120 GARDENS OF THE PLAINS DELHI 



fifty feet across. The larger of the two was laid 

 out more particularly as a water garden. The 

 centre was occupied by a big bathing tank with 

 a baradari surrounded by fountains in its midst. 

 Four canals radiated from this reservoir, two of 

 them being filled at their far ends by streams 

 running in through two charming little marble 

 water pavilions. These buildings still exist, and 

 were called the Bhadon and the Sawan, from the 

 fact that their sheets of water falling over recesses 

 for lights suggested the showers and lightning 

 of the rainy season. Along the terrace walk on 

 the ramparts ran a water parterre with a fountain 

 in each of its little beds ; this finished on the north 

 side in another larger building called the Shah 

 Burj. Here there is a lovely fountain basin 

 and a deeply-carved white marble water-chute. 



One must have passed a long hot summer in 

 the Indian plains to realise the full delight 

 of this well- named garden the joy of the life- 

 giving dewy mornings, of the vivid transparency 

 of the fresh opening flowers, and of the swim in 

 the fountain-sprinkled pool ; or the vast relief of 

 the one cool hour before the daylight dies, when 

 the grey haze steals over the fields below the 

 river terrace, where the fountains play and the 



