the watery Deity descends with gentle 
 murmurs from the feet of Vishnu *, to render fruitful 
 and prosperous the nations of the earth. 
 
 " Scarcely had we reached the sacred spot when we 
 beheld a miracle. A wreath of pure ethereal snow 
 had fallen into the sparkling stream, whose wondrous 
 quality congealed it instantly into that ball of crystal 
 which T have travelled many a weary step to consign, 
 O miracle of beauty ! into thy lovely hand. | 
 
 " The tempting prize no sooner met the wondering 
 gaze of my unhappy sire, as it sparkled with super- 
 natural lustre In the sacred stream, than he rashly 
 put forth his hand and seized the gem, before he had 
 uttered a single prayer to fit him for the enterprize. 
 Scarcely, however, had he touched the wondrous 
 crystal when he felt the anger of the goddess ; for his 
 hand underwent a miraculous change from flesh and 
 bone and sinew, to icy-cold impenetrable stone ; and 
 while angry lightnings flashed around, and dreadful 
 
 * The Saivas assert that the Ganges descends from the head 
 of Siva ; but the Vishnaivas contend that it first springs from 
 the feet of Vishnu, and hence claim a superiority for the Pre- 
 serving Power. 
 
 f Some imagine that crystal is snow turned to ice, which 
 hardens in thirty years, and is turned to a rock by age.
 
 272 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 peals of thunder shook the mountain to its base, a 
 voice exclaimed in awful tones. 
 
 Rash man ! the gem is not for thee, 
 But for that mild, benignant Sree *, 
 Whose matchless grace and angel smile, 
 Protect the holy Runga's isle. 
 
 " Thus punished for his involuntary transgression, 
 my unhappy parent embraced the sublime cre'ed of the 
 Yogies. Elevating his offending hand into the air, 
 he vowed it should continue thus extended, without 
 rest or cessation, until holy Gunga should relent and 
 heal the repenting sinner. In vain I begged with 
 sighs and tears to stay and tend his feeble age, and 
 soothe him under his extraordinary penance: he 
 sternly answered me, ' Begone ! seek out that pure 
 and lovely mortal divinity for whose hand the gem 
 was destined ; her goodness will reward thy zeal, and 
 her piety Avill obtain my pardon.' 
 
 '^ Obedient to the orders of my sire, I have 
 traversed many a distant land, in search of the object 
 of my heartfelt solicitude; nor was it long ere the 
 voice of fame gave me a clue to guide my erring 
 footsteps, for every tongue was eloquent in praise of 
 the Fawn-eyed Begum of Mysore. Here then I lay 
 
 * According to the Hindoos every city has its own Sire 
 (Fortune or Prosperity), which in former times was represented 
 by an image and a temple of its own.
 
 THE PILGRIMS OF THE GANGES. 273 
 
 my burthen down, and bend in adoration at thy royal 
 musnud; for this is Rimga's holy isle, and my 
 prophetic heart tells me thou art its protecting 
 goddess." 
 
 The wondrous tale was heard with silent awe by 
 all the inmates of the royal pavilion, and loud ap- 
 plauses hailed its interesting close : for this gracious 
 proof of the approbation of Heaven, thus signally 
 bestowed on their future queen, was felt as an 
 individual benefit by all who owned her benignant 
 sway. 
 
 The gentle Lachema herself, while she bent in 
 grateful adoration at the altar of the beneficent deity 
 who had conferred upon her this inestimable treasure, 
 felt a corresponding interest for the chosen messenger 
 of the goddess ; that young and lovely pilgrim, whose 
 apparently artless innocence had already found a 
 way to her own pure and unsuspecting heart. With 
 winning voice and radiant eyes she chased her 
 sorrows and relieved her wants; and before many 
 days had elapsed, the artful Cashmerian found herself 
 installed in the suite of the princess ; a situation 
 which she lost no opportunity of improving, to the 
 further advancement of her own pernicious and 
 detestable designs. 
 
 VOL. I.
 
 274 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 CHAP. XXL 
 
 THE GAEDEN OF ROSES. 
 
 Spring had now spread around its flowers and 
 verdure, and the eastern gales were gently blowing, 
 redolent of perfume, from the spicy shores of Malaya ; 
 wafting over distant lands and seas the mingled odour 
 of the clove, the nutmeg, and the cinnamon. Loud 
 humming through the jasmine and honeysuckle that 
 bloomed in the clustering bowers of the Laid Baugh, 
 the bees, delighted with their golden spoils, pursued 
 their honied labours, or slumbered in the drowsy 
 blossoms of the Nilica, which spreads at eve a rich 
 odour on the breeze ; and when the sun relumes the 
 horizon sheds its night-flowers, in sacrifice, as it were, 
 to the god of day. 
 
 Amid those shady groves and winding alleys, 
 where art and nature vied with mutual energy to 
 form a suitable residence for the Fawn-eyed Maid, 
 the Nagacesara, one of the most delightful trees on 
 earth, poured around the delicious odour of its 
 blossoms, whose silver j)etals are likened by the poets 
 to the shafts that grace the quiver of Cama Deo.
 
 THE GAEDEJT OF KOSES. 275 
 
 There the richly-scented Madhavi twined lovingly 
 round the lofty mango, which formed in itself an em- 
 bowering shade of fragrant flowers and pallid leaves ; 
 while from the odorous Cetaca, with briglit and 
 opening blossoms, a breeze respired like the amorous 
 breath of Cama, and the flowery dells and shadowy 
 groves resounded with the Cecil's thrilling strains. 
 
 It was a bright and lovely scene that met the eye 
 at this joyous season, amid the cool recesses of the 
 Laul Baugh ; whose rich luxuriant foliage formed a 
 delightful screen, that just admitted a mild and rosy 
 light to flicker on the velvet sod, and play round the 
 marble statues and the sparkling fountains, whose 
 murmurs fell soothingly on the ear ; presenting 
 images of coolness and repose, delightful in a climate 
 of such intense and overpowering fervour. 
 
 The graceful trees, laden with young fruit, and 
 their stems enwreathed with flowering creepers, 
 resembled, as the sage Oodiaver poetically remarked, 
 the sacred maidens of Swerga, bedecked with garlands 
 of celestial jewels. The plantain waved there its broad 
 glossy leaves, emblem of coolness ; where the musing 
 genii of the shades, to whom it is dedicated, com- 
 posed their wandering thoughts to rest. The scarlet 
 blossoms of the Jamhu, or rose-apple, lay scattered 
 over the verdant sod, forming a rich and variegated 
 carpet of living flowers ; and the pomegranate in the 
 sunny nooks showed its dark-green leaf and beautiful 
 
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 276 SAVIN DEOOG. 
 
 crimson buds; while the bending Baijas^ shed its 
 perfume over the crystal waters of the Cauver}-, and 
 the rosy leaves of the lotus swam down the tranquil 
 stream. 
 
 On the verdant banks of the sacred river a bevy of 
 graceful girls, the Begum's maiden train, with spark- 
 ling eyes and laughing voices, were frolicking like young 
 gazelles, through the flowery parterres and leafy laby- 
 rinths. Some were weavino; wreaths and cfarlands of 
 chambaga flowers to adorn their lovely hair ; and 
 others, riding on the silken swing, were chanting the 
 joys of the vernal season ; or indulging the delusive 
 visions of love on the sloping margin of the stream, 
 in whose limpid tide they delighted to plunge their 
 polished limbs, during the fervid heat of noon, or at 
 the sultry close of day. 
 
 Apart from all, two lovely maidens were roving 
 tosrether throu2;h the windino^ o-lades, discussins: in 
 deep and confidential chat some matter of grave and 
 interesting import : one of them apparently absorbed 
 in some revery of the heart, the intensity of which 
 blinded her to the evident design of her companion 
 to worm herself into her unsuspecting confidence. 
 These were the Royal Maid of Mysore, and her new 
 favourite Curreena ; for this was the name adopted 
 by the false Cashmerian, who had already won the 
 
 * A fraorrant cane.
 
 THE GARDEN OF EOSES. 277 
 
 affection of the Begum (herself too pure to imagine 
 deceit in others) by her tuneful tongue, her open 
 countenance and artless look, her fascinating beauty, 
 and the rare talents which every day more and more 
 developed themselves. 
 
 The period now drawing nigh that was to fix the 
 destiny of the Fawn-eyed Maid, she felt her gentle 
 breast a prey to many an anxious thought ; for none 
 of all the royal suitors who contended for her hand 
 had ever touched her heart, or inspired her with a 
 sentiment warmer than esteem; while, such is the 
 jDerversity of fate, he for whom she fondly and hourly 
 sighed seem.ed altogether absorbed in the pomp and 
 splendor of martial glory, and totally reckless of that 
 god's control who had so entirely usurped her ow^n 
 faculties. 
 
 As her well-regulated mind now felt it a paramount 
 duty to conquer and subdue her liopeless flame, she 
 tried by turns all those soothing remedies which had 
 obtained a proverbial reputation for efficacy, in the 
 annals of blighted affection. With artless simplicity 
 she applied the cooling sandal to her agitated breast, 
 but found, to her dismay, that it yielded no relief 
 whatever; nor had the aquatic saivala any happier 
 effect. She entwined her lovely arms with bracelets 
 of lotus leaves and fibres, which were supposed to 
 have wonderful efficacy in allaying the fever of 
 passion, but with no better success. She then ap- 
 
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 278 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 plied to the region of the heart the roots of the virana 
 grass, or avadaha, a name which implies a power of 
 subduing feverish heat ; and for which purpose, as the 
 poet relates, it was brought by Gautami to her pupil 
 Sacontala. 
 
 But whatever effect the virana may have had on 
 the heroine of the drama, it had none whatever on the 
 unhappy Begum, who felt her flame only burn the 
 brighter at every fruitless attempt she made to sup- 
 press it. In short, every love-subduing specific with 
 which she had become acquainted, from traditionary 
 lore or the pages of romance, seemed to have lost its 
 power ; and the despairing Lachema, shunning as 
 much as possible the public eye, which she imagined 
 could penetrate to the innermost recesses of her heart, 
 sought to hide her wretchedness in the embowering 
 shades which hung over the crystal tide of the Cau- 
 very ; where unobserved she could waft her burning 
 sighs across its sacred breast, to the grotto of its pre- 
 siding deity. 
 
 On this delightful spot, as the pensive Begum was 
 straying with her newly-chosen favourite, apart from 
 her other attendants, the wily Cashmerian, in a soft 
 and sympathising voice, entreated her royal mistress 
 to inform her why she wore so pensive an air, which 
 was not in unison either with the hilarity of the 
 season, or the beauty of the surrounding scenery. 
 
 " The pensive air you allude to," replied the prin-
 
 THE GARDEN OF ROSES. 279 
 
 cess, " springs from an apprehension that some latent 
 evil is permitted by the angry deities to linger over 
 me, for some misdeed of mine yet unforgiven. For 
 when to the holy shrine of Vishnu, at Mailcottah, in 
 humble supplication/to that awful power to guide my 
 feeble reason to a happy choice, at this critical period 
 of my fate, my dear mother sent a golden moorut, 
 accompanied with rich gifts, to propitiate the good 
 offices of the Brahmins, they were all seized by Kempe 
 Goud, that dreadful and marauding Bheel ; and 
 doubtless now the angry god hath closed his ear to 
 all my supplications." 
 
 " Great princess," said Curreena, smiling furtively 
 at the pious simplicity of her mistress, " let not such 
 groundless fears disturb your royal breast ; for the 
 crime of another cannot, with any justice, call for 
 vengeance upon you." 
 
