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somewhat reminding one of the old English damask basket 

 design. 



Adjoining is Eunjeet Singh's tomb ; or rather the place 

 where his ashes rest, for of course, like all Hindoos, his 

 body was cremated. From the outside it looks a fine 

 edifice, but, as usual, you have to creep up to it by a narrow 



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staircase in the wall. Once inside, the building is a curious 

 mixture of the secular and sacred. Tombs on the first floor ; 

 Sikh priests overhead ; servants, horses and cattle below. 

 Runjeet's ashes are marked by a marble lotus flower, around 

 which are smaller ones denoting the eleven ladies of his 

 Zenana who were burnt with his corpse. 



On one side of the cenotaph sat a priest, chanting 



