CHAPTER IX 



PINJOR AN INDIAN COUNTRY-HOUSE 

 AND ITS GARDEN 



Alas that Spring should vanish with the Rose ! 



That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close ! 



The Nightingale that in the bushes sang, 

 Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows ! 



OMAR KHAYYAM. 



THE Mughal gardens of the plains are sad for 

 want of flowers ; the terraced gardens of the 

 Dal have lost in part their original character ; 

 the gardens of the Kashmir springs are but 

 shadows of their former loveliness : but Pinjor, 

 the great garden made by Fadai Khan at the 

 holy spring of Panchpura, still serves its purpose 

 practically unchanged since Fadai first built 

 this Indian country-house and its garden. 



As at other famous springs, each religion in 

 its turn has left its mark at Pinjor. There are 

 many fragments of ancient Sanskrit inscriptions 

 there, and Abu Rehan mentions its existence in 



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