 " 'Tis kind of you," said the gentle Lachema, " to 
 soothe my apprehensions : but inscrutable and all-wise 
 are the ways of the Deity, who may have looked upon 
 the wickedness of Kemj)e as only secondary to some 
 culpable negligence on our part which provoked it. 
 But however this be, since the unhappy event I have 
 had repeated gleams, in my waking thoughts as well 
 as in the visions of the night, of shadowy evils without 
 end, which seem to hang over my devoted head. 
 Even upon that festive day when you first appeared 
 amongst us, when all my hopes were bright, and all 
 
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 280 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 my thoughts radiant with joy, an incident occurred 
 which suddenly chilled my heart, and turned my sun- 
 shine to gloom and despondency." 
 
 "In the name of Doorg — of Vishnu, I mean," 
 cried the alamied Lillah, trembling lest some un- 
 toward event should have aroused the suspicions of 
 the princess — "in the name of Vishnu, what can 
 your Highness allude to ? " 
 
 *'I allude," replied the princess, "to the terrible 
 influence of the ^ Evil Eye ' to which I fear I am now 
 subject : for on that happy day, in the midst of my 
 enjoyment, surrounded by all the pleasures this world 
 can afford, I beheld a one-eyed man amongst the 
 laughing, happy crowd : whose hideous form looked as 
 if he belonged not to this world, or held communion 
 with the joyous creatures around him. My vision 
 became rooted to the spot, as if attracted by the gaze 
 of the basilisk; till the monster, seeing that he had 
 completely fixed my attention, glared on me like 
 a fiend, then turned away and disappeared amongst 
 the crowd." 
 
 Curreena, who at once recognised the portrait of 
 the one-eyed Bheel, endeavoured to calm the agitated 
 thoughts of the princess, by remarking that, in great 
 popular assemblies, it was not always possible to 
 prevent the intrusion of disagreeable objects. 
 
 "Nothing can be more true," said the Begum, 
 " but this was no casual occurrence ; for a2:ain was
 
 THE GAKDEN OF EOSES. 281 
 
 that evil eye bent upon me, witli all its harrowing 
 ferocity, amidst the festivities of the day — nay, 
 thrice ere they drew to a conclusion did that one- 
 eyed monster meet my view! Now in my nightly 
 dreams he never fails to scare my sight ; and though 
 amongst my favourite trinkets I wear a necklace 
 of the turquoise*, such is the dreadful power he 
 seems to wield, that every hour adds fresh terror 
 to my heart, for every object I behold assumes, by 
 some extraordinary visual deception, the monster's 
 grim deformity." 
 
 Curreena, now seeing the necessity of diverting the 
 thoughts of the Beo'um from dwellino- on a cir- 
 
 o o o 
 
 cumstance which might lead to the discovery of her 
 plot, exclaimed, — 
 
 ^^ Jey Sri Lachema! Jey Cama Deo! Beautiful 
 and august princess, dear both to men and angels ! 
 how little cause have you to apprehend the uncertain 
 augury of gloomy dreams or evil eyes, possessed as 
 you arc of unequalled beauty, wealth, and power, and 
 surrounded by a royal train of adoring lovers, who 
 proudly w^ear your silken fetters. How gl^tlly w^ould 
 your devoted servant know, oh ! pardon the boldness 
 of the wish, the name of that happy mortal on whom 
 your Highness will bestow the treasure of your lovely 
 hand." 
 
 * This gem is supposed to protect the wearer against the 
 glances of the " Evil Eye," or from looks foreboding misfortune.
 
 282 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 ^^ On that," said the Begum with a sigh, " Fate 
 alone must decide, and inclination perhaps may never 
 be consulted in the choice. You doubtless know the 
 laws that grant to maidens of the Rajapoot race, and 
 of royal lineage, the proud prerogative of selecting 
 amongst all their assembled lovers the lord of their 
 affections, and the chosen of their hearts. But though 
 I do not venture to impugn the value of the privilege, 
 I fain would draw the fated lot undaunted by the 
 public eye, for tyrant custom requires that the choice 
 be made in full divan ; and sadly do I fear that when 
 the hour of trial arrives I may lack nerve or boldness, 
 call it which you will, to bestow the garland * on any 
 one of those princes who honour me with their ad- 
 dresses." 
 
 ^' Now, Cama, god of love, forbid ! " said the 
 smiling Curreena, "that the bliss of one — the hopes 
 of all — should meet with so cruel a disappointment. 
 But I foresee that a happier destiny awaits him who 
 is most worthy amongst the royal train of lovers. 
 The Rajah of Cochin, perhaps " 
 
 " No, no," cried the Begum quickly, " most as- 
 suredly not him that you have named ; for the prince 
 that hopes to inspire my breast with love must be, at 
 least, possessed of manly candour, and free from that 
 grovelling cunning which should never find a place 
 in a generous heart." 
 
 * The Burmala, or symbol of aifection.
 
 THE GARDEN OF EOSES. 283 
 
 " Then he of Poonah, perhaps," said Curreena, " is 
 destined to enjoy the bliss divine." 
 
 " Still less, still less," cried the frowning princess : 
 " the bold traitor who keeps his sovereign immured 
 in bondage, and usurps his royal powers, whatever 
 may be his personal qualities, shall never reach my 
 bridal bower." 
 
 " Then, surely," persisted Curreena, " the youthful 
 prince who wields the sceptre of Berar; who is as 
 lovely as the dawn and as graceful as a nymph of 
 Swerga, must touch your heart and seize the glitter- 
 ing prize." 
 
 " Not he, not he," replied the laughing Begum : 
 *' he loves himself too much to love his wife at all ; 
 and would lavish on his senseless mirror those smiles 
 w^hich I should claim by right as mine." 
 
 " What does your Highness think," said the subtle 
 Cashmerian, "of the haughty Lord of Cannanore, 
 whose marine territories confer upon him the high- 
 sounding title of Sovereign of the Sea ? " 
 
 " Ah ! mention not that empty honour," replied the 
 Begum, w^ith a gesture of dislike. "The Cala- 
 paunee* I detest; and fear its prince's royal heart 
 may conceal like fraud and treachery as dwell upon 
 its fickle tide." 
 
 * The natives of India call the sea Cala-paunee, or Black- 
 water ; and they have the most terrible ideas of it, and of the 
 countries beyond it.
 
 284 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 " Then, at least," cried the persevering Cashmc- 
 rian, " the brave Zamorin of j\Ialabar will woo you 
 like a warrior, resolved to die or conquer in the 
 glorious strife." 
 
 " He is, doubtless," cried the Begum, " a valiant 
 knight, well skilled to rule in camp, or guide the 
 destiny of battle ; but the blood of royalty is on his 
 hand, and the heart of royal maiden he should never 
 win." 
 
 *^]Siay, then," said Curreena, "the Rajah of Tan- 
 jore must teach you love and learning both together." 
 
 " Now Heaven forbid ! " exclaimed the Besrum in 
 
 o 
 
 affected alarm, " that I should link my fate with his, 
 or else I might become a subject for anatomy. To 
 clear a doubt, or to illustrate an argument, that 
 scientific Pundit would not hesitate to sacrifice his 
 wife in his thirst for knowledge." 
 
 " Well, surely," cried the tormentor, " you will, 
 at least, bestow your smiles on him who rules the 
 spicy shores of Serindib." 
 
 ''JSTo, no," rejoined the Begum, "I shall never 
 cross the sea from lovely Hindoostan, to rule over 
 foreign serfs. Besides, good heaven ! that prince's 
 eyes are like his native pearls." 
 
 " Oh, then," said Curreena, " I see for whom the 
 glorious prize is destined : the gay, the handsome 
 and the gallant — the darling theme of every tongue 
 — a raging lion in the war — in peace like the flowery
 
 THE GAEDEN OF EOSES. 285 
 
 bow of Cama ; whose generous hand has often filled 
 the soldier's buckler with the shining ore ; whose eagle 
 eye has chilled the foeman's blood, and soothed the 
 anguish of the captive's breast ; whose voice resembles 
 Heri's flute, filling the heart with fond desire. Yes, he 
 alone of all the suitor train deserves to win the peer- 
 less Fawn-eyed Maid ; and I'll consent to lose my 
 eyes if Kistna Bahauder do not wear the garland." 
 
 " Hush ! hush I " exclaimed the blushing maid, 
 while dimpling smiles betrayed the secret of her 
 heart : " you know not him that you have named. 
 He worships the proud deity of war alone, and scorns 
 the petty joys of love. But a truce with this idle 
 badinage ; it is now time to prepare for the festival 
 of the evening, the grandeur and solemnity of which 
 should lead us to far other reflections than those ex- 
 cited by the fickle delusions of Cama Deo."
 
 286 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 CHAR XXII. 
 
 THE MARRIAGE OF THE CAUVERY. 
 
 'Tis night; but over the broad expanse of heaven 
 the fiery rockets are gleaming, and scattering their 
 showers of brilliant stars to the wonder of admiring 
 multitudes. The sulphury fireworks are flashing in a 
 blaze that rivals the glory of day, and with an ever- 
 varying ingenuity of form and device that calls forth 
 loud and lengthened plaudits; while thousands of 
 lamps and torches pour their vivid light on Dowlut 
 Bang's delicious bov/ers, illuminating the lofty pin- 
 nacles of the sacred temples, and the frowning battle- 
 ments of Srirungaputtun, until the whole seem to 
 float in an ocean of rose-coloured flame. 
 
 It is the nuptial night of that beneficent deity who, 
 in the mythology of the Vedas, presides over and 
 personifies the sacred stream of the Cauvery, when 
 by an ancient and mystic rite she weds the god whose 
 holy shrine is encircled by her limpid wave; and 
 borne by his exulting followers, Sri Eunga quits his 
 lofty fane to welcome home his watery bride, and 
 bathe him in her ample flood. For now descending
 
 THE MARRIAGE OF THE CAUVERY. 287 
 
 from those lofty mountains * whence her infant rills 
 derive their source, she swells into a mighty stream, 
 beneath the impetuous torrents of the monsoon, and 
 flows onward to the sea through many lands ; crowning 
 the happy earth in her progress with fruits and flowers 
 and golden grain. 
 
 The long winding streets and spacious bazaars 
 were filled with happy crowds, enjoying the varied 
 amusements .of the festival, while vocal and instru- 
 mental music resounded on every side. The sacred 
 clarion, which required two bearers to support its 
 enormous dimensions, flung its brazen blasts on high, 
 and the royal Nagara sent forth its hollow sound; 
 while pealing matchlocks rang on every side, and 
 exploding fireworks added to the noisy merriment of 
 the scene. 
 
 Through the scarcely moving throng the patient 
 camel plodded his careful way, adorned with silver 
 bells and glitterino; housino^s, and bearino; on his 
 back the golden pennon and kettle drums of some 
 military chieftain. With waving trunk and docile 
 mien the towering elephant moved majestically 
 through the mass, as if proud of his distinguished 
 burthen ; some young and lovely maiden, or superb 
 Rajpootni dame, whose sons had swelled the tide of 
 military glory. Anon a martial troop of cavaliers 
 
 * The western Ghauts.
 
 288 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 appeared prancing through the admmng throng; 
 with lance and shield and burnished armour, reflecting 
 from its polished surface, like a mirror, the thousand 
 flambeaux that blazed on every side. 
 
 And now the solemn cortege of the god appeared 
 in view, amidst shouts of joy and the rattling of in- 
 numerable drums. The sacred pageant was led by 
 a venerable train of Brahmins, the officiati;ig priests 
 of the temple of Sri Eunga. Dressed in long and 
 flowing robes of snowy white, with wrinkled brows, 
 and beards descending to the girdle, they chanted 
 hymns to the praises of their god. With winning 
 softness and bewitching smiles, like spring succeeding 
 •winter, next appeared the Devadasi of the shrine : 
 their sparkling eyes beamed with unwonted lustre, as 
 hand in hand they slowly moved along in graceful 
 measure to the soft music of flutes ; while troops of 
 children, lovely as the day, strewed fragrant flowers 
 in their voluptuous path. 
 
