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Another journey was through Orissa, with its famous 

 temple of Bhubaneswar, its caves of Udaigiri and the great 

 rock-inscription of Asoka, Puri with its Jagannath temple, 

 the neighbouring ruins of Kanarak, the Chilka lake, and 

 so on. The famous caves of A j ant a and Ellora were visited 

 together ; and then again on a later journey with Mrs. (now 

 Lady) Herringham and her group of Indian and other artist- 

 collaborators on their task of copying the Ajanta paintings 

 Sister Nivedita (Margaret Noble) being also of the party. 

 At Bankipur the excavations of Pataliputra, and the famous 

 Persian and Moghul library, were duly visited ; and also 

 the birthplace of Govinda Singh, one of that notable 

 succession of saints and heroes who founded the Sikh 

 religion. Another year the Sikh interest was followed up 

 at its main centre Amritsar, with the golden temple. One 

 journey to Lahore was to lecture in the University ; but 

 again there were extended visits. Similarly the Bombay 

 district was wandered through, largely for its cave-temples 

 of Elephanta, Karli and Kenhari, and next the Mahratta 

 country, with its associations of the struggles of the warlike 

 Shiva ji. 



Again on their last return journey from Europe and 

 America, in 1915, these ardent travel-comrades, landing at 

 Colombo, travelled through Ceylon, visiting the ancient 

 Buddhist temples, and thence came northwards through 

 the great temple-cities of the south, from Rameswaram by 

 Madura and Tan j ore, to Trichinopoly and Srirangam 

 places of which the writer has lately written an interpretative 

 eulogy, even venturing to correct the estimate of Ferguson. 1 

 At the last named Bose was not only shown all that ordinary 

 Indian visitors may see, but invited to enter the inmost 

 precincts the Holy of Holies. He explained that he was 

 not an orthodox Hindu, and no longer believed in caste, and 

 had lost it in any case by his journeys to foreign countries 

 across the sea ; and so he had no light to enter the 



1 ' The Temple Cities,' Modern Review, March 1919. 



