OLD SHRINES AT PINJOR 207 



of all were the large pale blue butterflies, their 

 wings veined with a delicate tracery of black. 



Driving down the road from Kalka to the 

 gardens, the highway runs through Pinjor 

 village, where mounds and the ruins of many 

 buildings prove that the place must once have been 

 much larger. Many ancient tanks, with their 

 steps worn by a thousand years of pilgrimage, 

 are built round the springs that rise here in 

 such numbers. One of these sacred bathing- 

 places has been roofed in, and the remaining 

 pillars and great stone lintels recall the seventh- 

 century temples of Kashmir. Various old temples, 

 much defaced and modernised, are still to be 

 seen ; also a newer Sikh shrine and a Moham- 

 medan mosque. In this Brahmin village the 

 last appears a sad, deserted-looking building, 

 with its high blank wall facing towards Mecca, 

 on which can yet be traced a graceful floral 

 painting of more prosperous days. It is some- 

 what surprising to find on the opposite side 

 of the road a large masonry tank, adorned 

 with many ornamental fountains, in the Mughal 

 garden style, clearly, like the mosque, a relic of 

 the older Badshahi. Who knows who built it ? 

 Perhaps Fadai Khan, while he was making his 