 High over all advanced the Kuth, or triumphal car 
 of the god ; a moving tower of wondrous height, be- 
 decked with gold-embroidered flags, and ornamented 
 with many a curious scene in richly gilded carving ; 
 where mystic symbols and strange unearthly forms, 
 stood out in bold relief and singular combination. 
 Beneath a silver canopy, which occupied the centre of 
 the lofty structure, sat enthroned the protecting deity, 
 whose form was of solid gold, and whose eves were
 
 THE MAKRIAGE OF THE CAUYEEY. 289 
 
 diamonds of inestimable value. Around his footstool 
 were ranged the chosen servants of the god, scattering 
 baskets of consecrated fruits and flowers on the 
 crowd, who eagerly pressed forward to obtain a 
 portion of the sacred gifts. As onward, in slow and 
 awful grandeur, the mighty frame rolled on ten gi- 
 gantic wheels, young and old, with equal zeal and 
 ardour, flew to the traces, and thousands thus com- 
 bined to draw the wondrous fabric ; while on the 
 housetops and the trees that lined the way myriads of 
 pious spectators, like swarming bees, hailed its ap- 
 proach with shouts of wonder and delight. 
 
 At length the grand procession arrived in sight of 
 the sacred river, on whose broad expanse were gliding 
 innumerable boats of graceful forms, some resembling 
 swans and peacocks, others dolphins, alligators, &c. ; 
 all richly gilt and decorated with variegated colours. 
 These were filled with happy beings, who enlivened 
 the scene with vocal and instrumental music : their 
 brilliant dresses and sparkling jewellery shone forth 
 in the splendor of countless torches, which spread 
 a blaze of light across the stream, whose placid bosom, 
 like a dazzling mirror, threw back the bright reflection 
 to the skies. 
 
 With quickening pace the train who drew the 
 triumphal car of the deity now rushed on frantic with 
 zeal towards the sacred flood ; while deafening shouts 
 of joy resounded along the shore and across the river, 
 
 VOL. I. U
 
 290 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 the surface of which presented one living mass of de- 
 voted worshippers. With unwonted speed the lofty 
 tower was now urged onward, by that resistless 
 miixht with which reli2;ious enthusiasm endues the 
 physical powers of man. The mighty fabric rocked 
 and reeled beneath the almost superhuman impetus, 
 threatening every instant to fall and crush the 
 adoring myriads beneath its ponderous maj?s; until 
 at length its gigantic wheels vf ere embedded in the 
 yielding soil on the margin of the river. 
 
 It was a fair and open space on which the majestic 
 car of the deity now displayed its towering height and 
 richly ornamented outline to the admiring gaze of the 
 countless multitude. Many whose finances were not 
 flourishing, occupied a great portion of the space on 
 foot, restrained within proper limits by the royal and 
 police peons who kept the ground ; but those who 
 could afford to pay for the accommodation were 
 ranged around in galleries erected for the occasion, 
 bedecked in gold and crimson tapestry, and flags and 
 banners of every form and device. There many a 
 young and lovely face was bent in pious ecstacy on ' 
 the golden form of the god, whose diamond eyes 
 shone with supernatural lustre beneath the shadow of 
 his silver canopy ; and many a fair devotee felt her 
 soul expand with heavenly zeal, even to the exclusion 
 of those earthly imaginings which are said, with unri- 
 valled sway, to occupy the female heart.
 
 THE MARRIAGE OF THE CAUVERY. 291 
 
 But peerless above all the assembled beauty of a 
 region pre-eminent in female loveliness, shone the in- 
 comparable Lachema, the royal maid of Mysore. 
 Between her doting parents she sat on a splendid 
 musnud, viewing the animated scene wdth tranquil 
 joy, and smiling wath the secure triumph of une- 
 qualled charms, on the brilliant circle of her royal 
 suitors ; who graced the fairy scene with all the mag- 
 nificence of which their respective treasuries w^ere 
 susceptible. 
 
 Some of these royal gallants w^ere richly attired in 
 golden armour ; their fiery steeds wheeling and cur- 
 vetting in the open space, as if their riders were 
 determined to "witch" the Begum's heart with "noble 
 horsemanship." Some from the lofty howdahs of their 
 well-trained elephants shone forth in all the dazzling 
 attractions of oriental splendor. Others in fancy 
 suits, covered with jewels of inestimable value, 
 fluttered round the musnud of their peerless mistress, 
 vying with each other in high-flown comj^liments, re- 
 dolent of eastern imagery, to her celestial loveliness ; 
 while each, as they revelled in the bliss of her smiles, 
 fancied himself the chosen favourite of the hour, and 
 already grasped in imagination the fair hand of the 
 Begum, and the ardently- coveted sceptre of Mysore. 
 
 There was, however, one amongst the royal 
 cortege whose cloudy brow betokened a heart but ill 
 at ease ; though the manly beauty of his form, the
 
 292 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 richness of his armour, tlie grace of his carriage, and 
 the glory inseparably attached to his name, might 
 challenge the love and admiration of all who beheld 
 him. 
 
 This was the gallant Kistna, who, with the modesty 
 inherent in real merit, still more than doubted the pos- 
 sibility of a successful competition with his royal rivals. 
 Every smile bestowed by Lachema on another went 
 like an arrow to his heart : every mark of approbation 
 evinced by her for the gallantry or magnificence dis- 
 played by those who fancied that her love could only 
 be won by such meretricious homage, shot a chill 
 through his veins, and made him feel like a denizen 
 of that maj:ble city still fabled to exist beneath the 
 waves on the shores of Coromandel. Ardently 
 longing to approach her adored presence, to breathe 
 the same delicious atmosphere, to listen to the music 
 df her voice, to catch, perhaps, a wandering smile ; 
 but fearing, with all the sensibility of true aifection, 
 some chilling repulse, or capricious humiliation before 
 his haughty rivals, he kept aloof from the dangerous 
 scene, brooding in silence over his own bitter thoughts 
 and imaginary misery. 
 
 Nor did Lachema, on her part, suffer less than the 
 lord of her affections, from the false position in which 
 she happened to be placed. To have him by her 
 side, and to listen to his unrivalled powers of conver- 
 sation, would have far outweighed, in her estimation.
 
 THE MARRIAGE OF THE CAUVERY. 293 
 
 the united splendor and magnificence of her other 
 lovers ; but the distance he kept, and his apparently 
 averted looks, perplexed and mortified her. She 
 sought on one or two occasions to catch his eye, and 
 bring him to her side with love's unerring archery ; 
 but this he appeared most studiously to avoid, con- 
 tenting himself with furtive glances, when her looks 
 were averted, or bent upon another, and thereby 
 feeding his morbid melancholy with all the self-tor- 
 menting ingenuity of incipient jealousy. 
 
 Somewhat piqued at this conduct, and influenced 
 in a certain degree by one of the most powerful 
 stimuli of the female heart, the Begum condescended 
 to bestow^ a little more attention than usual on the 
 vapid prattle of the young Rajah of Berar ; casting at 
 the same time a somewhat reproachful look towards 
 the already mortified Kistna. This was enough for 
 the bursting heart of the young warrior ; with an im- 
 patient gesture he dashed the pointed stirrup* into 
 the flanks of his charger, and vanished from the scene 
 with the rapidity of light ; while his sudden disap- 
 pearance caused a revulsion in the feelings of the 
 Fawn-eyed Maid, that effectually chilled all further 
 hope of enjoyment from the festivity of the scene. 
 
 Meanwhile the entertainments of the festival pro- 
 ceeded to the delight of all, who were unconscious of 
 
 * Spurs are not used in the East ; but the stirrup is pointed 
 at the heel, which ansAvers the purpose equally well, 
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 294 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 the little scena we have just described, and with the 
 secrets of which none but the two sensitive creatures 
 concerned were, perhaps, fully acquainted. Ere the 
 nuptial rite that was about to be performed between 
 the god Sri-Runga and his watery bride the Cauvery 
 had commenced, a masque of martial character was 
 performed before the Rajah's throne ; being one of 
 the many interludes laid down in the prc)gramme, 
 revised and aj^proved of by the sage Oodiaver, in his 
 high office of Arbiter elegantiarum of the palace. 
 
 At a given signal two equal parties of warriors, 
 armed with sword and shield, appeared upon the 
 ground ready for a hot encounter. One side repre- 
 sented the followers of that Prophet whose faith was 
 propagated vi et armis, as the shortest method of 
 showing infidels the road to heaven. The other com- 
 prised the children of Brahma ; whose temper, though 
 indolent and pacific in the extreme, may still be 
 wrought up to frenzy in defence of their hearths and 
 altars. Shouting out their respective war cries, the 
 combatants rushed together as if in mortal strife : 
 being chosen for their expertness at sword and buck- 
 ler, the exhibition was admirable in its way, and 
 elicited thunders of applause ; especially when the 
 Sword of Brahma's faith prevailed, and the haughty 
 Moslem was driven discomfited from the field. 
 
 To this succeeded a burlesque dance by male 
 performers, the tallest, the ugliest and the most
 
 THE MARRIAGE OF THE CAUVERY. 295 
 
 ungraceful that could be found. In female habili- 
 ments, and decorated with jingling bells and chains 
 of steel, they presented the most laughable caricature 
 of the lovely and graceful nauchnies ; and skipped and 
 sprawled about in utter contempt of the graces of 
 nature or the rules of art, though in perfect time to 
 the music, which rendered the burlesque of their 
 motions still more glaring and significant. The 
 spectators, convulsed with laughter at the humour of 
 the scene, were in the zenith of enjoyment when 
 suddenly a troop of tigers, lions and other savage 
 monsters rushed through the crowd, yelling, roaring, 
 and scattering on every side the affrighted multitude. 
 
 The screams of terror occasioned by this dreadful 
 irruption were soon, however, succeeded by shouts of 
 merriment ; for the ferocity of the wild animals being 
 merely skin deep their onslaught was only productive 
 of some ungraceful tumbles and strange positions, 
 exceedingly perilous to the nerves of overstrained 
 and sanctimonious delicacy. 
 
 Many little incidents arose out of this popular 
 panic, offering food for fresh laughter; amongst 
 which we may mention that a lovely young Rajpootni 
 maiden of the Beo'um's train was induloins: in an im- 
 moderate fit of laughter, at the undignified overthrow 
 of the sage Oodiaver in the melee, when one amongst 
 a troop of graceful young nobles standing near 
 effectually turned the laugh against her, by letting 
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 296 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 fly one of those beautiful little birds called hayas, 
 trained for the purpose, which, with the rapidity of 
 lightning, snatched the golden tica from her lovely 
 brow, and bore it in triumph to his master. 
 
 "With the delighted feelings of parents enjoying 
 the sports of their children, the royal couple looked 
 on and participated in the unsophisticated pleasures 
 of their happy subjects ; while the gentle Lacheraa, 
 whose benevolent heart took ample share in the 
 enjoyment of others, felt for a time beguiled of her 
 own private cares, and every selfish thought was 
 merged in the general hilarity. As if fate, however, 
 took a pleasure in damping her innocent joy, she had 
 not gazed around for many seconds when the " Evil 
 Eye " w^hich, at a previous festival, had made so deep 
 an impression on her imagination, again met her 
 aching sight, from the midst of a group that was 
 stationed alarmingly near her person. 
 
 With undefinable horror the princess shrank 
 within herself at the ominous intrusion which now 
 began to assume a marked and settled influence on 
 her destiny, beyond the control of her own powerful 
 mind, or the reach of her father's authority. Though 
 an object in itself detestable to look upon, the Evil 
 Eye appeared to possess some wondrous fascination ; 
 for when once seen it maintained its terrible powers 
 of attraction, instilling its poison through the diseased 
 imagination, even to the heart's core of the helpless 
 victim.
 
 THE MAREIAGE OF THE CAUVERY. 297 
 
 A general shout of joy now pealed along the 
 heavens, for the mystic rite of marriage was about to 
 be performed between the god Eunga and the sacred 
 nymph of the Cauvery. A wreath of cusa grass was 
 flung on the calm and glassy bosom of the stream by 
 the officiating Brahmins, a symbol of indissoluble 
 union. The nuptial hymn was then chaunted by the 
 choral troop of the temple, containing highly wrought 
 allusions to the might and majesty of the male divinity, 
 the fecundity of the nymph, and the multiplied 
 blessings which their junction must necessarily shed 
 on their happy votaries. The golden image of the 
 deity was then borne in a litter by four of the most 
 venerable Brahmins a few paces into the stream; 
 where the god received, as it were, the caresses of 
 his bride, and conferred upon her the power of yield- 
 ing fertility and fruitfulness to the nations she would 
 visit in her progress to the ocean. The mystic rite 
 being finally accomplished, the god was borne back 
 in the same order to his triumphal car, and placed 
 upon his throne, amidst the deafening shouts of the 
 multitude. 
 
 Scarcely was the ceremony completed when a 
 haggard wretch, bedecked with wreaths of lotus 
 flowers, rushed from amidst the crowd, with a 
 piercing cry, and with fearful speed bounded in 
 mystic dance round the triumphal car of the god. 
 Awestruck, the people made way for his frenzied
 
 298 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 evolutions, aware of his being one of those self-devoted 
 victims who frequently commit traga, or suicide, by 
 drowning themselves in holy rivers ; the motives by 
 which they are actuated being a belief that they will 
 be re-born Kajahs in their next state of transmigration. 
 
 With every faculty absorbed in the greatness of 
 the sacrifice he was about to offer, the doomed devotee 
 continued to wheel in circles round the car of the god, 
 yelling in frenzied accents ; while groans of pity burst 
 from the spectators, who would, hoAvever, have re- 
 garded any interference with his intention as a down- 
 right insult to the deity. One moment he seemed to 
 awake from his trance, and stopping suddenly in his 
 career before the royal gallery, he threw his arms 
 wildly over his head, and exclaimed in thrilling ac- 
 cents, as if thus, on the verge of death, imbued with 
 prophetic power — 
 
 '' Princess ! beware of treachery ! " 
 
 A general amazement seized on the spectators at 
 this dreadful warning ; for the voice, shrill, clear, and 
 distinct, penetrated to the remotest boundary of the 
 vast multitude. But ere a question could be asked 
 as to the terrible import of the words, the self-doomed 
 enthusiast again with rapid bound flew in mazy circles 
 round the car of the god, seeming to gain at every 
 turn a fresh increase of fiery zeal. As in the midst 
 of his wild career he drew nigh to the royal party, 
 again he stopped and raised the warning cry —
 
 THE MARRIAGE OF THE CAUVERY. 299 
 
 " Lachema Bauee ! Beware of the Evil Eye ! " 
 Once more round the sacred vehicle of the god he 
 flew with unabated power, circling and wheeling with 
 a rapidity that made the spectators dizzy to look 
 upon ; and once more the warning cry broke on the 
 awful stillness of the scene — 
 
 *' Fawn- eyed Maid ! Beware the giozing tongue ! " 
 Then, as if his earthy mission was accomplished, 
 and nothino; else remained for him to do on this side 
 of eternity, he rushed with the speed of light, and 
 with a headlong dash plunged into the sacred stream, 
 whose angry waves sparkled for a moment, then closed 
 above his head for ever.
 
 300 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 CHAP. XXIIL 
 
 THE SENTINEL. 
 
 The music and the mirtli had ceased; the noisy 
 revehy and exultation of the multitude were lulled to 
 repose; the festive lights that gleamed on high, the 
 artificial fires that blazed across the heavens, were all 
 extinguished, and the late scene of tumultuous merri- 
 ment was dreary and silent as the grave. 
 
 Before the front of the Kajah's palace a sentinel 
 was pacing his solitary round, all other living things 
 having retired to rest. With his matchlock thrown 
 carelessly over his shoulder, he Avas humming an air 
 of his far distant land ; for his dress and arms denoted 
 him to be one of those forei2:n mercenaries who were 
 then, as at joresent, frequently taken into the service 
 of the native princes of Hindoostan. On a sudden 
 he ceased his music, and bringing his m atchlock to a 
 poise, he challenged a party that had just emerged 
 from one of the winding alleys of the garden, and 
 were apparently endeavouring to gain the rear of the 
 palace unobserved. 
 
 The party thus challenged, consisting of only two
 
 THE SENTINEL. 301 
 
 individuals, finding discovery inevitable, approached 
 the sentinel, without any show of apprehension : nor 
 was there aught in their appearance of a menacing 
 nature ; then- festive attire indicating any thing but 
 treason against the state, while a single lute borne 
 by one was the only instrument of any description 
 they appeared to possess. 
 
 One of the two intruders, a little, shrivelled old 
 man, now advanced with a galllard step and an 
 apparent knowledge of his ground ; and, with the 
 air of one who knew he was well supported, desired 
 the sentinel to retire to the other end of the palace, 
 he and his companion being directed to offer a serenade 
 to the Begum, from a grove adjacent to her Hlghness's 
 apartments. 
 
 Bahauder Hafiz, however, for he was the sentinel, 
 bringing his matchlock to bear on the venerable sere- 
 nader, exclaimed in a threatening tone — 
 
 "Begone with a vengeance, idle vagabonds that 
 ye are ! or, by my father's soul, I'll send you packing 
 to Eblees, for presuming to disturb the slumbers of 
 her Highness." 
 
 At this the ci-devant jeinie liomme, who appeared 
 to be so unseasonably playing the gallant, invoked 
 the sturdy Afghaun in soothing accents, though his 
 teeth chattered wofully in the midnight air ; and 
 besought his patience while he saluted the ears of 
 the Princess with a hymn to the season, composed in
 
 302 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 her especial honor by his companion, ^Mootee-al- 
 Gulistaun, or the Pearl of the Rose Garden : who, 
 besides being a most delectable performer on the 
 lute, was a lineal descendant of the immortal Jya- 
 deva, by a daughter of the renowned Hafiz of 
 Shirauz, from whom he derived his Persian patro- 
 nymic. 
 
 "No," cried the truculent Afghaun. "Were he 
 even the Bulhul i hazar dustan *, he should not pass 
 here. By the honour of my five wives ! old man, it 
 is a scandal to your grey hairs to play these unseemly 
 pranks, at an hour when your aguish limbs should 
 be wrapped up in sheep-skins, and safely deposited 
 in the cradle of your second childhood." 
 
 " Jey Ganesa!^^ rejoined the venerable serenader; 
 ^^ now that I look at thee more narrowly, methinks 
 we are old acquaintances; and, if I mistake not, I 
 am indebted to thee for sundry degradations which, 
 to my sorrow, I suffered at the hands of that arch- 
 infidel Kempc Goud " 
 
 " Yah Hyder ! Yah Allee!'^ cried the Afghaun, 
 who had also now recognised the venerable of years 
 and wise in council, the sage Oodiaver ; " on that 
 score we may cry quits ; for, by my mother's honor ! 
 the memory of my elevation to the summit of yon 
 cocoa-nut tree will never be obliterated from my 
 
 * The iilsrhtinefale of a tliousaud tales.
 
 THE SENTINEL. 303 
 
 brain, which even now spins round giddily at the 
 recollection. By the holy Prophet ! 'twas enough to 
 throw my heart upside down, and drag my liver 
 through my nostrils." 
 
 " And for my part," said the Brahmin, " many a 
 malediction have I given thee for the wicked sug- 
 gestions with which thou didst inspire the soul of 
 that Pariah to soil the purity of my Caste." 
 
 " Hah ! hah ! hah ! " roared the Afghaun, " it 
 was glorious sport to see your sagacity seated on 
 your pigskin musnud." 
 
 " Horrible recollection ! " exclaimed the ci-devant 
 Vakeel. " Ages of penance cannot wash the stain 
 from my memory." 
 
 "Stain, indeed!" cried the Afghaun. " MashaU 
 lah! you swallowed the savoury coUops of the wild 
 hog with all the relish of an arrant forester." 
 
 " Bapre! Bapre! that I utterly deny," exclaimed 
 the Brahmin, whose wrath was excited by the gross 
 imputation. "Against my will did I swallow the 
 horrible mess, and bitterly have I paid for the defile- 
 ment." 
 
 " And then," continued the tormentor, "to see 
 the sobriety of the judge disappear under the in- 
 fluence of the sparkling Sendi." 
 
 "Mention it not, for the sake of Vishnu," ex- 
 claimed the Brahmin, wincing under the sarcasms 
 of the Afghaun ; " the sin was involuntary."
 
 304 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 " By the holy Caaba ! " exclaimed Bahauder Hafiz, 
 " I sa^y you smack your lips with pleasure." 
 
 " False ! false 1" responded the Brahmin. " Wicked 
 inventions ! wicked inventions !" 
 
 "And you called for another horn of liquor," 
 continued the Afghaun, "like a jovial soul as you 
 are." 
 
 " Lies ! lies ! nothing but lies ! " cried the Brahmin, 
 grinding his teeth with vexation. 
 
 " And you swaggered in your cups, like a mounte- 
 bank," continued the ruthless Hafiz. 
 
 " I^othing but the dictates of dignity and wisdom 
 fell from my lips," replied the Brahmin, "though 
 unwittingly they imbibed the poison of abomi- 
 nation." 
 
 " Mashallah ! Mashallah ! whose dog was Aflatoon, 
 compared to you, for a Pundit? " resumed the 
 mocking Afghaun. " It was very wise and dignified 
 to be sure, to see you strapped on the back of an ass 
 like a bas; of onions." 
 
 " Nay, nay, good soldier," cried the Brahmin in a 
 deprecating voice, mortified that all his humiliation 
 should thus be exposed to his companion, who seemed 
 highly amused at the dialogue, "that must be a 
 mistake, indeed it must. I did not surel}^ undergo 
 that utter defilement. " * 
 
 * In India the ass cannot be even touched without defile- 
 ment.
 
 THE SENTINEL. 305 
 
 " There was no mistake, however," said the Af- 
 ghaim in a tone of bitterness, " in m j elevation to 
 the top of the cocoa-nut tree, or in the merciless 
 flogging I got by your drunken folly. But I could 
 have told his Highness the Rajah, when he gave you 
 charge of that enterprize, that he was placing an 
 elephant's load on the back of an ass." 
 
 " By your own drunken folly, you mean," retorted 
 the Brahmin, determined now to turn the tables on 
 his merciless tormentor ; " for the loss of the golden 
 moorut and the disgrace of the Mysorean arms are 
 solely to be ascribed to your brutal drunkenness on 
 that fatal day." 
 
 " By the honor of my five wives ! " tartly replied 
 Hafiz, " I was no more drunk on that day than you 
 were." 
 
 " Saucy varlet ! " responded the Brahmin ; " if there 
 be no more truth in thy wives than in thy words, I 
 would not give a cocoa-nut for thine honor." 
 
 " By the soul of my grandmother ! " exclaimed the 
 Afghaun, " if any other than your Junah had said as 
 much I'd make a kabob of his gizzard." 
 
 " That's the way you boasted to your drunken 
 companions," persisted the Brahmin ; " but when 
 matters came to a push you didn't fire a single match- 
 lock for the honor of Mysore." 
 
 "In the name of the Prophet, how could we?" 
 demanded Hafiz, " seeing they were all stolen from 
 
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 306 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 US by tliose scoundrelly Bheels : may their fathers' 
 graves be defiled ! " 
 
 " Pretty soldiers you are, forsooth ! " cried the 
 Brahmin, quite pleased at thus carrying the war into 
 the enemy's country. "Pretty soldiers to suffer 
 your arms to be stolen from you in your cups." 
 
 " The bravest men," said Hafiz, " are not proof 
 against the spells of enchantment ; and if we had not 
 been fairly bewitched by that one-eyed devil, by the 
 sacred Caaba ! " 
 
 " Swear not by that unholy stye of abomination," 
 remonstrated the Brahmin ; " nothing good can come 
 of such an oath." 
 
 ^^ Penah-he-khodah ! do you dare to abuse the 
 temple of the Prophet and the house of Abraham ? " 
 cried the Afghaun rather ferociously, bringing his 
 matchlock to bear on the body of his adversary. 
 " He is a dog's father and an unsainted ass who dares 
 to speak ill of that sacred place ; where the mortal 
 remains of our divine leader, the Sealed Intercessor 
 and chief of created beings, hang miraculously sus- 
 pended between earth and heaven." 
 
 " That's all an Arabian tale about your pretended 
 Prophet," said the Brahmin. 
 
 " Pretended Prophet ! " cried the Afghaun. " Is it 
 thus you presume to speak of the divine Mahommed, 
 who was created directly after the Angel Gabriel, 
 and took so much time and thought, that God rested
 
 THE SENTINEL. 307 
 
 for 300 years without making anything further? 
 And you dare to utter such impiety before Bahauder 
 Hafizj who is, Inshallah ! an eater of men's hearts : a 
 tiger before whom men's Hvers turn to water ! " 
 
 " Jey Ganesa ! " exclaimed the Brahmin, ^' this 
 exuberant zeal comes well from such a profane drinker 
 and swearer as thou art." 
 
 " Don't belie me, on your peril," cried Hafiz. 
 " Am I not a Syud * in right of my wife, who is 
 descended in an oblique line from the holy Fatimxa ? 
 Moreover, I'm a Peerzada |, son of Zemaun ul Hak 
 Jemali of Cabool ; and not only a Peerzada, but 
 almost a Hajji." 
 
 " How almost a Hajji ? " demanded the Brahmin's 
 companion, apparently amused at this list of sacred 
 adjuncts. 
 
 " Because," replied Hafiz, " I w^as nearly making 
 the pilgrimage to Mecca, but the sheitaun of a 
 Caiifila Basld rejected my company; and may he 
 enjoy an eternal grilling for the same!" 
 
 "On what grounds did he decline the honor of 
 your company?" demanded the Brahmin. 
 
 " The imp of Jehanum said I was a wine-bibber," 
 replied Hafiz ; " when all the world knew that just 
 
 * The Syuds, or direct descendants of ]Mahommed, arc held 
 in high esteem in tlie East, 
 t Son of a Peer, or Saint. 
 
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 308 SAVIXDROOG. 
 
 then, being about to conform rigidly to the doctrines 
 of the Holy Book, my drinking was exclusively 
 confined to r«^ee."* 
 
 " Well, well," said the sage Oodiaver, in a wheed- 
 lins: voice, thinkino; he had wrous^ht the sentinel 
 into a complaisant mood, " let us make up matters 
 amicably, good Hafiz. I heartily forgive you for 
 your past misdeeds ; and you, in gratitude, are bound 
 io afford free passage to me and my companion." 
 
 " To lihodahV^ cried the Afghaun, with a sneer, 
 ^' by what figures do you reckon if you think to 
 cajole Bahauder Hafiz? You may be a fox, it is 
 true, but I am the father of foxes ; and pass here 
 you shall not, at least without a hole in your skin." 
 
 ^' Come, come, worthy soldier," said the Brahmin, 
 " do me this little service, and I'll return the com- 
 pliment in some way or other." 
 
 " BariMllah ! May your favour increase ! " ex- 
 claimed the Afghaun ironically : " my horoscope is 
 now at last in a fortunate chamber of the stars ! " 
 
 " Rely upon it," said the Pundit, " I'll remember 
 you handsomely for your compliance." 
 
 " To Jehanum with your remembrances ! " cried 
 the Afghaun gruffly. " By the honor of my five 
 wives they have cost me more than enough already !" 
 
 * Some subtle casuists argue themselves into a right to drink 
 spirits, on the plea that wine is the liquor expressly forbidden 
 by the Koran.
 
 THE SENTINEL. 309 
 
 " But how is this, Sir Mussulmaun?" exclaimed the 
 Brahmin's companion in a tone of raillery : " I thought 
 your religion lunited you to four wives, and yet you 
 swear by five ! " 
 
 " Right certainly I do," responded Hafiz, " and 
 with reason. Sir Vishnuvite ; for though The Book, 
 resplendent be its shadow ! doth in a manner limit 
 ordinary individuals to four wives, an especial allow- 
 ance is made to persons of superior sanctity like 
 myself." 
 
 " Superior sanctity like yourself!" exclaimed the 
 stranger. 
 
 " Penah-he-khodah!'^ cried Hafiz, " you seem to 
 doubt my title. Sir Brahmin ; or whatever else, in 
 the name of Eblees, you may call yourself. But 
 though I am no MooUah, nor Peer, nor yet quite a 
 Hajji, and only a Syud in right of my Y\dfe, I am 
 a true and zealous soldier of the Prophet, whose name 
 be ever blessed ! and have slain more Pao-ans sino-le- 
 handed in honor of God and defence of our holy 
 religion than any ten Mussulmauns of my acquaint- 
 ance." 
 
 " And that gives you a patent," observed the 
 stranger drily, " to commit matrimony or any thing 
 else you please, ad libitum^''' 
 
 " To be sure it does," replied Hafiz ; '' and my 
 right is as incontestable as that of the holy Dervish 
 X 3
 
 310 SAVINDEOOG. 
 
 SoofFee Islam, who was so free from the common 
 prejudices of the vulgar that he married no fewer 
 than eighteen wives : not to mention the example of 
 our Holy Prophet who (blessings on his beard !) had 
 wives and women slaves more than Suleimaun ibn 
 Daood himself." 
 
 " Nothing can be clearer," observed the Brahmin, 
 '^ and my friend, I am sure, must now be quite 
 satisfied." 
 
 " You may be satisfied with me," responded the 
 Afghaun, " but, by the holy Caaba, that's more than 
 I am with you. As for that strapping companion 
 of yours that you have told me such an Arabian tale 
 about, he looks more likely to handle a lance or a 
 scimitar to some purpose than a lute : therefore, with 
 your leave, I'll examine the brawny Pearl of the 
 Rose Garden a little more narrowly. He may be 
 Kustum or Ramchunder himself, for any thing I 
 know to the contrary." 
 
 Suiting the action to the word, the Afghaun was 
 about to seize the lutanist by the collar, when a gleam 
 of moonlight illumined the features of the latter, 
 which caused a sudden revolution in the frame of 
 Bahauder Hafiz. Recoiling a few paces in astonish- 
 ment, he placed his matchlock on the ground, and 
 bending his body, raised the palms of his hands to 
 his forehead in mute and humble salutation. 
 
 The lutanist smiled and passed on, first flinging a
 
 THE SEXTINEL. 311 
 
 well-filled purse at the feet of the astonished Afghaun ; 
 and the sage Oodiaver, as he followed his companion, 
 also smiled sarcastically at his quondam fellow 
 prisoner, recommending him in a tone of irony to 
 be more careful in future of the taree pot. 
 
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 312 SAVINDKOOG. 
 
 CHAP. XXIV. 
 
 THE SERENADE. 
 
 It was the witching time of night, and the Begum, 
 in her maiden bower, oppressed with many an 
 anxious thought, was reviewing the troubles of her 
 breast; while the assiduous Curreena unbound her 
 beautiful tresses, and laid by her festal ornaments 
 in their respective caskets; all but the turquoise 
 necklace which the Fawn-eyed Maid constantly wore, 
 to o^uard her a2:ainst the machinations of the ^' Evil 
 Eye," now more than ever an object of horror to her 
 imagination. 
 
 A silent shower had fallen on the peaceful scene 
 around ; cooling the sultry air, and imparting a 
 delightful freshness to the mingled perfume of myr- 
 tle, jasmine and other odoriferous shrubs with which 
 the garden was beautifully diversified : while a 
 gentle zephyr occasionally swept over the calm ex- 
 panse of the river, laden with the ripple of its tiny 
 waves. The moon stru2:2;lino; through some scat- 
 tered clouds, was shining with uncertain gleams ; 
 and the silvery tinkling of some distant fountains
 
 THE SEKENADE. 313 
 
 rose softly on the ear, as if the viewless minstrels of 
 the sky had hung their harps abroad to woo the 
 midnight breeze. 
 
 In pensive mood the Fawn-eyed Maid leaned 
 against one of the marble pillars of the verandah, richly 
 screened with clustering creepers; and while her 
 inferior attendants slumbered at some little distance, 
 unconscious that one so richly endowed with the 
 charms of nature and the goods of fortune, could 
 have aught to banish sleep from her weary eyelids, 
 she thus expressed her anxious thoughts to her prime 
 confidante and favourite : — 
 
 " My fate, Curreena, resembles yonder moon, 
 oppressed with dim and shadowy fears, forerunners, 
 alas ! of some darker destiny which seems to lead me 
 to the tomb." 
 
 " Gracious princess," said the Cashmerian, " after 
 the splendor of the festival, and the universal ho- 
 mage that has been justly rendered to you, I see 
 no possible cause for indulging in so gloomy a 
 reflection." 
 
 " Alas ! " said the Begum, " I cannot shake off the 
 dark foreboding that Aveighs down my restless spirits. 
 Again have I seen that Monster's Evil Eye who 
 haunts me with unrelenting and remorseless cruelty ! 
 And thrice this niMit a self-doomed wretch on the 
 verge of eternity, when, it is said, the mental vision
 
 314 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 can penetrate the misty future, has given me dread- 
 ful warning of some hidden treachery." 
 
 *' Nay, nay," cried the alarmed deceiver, *' think 
 not of treachery in the midst of anxious friends and 
 adoring lovers. The ravings of a crazy suicide are 
 unworthy of a moment's thought." 
 
 " I view the matter in a different light," said the 
 Begum, "and cannot help thinking that I see in 
 this the finger of an ever-watchful Providence. My 
 guardian goddess has surely sent these fearful indi- 
 cations of some future woe to lead me from the fatal 
 snare, or to imbue my soul with firmness to meet the 
 stroke of Fate. But how to shun the fatal snare, or 
 avert the threatened evil, is all a fearful mystery to 
 me." 
 
 " Now I," said the Cashmerian with an arch 
 smile, " know a sure and certain remedy for all these 
 gloomy thoughts and chill forebodings." 
 
 " In the name of Vishnu," exclaimed the Begum 
 eagerly ; " if you are acquainted with any occult 
 charm to dispel melancholy, — for your knowledge, 
 Curreena, often surprises me, — impart it to me at 
 once, I entreat you, by your allegiance and your 
 love." 
 
 *^ Eight gladly will I do so," replied the wily 
 confidante. " The means are certain and within 
 your reach; but your Highness must promise to 
 follow my prescription."
 
 THE SERENADE. 315 
 
 " With pleasure," cried the unsuspecting Lachema ; 
 *^ most learned physician, you will find in me a docile 
 and a confiding patient." 
 
 " Then my infallible remedy is this," said the 
 smiling attendant. " Let all your suitors be as- 
 sembled in grand divan. Your Highness must then 
 take a certain o-arland in vour fair hand, and flino- it 
 on the neck of him you love." 
 
 " Pshaw ! " exclaimed the Begum, half pleased, 
 half vexed, " is this your boasted recipe ? " 
 
 '^ There cannot be a more efiectual cure," replied 
 the Cashmerian, "for the vapours, with which 
 malady your Highness is at present afflicted." 
 
 " But in getting rid of the vapours," observed the 
 Begum, " suppose I should catch the horrors, Cur- 
 reena." 
 
 " Of that," replied Curreena, " I have no dread, 
 provided you follow my prescription to the letter, 
 and bestow the garland on the renowned Kistna 
 Bahauder." 
 
 " Mention him not," cried the Begum, while a 
 frown struggled to usurp for a moment her lovely 
 brow : " he is a surly soldier that thinks of nothing 
 but the battle field." 
 
 "But still he is a gallant soldier," responded 
 Curreena, " that far outshines all the rest of your 
 admirers." 
 
 " There I differ with you," said the Begum
 
 316 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 abruptly : " others, in my opinion, possess superior 
 merit." 
 
 " Will your Highness deign to inform me," said 
 Curreena, " which of the royal suitors can cope with 
 the noble Rajapoot ? " 
 
 " Several of them — all of them," replied the 
 Begum, with a blush that contradicted the asser- 
 tion." 
 
 " Name one," said Curreena ; " one will suffice to 
 effect your Highness's cure." 
 
 " Of what avail is it to name any," replied the 
 Begum, " seeing that I have made a vow" against an 
 exhibition which, however consecrated by custom, is 
 repugnant to my feelings and delicacy ? " 
 
 "I crave your Highness's pardon," said the 
 Cashmerian with an arch smile : "I was not aware 
 of your vow, but I hope it is not yet registered in 
 heaven." 
 
 " Registered or not," said the Begum, " I have 
 this very night resolved never to comply with so 
 absurd a custom." 
 
 '^ But your Highness has evaded my question," 
 said Curreena. " I knew you could not name one 
 who was fit to cope with the noble Kistna." 
 
 " In my opinion," said the Begum pettishly, " the 
 Kajapoot is totally eclipsed by the Peishwah of the 
 Mahi-attas." 
 
 " Oh, true," replied Curreena, smiling at the com-
 
 THE SERENADE. 317 
 
 parison, for the Peishwah was the most ill-favoured 
 of all the royal suitors ; " the gallant Mahratta is, 
 by many degrees, a handsomer man than Kistna 
 Sahib." 
 
 " Indeed ! " exclaimed the Begum, with a start of 
 surprise. 
 
 ^^ Certainly," said the Cashmerian ; " more graceful 
 in his person, and more elegant in his manners — " 
 
 " How ! " cried the indignant Lachema. 
 
 "More brilliant in his conversation," continued 
 
 Curreena ; " more noble in his bearing more 
 
 daring in his courage more generous in his 
 
 nature " 
 
 " Enough, enough ! " exclaimed the Begum, rising 
 with unwonted dignity and hauteur. " You may 
 retire, Curreena; I dispense with your further 
 attendance." 
 
 The subtle Cashmerian accordingly made her 
 obeisance and retired ; smiling inwardly at the adroit 
 manner in which she thus played on the sensitive 
 mind of her royal mistress ; for her generous and 
 unsuspecting nature laid her entirely open to the 
 designs of one whose wisdom was cunning, and whose 
 inventive faculty was always the ready minister of a 
 depraved and callous heart. 
 
 Left^ to herself, the Begum indulged without 
 restraint the melancholy inspired by the apparent and 
 chilling indifference of Kistna ; and was more than 
 
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 318 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 ever confirmed in her resolution to decline the public 
 choice of a lord and master, unless some unhoped-for 
 change took place in his sentiments. Leaning in a 
 sombre mood against one of the pillars of the verandah, 
 she mentally exclaimed : — • 
 
 " Alas ! yes ; Curreena was right : the choice of 
 him I love, were that love reciprocal, would be, 
 indeed, an eifectual cure for my melancholy; but 
 herein lies the insurmountable difficulty. Did he'," 
 and here the maiden heaved a heavy sigh, " did he 
 who ought to seek me for his bride partake the 
 wasting flame that now usurps my soul, and bow to 
 love instead of that frightful passion called military 
 glory, how gaily would I chase the gloomy fears that 
 now prey upon my peace. His conduct this night 
 has been mysterious and perplexing; for though he 
 seemed to shun my presence, yet, when provoked by 
 his indifference I affected to smile on all but him, 
 methought it stung his noble heart to the quick. 
 
 Oh, Cama ! bend his stubborn soul, or else " 
 
 . Thus far the pious princess had proceeded in her 
 prayer to the capricious deity, when a mournful 
 strain of music stole upon her ear; but whether it 
 derived its birth from saint in heaven or man below, 
 the startled maiden could not imagine, so sweet yet 
 transient was the swell. In mute astonishment she 
 held her breath ; fearful, if it came again, to lose 
 even a portion of the sound that seemed so unlike
 
 THE SEEENADE. 319 
 
 any thing she had ever heard : nor was she held long 
 in suspense ; for again the melody rose npon the 
 midnight air, from amidst a grove of amra trees that 
 grew on the sloping margin of the Cauvery, a trifling 
 distance from where she stood. 
 
 The Be2:um at first imac^ined that it was the music 
 of some boatmen gliding down the stream, who thus 
 whiled away the tedious watch of night ; but a more 
 lengthened measure led her to a very different 
 conclusion. The sound was that of a veena; but 
 the touch was so light, the strain so exquisite that, 
 in her opinion, one hand alone throughout the broad 
 territories of her sire could produce any thing like it : 
 nor was there more than one, she felt assured, through 
 all the land, that could sino; those lovino; words so 
 well which now, in light and lively tone, fell thus 
 sweetly on her delighted ear : — 
 
 While the sun in the bright azure firmament glowing, 
 O'er hill and o'er valley his splendor shall pour, 
 
 Every joy and delight upon mortals bestowing, 
 So long shall I love thee, sweet Fawn of Mysore. 
 
 So long as the moon o'er the mountain appearing 
 The brightness and beauty of day shall restore, 
 
 With its silvery radiance the night sweetly cheering, 
 Thee alone shall I love, gentle Fawn of Mysore.
 
 320 SAVINDROOG. 
 
 Like the madhavi's tendrils the mango embracing, 
 Thy beauties entwine round my heart's inmost core ; 
 
 Like the first blush of day night's obscurity chasing, 
 Thy smile cheers my anguish, bright Fawn of Mysore. 
 
 Surprise and joy ecstatic played round tlie features and 
 illumined the heart of the Begum, when thus melo- 
 dious, soft and expressive the voice and lute of the 
 noble Kistna resounded on her wondering ear. Mute 
 and motionless she stood, gazing intensely forward, 
 as if to penetrate the shadowy obscurity of the grove 
 and trace the manly outline of her lover's form. She 
 looked, however, in vain: no object whatever met 
 her aching sight in the deepening gloom ; and, with 
 a feeling of something like disappointment, she was 
 about to retire, when the magic tones of the veena 
 again swelled on the air, and fixed her to the spot. 
 
 As the former strain of the unseen musician was 
 of a lively and cheerful character, that which now 
 met the ear of the Begum was exquisitely plaintive, 
 and indicated more the feeling of a broken and de- 
 spairing heart than of one that was prosperous in its 
 wooing. The words were extremely well adapted to 
 the sorrowing style of the accompaniment, but it is 
 difficult to say whether they gave more pain or 
 pleasure to the delighted listener : —
 
 THE SERENADE. 
 
 Farewell ! the rose of life is faded, 
 ' Cold disdain has chill'd its bloom ; 
 Farewell ! the star of hope is shaded, 
 
 Lost, alas ! in cheerless gloom. 
 When first I felt its rosy ray, 
 
 I little thought from thee to sever ; 
 I little thought I now should say 
 
 Farewell ! my only love, for ever I 
 
 n. 
 
 Farewell, sweet Fawn ! though hope is dead, 
 
 And fate is frowning drear and chill ; 
 Though every joy on earth is fled, 
 
 My ruin'd heart is with thee still. 
 Ah! thus the axe may rend the tree. 
 
 And strew its scatter'd fragments round. 
 The faithful ivy still, like me, 
 
 But closer clings at every wound. 
 
 Farewell ! when with the giddy crowd 
 
 I sink, in wandering error lost. 
 Or when the storm howls fierce and loud 
 
 Upon the foaming billow tost. 
 Thy memory still will keep me free 
 
 From other chains where'er I rove ; 
 My heart will proudly bleed for thee, 
 
 For thee, my first, my only love ! 
 
 VOL. L Y 
 
 321
 
 .322 SAVINDROOG, 
 
 Farewell ! the light of love's young dream 
 
 From thy bright eyes warm glances stole, 
 From them too came the frozen beam 
 
 That chill'd the rapture of my soul. 
 But still my prayer, when I depart, 
 
 Shall be, may'st thou experience never 
 The anguish of the bleeding heart 
 
 That bids thee now farewell for ever ! 
 
 ^^ He loves ! he loves ! " cried the Begum with un- 
 restrained delight ; " the traitor loves at last ! Fallen 
 is the warrior's pride, and lowered to the dust is the 
 hero's brow. Fierce Cartikeia yields before the god 
 who bends the bow of sugar-cane, and cruel doubt 
 and grief no more shall chill my heart. Cama, son 
 of Maya, accept my thanks ! Thou hast heard my 
 prayer — thou hast bent the stubborn heart of the 
 warrior. Daily shall thine altar be dressed with 
 fruits and flowers, the offering of thy grateful votary, 
 j)nd Kistna alone shall wear the garland of my love." 
 
 END OF THE FIRST VOLL^IE, 
 
 London : 
 
 Spottkswoode and Shaw, 
 
 New-street- Square.
 
 October, 184:7. 
 
 NEW WORKS 
 
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 CLASSIFIED INDEX. 
 
 AGRICULTURE & RURAL AFFAIRS. 
 
 Pages 
 
 6 
 
 - 9 
 
 Bayldon on Valuing Rents, etc 
 
 Crocker's Land Surveying 
 
 Davy's Agricultural Chemistry - - 9 
 
 Johnson's Farmer's Encyclopaedia • - 16 
 
 Loudon's Encvclopsedia of Agriculture - 18 
 
 ,, Self-Instruction for Farmers, etc. 18 
 
 ,, (Mrs.)Lady'sCountryCorapanion 18 
 
 Low's Breeds of the Domesticated Animals 19 
 
 ,, Elements of Agriculture - - 19 
 
 ,, On Landed Property - - - 18 
 
 ,; On the Domesticated Animals • 19 
 
 Parncll on Roads ----- 2.3 
 
 Thomson on Fattening Cattle, etc.- - 30 
 
 Tophara's Agricultural Chemistry - 30 
 
 Whitley's Agricultural GeologT,- - - 32 
 
 ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND 
 ARCHITECTURE. 
 
 Brando's Dictionarv of Science, etr. - 6 
 
 Buckler's St. Alban's Abbey - - - 7 
 
 Budge's Miner's Guide - -, • - 7 
 
 Cartoons (The Prize) . . • - 7 
 
 Cresv's Encycl. of Civil Engineering 
 De Burtin on the Knowledge of Pictures 
 
 Dresden Gallery - - . - - 
 
 Eastlake on Oil Painting _ - ■ 
 
 Evans's Sugar Planter's Manual 
 Gwilt's Encyclopfcdia of A— "-=' — ' — 
 
 iitecture 
 Havdon's Lectures on Painting & Design 
 Holland's Manufactures in Metal 
 Loudon's Rural Architecture - - - 
 Mnseley's Engineering and Architecture 
 Parnell on Roads - . - - . 
 Porter's Manufacture of Silk . . • 
 ,, ,, Porcelain & Glass 
 
 Reiil (Dr.) on Warming and Ventilating 
 Siblev and Rutherford's Earthwork Tables 
 Steam Engine (The) , by the Artisan Club 
 tire's Dictionary of Arts, etc. 
 Wilkinson's Engines of War . - - 
 Wood on Railroads ----- 
 
 BIOGRAPHY. 
 
 Aikin's Life of Addison . . - - 
 Andersen's (H. C.) .Autobiography 
 Bell's Lives of the liritish Poets 
 Dover's Life of the Kii'g of Prussia - 
 Dunham's Early Writers of Britain 
 
 ,, Lives ofthp British Drnniatists 
 
 Forster's Statesmen of the Commonwealth 
 
 LifeofJebb - . . . 
 
 Gleig's British Military Commanders 
 
 • 12 
 Grant (Mrs.) Memoir and Correspondence 12 
 
 13 
 
 15 
 15 
 21 
 17 
 19 
 21 
 
 Haydon's .Autobiography and Journals 
 James's Lifeof the Black Prince 
 
 ,, Eminent Foreign Statesmen 
 Lil's (M.) Life of Dost Mohammed - 
 Leslie's Life of Constable 
 Mackintosh's Life of Sir T. More 
 Maunder's Biographical Treasury - 
 Roscoc's Lives of Eminent British I.awjrers 26 
 Russell's Bedford Correspondence - 6 
 
 Pages 
 
 - 26 
 
 - 27 
 
 - •:il 
 
 • 28 
 
 Schopenhauer's Youthful Life 
 Shelley's Literary Men of Italy, etc. 
 
 ,, Eminent French Writers 
 Southey's Lives of the British Admirals 
 
 „ Life of Wesley - - - - 28 
 Townsend's Twelve eminent Judges - 30 
 Waterton's Autobiography and Essays • 31 
 
 BOOKS OF GENERAL UTILITY. 
 
 Acton's (Eliza) Cookery Book • • 5 
 
 Black's Treatise on Brewing . . - 6 
 Collegian's Guide . - ... 8 
 Donovan's Domestic Economy . -10 
 
 Hand-Book of Taste - - - . 13 
 
 Hints on Etiquette 13 
 
 Hudson's Parent's Hand-Book . -15 
 
 ,, Executor's Guide - - -15 
 
 ,, On Making Wills - - - 15 
 
 Hume's .A count of Learned Societies etc. 15 
 
 Loudon's Self Instruction - - - 18 
 
 „ (Mrs.) Amateur Gardener - IS 
 
 Maunder's Treasury of Knowledge - - 20 
 
 ,, Scientific and Literary Treasury 20 
 
 ,, Treasury of History - - 21 
 
 , , Biographical Treasury - - 21 
 
 „ Natural History - " • - 21 
 
 Parkes's Domestic Duties - . - 23 
 
 Pycroft'.s Course of English Reading • 24 
 
 Reader's Time Tables . - - - 25 
 
 Rich's Companion to the Latin Dictionary 25 
 
 Riddle's Eng.-Lat. and Lat.-Eng. Diet. - 25 
 
 Robinson's Art of Curing, Pickling, etc. 25 
 
 Rowton's Debater - - - - - 26 
 
 Short Wilis t 27 
 
 Thomson's Management of Sick Room - 30 
 ,, Interest Tables - • -30 
 
 Tomlins' Law Dictionarv - - - . 30 
 Walker's Dictionary, by Smart - - 31 
 Webster's Enrycl. of Domestic Kconomy .'(1 
 Zumpt's Latin Grammar - - - .32 
 
 BOTANY AND GARDENING. 
 
 Abercrombie's Practical Gardener - 
 ,, and Main's Gardener 
 
 Callcott's Scripture Herbal 
 
 Conversations on Botany 
 
 Drummond's First Steps to Botany - 
 
 Evans's Sugar Planter's Manual 
 
 Henslow's Botany . - . . 
 
 Hoare On the Grape Vine on Open Walls 
 ,, On the Roots of Vines . 
 
 Hooker's British Flora ... 
 ,, Guide to Kew Gardens 
 
 Lindley's Theory of Horticulture - 
 ,, Orchard and Kitchen Garden 
 ,, Introduction to Botany - 
 ,, Flora Medica - - . 
 ,, Synopsis of British Flora . 
 
 Loudon's Hortug Britaiinicus - 
 
 ,, Hortus Lignosus Londinensis 
 ,, EncyclopiediaofTreesSt Shrub 
 ,, ,« Gardening 
 
 „ Encyclopa?dia of Plants . 
 „ Suburban Gardener - 
 
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 CLASSIFIED IKDEX 
 
 Pages 
 
 Loudon's Self-Instruction for Gardeners 18 
 
 ,, (Mr.) Amateur Gardener - - 18 
 
 Repton's Landscape Gardening, etc. - 25 
 
 lUvers's Rose Amateur's Guide - - 25 
 
 Roberts on the Vine ----- 25 
 
 Rogers's Vegetable Cultivator - • - 26 
 
 Schleiden's Scientific Botany - - - 26 
 
 Smith's Introduction to Botany - -27 
 
 „ English Flora ... - 27 
 
 ,, Compendium of English Flora - 27 
 
 CHRONOLOGY. 
 
 Blair's Chronological Tables - • - 6 
 
 Nicolas's Chronology of History - - 23 
 
 Riddle's Ecclesiastical Chronology . - 25 
 
 Tate's Horatius Restitutus - - - 29 
 
 COMMERCE AND MERCANTILE 
 AFFAIRS. 
 
 Gilbart On Banking . - - - 12 
 
 M'CuUoch's Dictionary of Commerce - 19 
 
 Reader's Time Tables - - - - 26 
 
 Steel's Shipmaster's Assistant - • - 28 
 
 Symonds' Merchant Seamen's Laws - 29 
 
 Thomson's Tables of Interest - . - 30 
 
 Walford's Customs' Laws • • - 31 
 
 GEOGRAPHY AND ATLASES. 
 
 Butler's Ancient and Modern Geography 
 ,, Atlas of Modern Geography 
 ,, ,, Ancient Geography 
 
 „ ,, General Geography 
 
 Cooley's World Surveyed ... 
 
 De Strzelecki's New South Wales - 
 Forster's Historical Geography of Arabia 
 Hall's Large General Atlas 
 M'CuUoch's Geographical Dictionary 
 Murray's Encyclopiedia of Geography 
 Parrot's Ascent of Mount Ararat - 
 
 HISTORY AND CRITICISM. 
 
 Adair's (SirR.) Mission to Vienna - 
 
 ,, Constantinople - - - - 
 Bell's History of Russia - - - . 
 Blair's Chron. and Historical Tables 
 Bloomfield's Translation of Thucydides - 
 
 ,, Edition of Thucydides 
 Cooley's Maritime and Inland Discovery 
 Crowe's History of France ... 
 De Sismoudi's Fall of the Roman Empire 
 
 ,, Italian Republics 
 
 Dunham's History of Spain iiiul Portugal 
 ,, Europe in the Middle Ages 
 
 ,, History of the German Empire 
 
 „ Denmark, Sweden, and Norway 
 ,, History of Poland ... 
 Dunlop's History of Fiction 
 Eastlake's History of Oil Painting 
 Eccleston's English Antiquities 
 Fergus's United States of America 
 Grant (Mrs.) Memoir and Corespoudence 
 Grattan's History of Netherlands 
 Grimblot's William III. and Louis XIV. 
 Guicciardini's Historical Maxims - 
 Halsted's Life of Richard III. 
 Haydon's Lectures on Paintingaud Design 
 Historical Charades ----- 
 Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages - 
 Horsley's (Bp.) Biblical Criticism - 
 Jeffrey s (Lord) Contributions 
 Keightley's Outlines of History 
 Laing's Kings of Norway - - ■ 
 Lempri&re's Classical Dictionary 
 Macaulay's Essays - . - . 
 
 Mackintosh's History of England 
 
 ,, Miscellaneous Works 
 
 M'CuUoch's Dictionary, Historical, Geo- 
 graphical, and Stati.stical 
 Maunder's Treasury of History 
 Milner's Church History _ _ . 
 
 Pages 
 
 Moore's History of Ireland - - - 22 
 
 Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History - - 22 
 
 Nicolas's Chronology of History - - 23 
 
 Ranke's History of the Reformation - 24 
 
 Rich's Companion to the Latin Dictionary 25 
 
 Riddle's Latin Dictionaries - - - 25 
 
 Rome, History of - - - - - 26 
 
 Russell's Bedford Correspondence - 6 
 
 Scott's History of Scotland - - - 26 
 
 Sinnett's Byways of History - - - 27 
 
 Stebbing's History of the Christian Church 28 
 
 History of the Reformation 
 
 ,, Church History - - . 
 Switzerland, History of - 
 
 Sydney Smith's Works - . . - 
 
 Thirl wall's History of Greece - • - 
 
 Tooke's History of Prices - • - 
 Turner's History of England ... 
 Tytler's Elements of General History 
 
 Zumpt's Latin Grammar . - - • 
 
 JUVENILE BOOKS. 
 Amy Herbert .-.--- 
 Boy's (The) Own Book . • • - 
 Gertrude -.-.--« 
 Gower's Scientific Phenomena 
 Hawes's Tales of the American Indians - 
 Historical Charades - - - . . 
 Howitt's Boy's Country Book - • - 
 
 „ ChUd's Year Book . 
 Laneton Parsonage - - - - . 
 Mackintosh's Life of Sir T. More • 
 Marcet's Conversations — 
 
 On Chemistry 
 
 On Natural Philosophy 
 
 On Political Economy 
 
 On Vegetable Physiology 
 
 On Land and Water - 
 Marryat's Masterman Ready 
 
 ,, Privateer's-Man 
 
 ,, Settlers in Canada 
 
 ,, Mission ; or, Scenes in Africa 
 Pycroft's Course of English Reading 
 Twelve Years Ago - - - - . 
 
 MEDICINE. 
 
 Bull's Hints to Mothers - 
 
 ,, Management of Children 
 Copland's Dictionary of Medicine 
 EUiotson's Human Physiology 
 Esdaile's Mesmerism in India - 
 Holland's Medical Notes - 
 Lane's Water Cure at Malvern 
 PereiraOn Fooil and Diet 
 Recce's Medical Guide 
 Thomson on Food - - - 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Adshead on Prisons ..... 
 Cartoons (The Prize) .... 
 Clavers's Forest Life . . . . 
 
 Cocks's Bordeaux, its Wines, etc. - 
 Collegian's Guide - - . - - 
 
 Colton's Lacon 
 
 De Burtin On the Knowledge of Pictures 
 De Morgan On Probabilities - - - 
 De Strzelecki's New South Wales - 
 Dresden Gallery ..... 
 Dunlop's History of Fiction . 
 Good's Book of Nature . - . . 
 Gower's Scientific Phenomena 
 Graham's Englisli - - . . . 
 Grant's Letters from the Mountains 
 Iland-Book of Taste . . . . 
 
 Hobbcs's (Thos.) complete Works 
 Hooker's Kew Guide . . . _ 
 Howitt's Rural Life of England 
 
 ,, Visits to Remarkable Places - 
 
 „ Student Life of Germany 
 
 ,, Rural and Social Life of Germans
 
 TO MESSRS. LONGMAN AND CO. S CATALOGUE. 
 
 Pages 
 Howitt's Colonisation and Christianity -15 
 Hume's Account of Learned Societies - 15 
 Jaenisch on Chess Openings - - - 15 
 Jeffrey's (Lord) Contributions - - 16 
 
 King's (Col.) Argentine Republic - Ifi 
 
 Lane's Life at the Water Cure - - 16 
 
 Loudon's (Mrs.) Lady's Country Companion 18 
 Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays 19 
 Mackintosh's (Sir J.) Miscellaneous Works 19 
 Maitland's Church in Catacombs - - 20 
 Michelet's Priests, Women, and Families 21 
 
 ,, The People - - - - 21 
 Necker DeSaussure's on Education - 23 
 Peter Plymlev's Letters - - - - 24 
 Plunkett on the Navy _ _ - . 24 
 Pycroft's English Course of Reading - 24 
 Rich's Companion to the Latin Dictionary 25 
 Riddle's Latin Dictionaries - - - 25 
 Roget's Economic Chess-board - -26 
 Rowton's Debater - ... 26 
 
 Sandford's Parochialia - - - - 26 
 Seaward 's Narrative of his Shipwreck - 26 
 Southey's Common-Place Book - - 28 
 
 „ Doctor, etc. Vols. VL and VII. 28 
 Sydney Smith's Works ... .28 
 Thomson on Food of Animals, etc. - - 30 
 Walker's Chess Studies - - - - 31 
 Willoughby's (Lady) Diary - - - 32 
 Zumpt's Latin Grammar - • - •32 
 
 NATURAL HISTORY IN GENERAL. 
 
 Callow's Popular Conchology - - - 7 
 
 Doublcday's Butterflies and Moths - 10 
 
 Drummorid's Letters to a Naturalist - 10 
 
 Gray and Mitchell's Ornithology - - 12 
 
 ,, ,, Accipitres • - 12 
 
 Kirby and Spence's Entomology - - 16 
 
 Lee's Taxidermy 17 
 
 ,, Elements of Natural History - - 17 
 
 Maunder's Treasury of Natural History 21 
 
 Newell's Znology of the English Poets - 23 
 
 Stephens' British Beetles - - - 28 
 
 Swainson on the Study of Natural History 29 
 
 ,, Animals - - - - 29 
 
 ,, Quadrupeds • • - - 29 
 
 „ Birds 29 
 
 ,, Animals in Menageries - 29 
 
 ,, Fish, Amphibia, and Reptiles 29 
 
 ,, Insects - - - - 29 
 
 ,, Malacology - ■ - - 29 
 
 ,, Habits and Instincts - - 29 
 
 ,, Taxidermy - - - - 29 
 
 Turton's Shells of the Britisli Islands - 31 
 
 W.iterton's Essays on Natural History - 31 
 
 Westwood's Classification of Insects - 82 
 
 Zoology of H.M. S.s' Erebus and Terror 32 
 
 NOVELS AND WORKS OF FICTION. 
 
 Brav's (Mrs.) Novels .... 
 
 Duiilop's History of Fiction . - - 
 
 Fawn ofSertorius - - - - - 
 
 Lady Willoughby's Diary - - - 
 
 Marrj'at's Masterman Ready - - . 
 
 „ Privatccr's-Man . - - 
 
 „ Settlers in Canada _ - • 
 
 „ Mission; or, Scenes in Africa - 
 
 Pericles, A Tale of Athens - . - 
 
 Southey's Doctor, etc. Vols. VI. and VII. 
 
 Twelve Vears Ago - . - . - 
 
 31 
 
 ONE VOLUME ENCYCLOPytDIAS 
 AND DICTIONARIES. 
 
 Blaine's, of Rural Sports - - - - 6 
 
 Brande's, of Science, Literature, and Art 6 
 
 C;opland's, of Medicine ... - 8 
 
 Cresy's, of Civil Engineering - - - 9 
 
 liwilt's, of Architecture • - - - 13 
 
 Johnson's Farmer - - - . . 16 
 
 - 22 
 
 - 31 
 
 Pages 
 
 Loudnn's,of Trees and Shrubs - - 18 
 
 ,, ofGardening - - - - 18 
 
 ,, of Agriculture - - - - IS 
 
 „ of Plants ----- 18 
 
 ,, of Rural Architecture - - 18 
 
 M'CuUoch's Geographical Dictionary - 19 
 
 ,, Dictionary of Commerce - 19 
 
 Murray's EncyclopEcdia of Geography 
 
 Ure's Arts, Manufactures, and Mines 
 
 Webster's Domestic Economy - - SJ 
 
 POETRY AND THE DRAMA. 
 
 Aikin's (Dr.) British Poets - ■ - 26 
 Burger's Leonora, by Cameron - - 7 
 Chalenor's Walter Gray - - - - 8 
 Collier's Roxburghe Ballads ... 8 
 Costello's Persian Rose Garden . _ g 
 Goldsmith's Poems, illustrated - .12 
 
 Gray's Elegy, illuminated - - - 12 
 
 Gutch's Robin Hode - • • - 13 
 
 Horace, by Tate - . - _ . 29 
 Howitt's (Mary) Ballads . _ . 14 
 
 L.E. L.'s Poetical Works • . - I7 
 
 Linwood's Anthologia Oxoniensis - -17 
 Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome - '19 
 Mackay's English Lakes - - • -19 
 Montgomery's Poetical Works - - 22 
 
 Moore's Poetical Works - • - -22 
 „ LallaRookh .... 22 
 ,, Irish Melodies - - - - 22 
 Moral of Flowers ----- 22 
 Poets' Pleasaunce ..... 24 
 Pope's Works -..-.. 24 
 Reynard the Fox - - - - . 25 
 Shakspeare, by Bowdler - . - 26 
 
 Sheldon's Minstrelsy - • - - 26 
 Sophocles, by Linwood - - - - 28 
 Southey's Poetical Works - - - 28 
 
 ,, British Poets - - - - 26 
 
 Spirit of the Woods - - . .28 
 
 Thomson's Seasons, illustrated • - 29 
 „ with Notes, by Dr. A. T. Thomson 29 
 
 POLITICAL ECONOMY AND 
 STATISTICS. 
 
 Gilbart on Banking - . . - - 12 
 
 Lang's Cookslaud - - - - - 16 
 
 ,, Phillipsland - - - - 16 
 
 M'CuUoch's Geographical, Statistical, and 
 
 Historical Dictionary • - - 19 
 
 M'CuUoch's Dictionary of Commerce . 19 
 
 „ Literature of Polit. Economy 20 
 
 ,, On Taxation and Funding - 20 
 
 ,, Statistics of the British Empire 19 
 
 Marcet's Conversations on Polit. Economy 20 
 
 Registrar-General's Reports - - - 25 
 
 Symonds' Merchant Seamen's Law - 29 
 
 Tooke's History of Prices - - - 30 
 
 Twiss's (Dr.) View of Political Economy 31 
 
 RELIGIOUS AND MORAL 
 V\/ORKS, ETC. 
 
 Amy Herbert, edited by Rev. W, Sewell 5 
 
 Barrett's Old Testament Criticisms - - 5 
 
 Bloomfield's Greek Testament - - 6 
 
 ,, College and School ditto - 6 
 
 ,, Lexicon to Greek Testament fi 
 
 Bunsen's Church of the Future - - 7 
 
 Burder's Oriental Customs • - - 7 
 
 Burns's Christian Philosophy - - - 7 
 
 ,, Christian Fragments - - - 7 
 
 Callcott's Scripture Herbal - - - 7 
 
 Cooper's Sermons - - - - - 8 
 
 Coqnerel's Christianity - — - - 8 
 
 Dale's Domestic Liturgy - - - 9 
 
 Dibdin's Sunday Library - . - -10 
 
 Doddridge's Family Expositor - . 10 
 
 Englishman's Hebrew Concordance - 11 
 
 Greek (Concordance - II
 
 4 
 
 CLASSIFIED INOLX. 
 
 Paifes 
 
 Kitzroy's fLady) Scripture CoiiTersatioiis 11 
 
 P'orster's Historical Geography of Arabia 11 
 
 „ Life of Bishop Jebb - - - H 
 
 From Oxford to Rome - - - - 11 
 
 Gascoyne on the Apocalypse - - • 11 
 
 Gertrude, edited l)y the Rev. W. Sewell - 12 
 
 Hook's (Dr.) Lectures on Passion Week 14 
 
 Home's Introduction to the Scriptures - 14 
 
 „ Compendium of ditto - '14 
 
 Horsley's (Bp.) Biblical Criticism - - 14 
 
 ,, Psalms - - - - - H 
 
 Jebb's Correspondence with Knox - - 15 
 
 ,, Translationof the Psalms - - 15 
 
 Kip's Christmas in Rome - - ■ - 16 
 
 Knox's (Alexander) Remains - - - 16 
 
 Laing's Notes on the German Schism - 16 
 
 Luneton Parsonage ----- 16 
 
 Letters to my Unknown Friends - - 17 
 
 Maitland's Church in the Catacombs - 20 
 
 Margaret Percival 20 
 
 Michelei's Priests, Women, and Families 21 
 
 ,, and Quinet's Jesuits - - 21 
 
 Milner'g Church History - - - - 21 
 
 Miracles of Our Saviour - - - 21 
 
 Moore on the Power of the Soul - - 22 
 
 „ on the Use of the Body - - 22 
 
 Mosbelm's Ecclesiastical History - - 22 
 
 My Youthful Companions - • - 22 
 Parables of Our Lord - - - -23 
 
 Parkes's Domestic Duties - - - 23 
 
 Pearson's Prayers for Families - - 23 
 
 Peter Plymley's Letters - - - - 24 
 
 Pitman's Sermons on the Psalms - - 24 
 
 Quinet's Christianity - - - - 24 
 
 Ranke's Reformation - - - - 24 
 
 Riddle's Letters from a Godfather - - 25 
 Sandford On Female Improvement - -26 
 
 „ On Woman - - - - 2fi 
 
 ,, 's Parochialla - • - - 26 
 
 Sermon on the Mount (The) - - - 26 
 
 Shepherd's Horie Apostolica; - - 27 
 
 Shunanunite (The Good) - - - - 2/ 
 
 Sinclair's Journey of Life - - - 27 
 
 Smith's Female Disciple - - - - 27 
 
 ,, (G.) Perilous Times - - - 27 
 
 ,, Religion of Ancient Britain 27 
 
 „ Sacred Annals - - - 2/ 
 
 Southey's Life of Wesley - . - 28 
 
 Stebbing's Christian Church - - - 28 
 
 ,, Reformation - - - - 28 
 
 ,. Church History - - - 21 
 
 Sleepleton - 28 
 
 Sydney Smith's Sermons - • - 28 
 
 Tate's History of St. Paul - - . 29 
 
 Tayler's(Rev.C.B.)Margaret; or, the Pearl 29 
 
 ,, ,, Sermons - - 29 
 
 ,, „ DoraMelder - - 29 
 
 ,, ,, Lady Mary - - 29 
 
 Taylor's (Jeremy) Works - - - 29 
 
 Tomline's Introduction to the Bible - 80 
 
 Trevor; or the New St. Frnncis - - 30 
 
 Trollope's Analecta Theologica - » 30 
 
 Turner's Sacred History - . - 30 
 
 Twelve Years Ago ----- 31 
 
 Wardlaw On Socinian Controversv - 31 
 
 Weil's Bible, Koran, and Talmud' - - 32 
 
 Wilberforce's View of Christianity - 32 
 
 Wilkinsou'sCatechisms of Church History 32 
 
 Willoughby's (Lady) Diary - . - 32 
 
 Wilson^s Lands of the Bible - - - 32 
 
 RURAL SPORTS. 
 
 Blafne'sDictionary of Sports - - - 6 
 Ephemera on Angling - - - -11 
 
 Hansard's Fishing in Wales - - 13 
 
 Hawbuck Grange - - - - - 13 
 
 Hawker's Instructions to Sportsmen - 13 
 ?,oudon's(MrR.) Lady's Country Companion 18 
 
 Stable Talk and Tabic Talk - - - 28 
 
 THE SCIENCES IN GENERAL, 
 AND MATHEMATICS. 
 
 I';:g._5 
 
 Bakewell's Introduction to Geology • 5 
 
 Brande's Dictionary of Science, etc. - 6 
 
 Brewster's Optics _ - - - - 6 
 
 Conversations on Mineralogy . - 8 
 
 De la Beche on theGeology ol Cornwall, etc. 9 
 
 Donovan's Chemistry - - - - 10 
 
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