CHAPTER XII 



SOME GARDEN CONTRASTS AND A DREAM 



Heresy and Orthodoxy stand not behind the screen of Truth. 

 Heresy to the Heretic, Orthodoxy to the Orthodox ; 

 But only the dust of the Rose Petal remains to the seller of perfume. 



MAXIMS OF AKBAB. 



THE history of the Mughal garden follows the 

 course of other Indian arts. When Aurungzeb 

 destroyed at one blow Indian unity and Akbar's 

 dream of Empire, by the banishment of the Hindu 

 craftsmen from the Moslem Court, they took 

 refuge with the Hindu Princes of Rajputana and 

 Central India. There the masons and master- 

 builders of the Taj and the Mughal garden- 

 palaces found welcome and generous patronage, 

 as the splendid gardens and palace fortresses of 

 the Hindu Rajas testify. It is in Rajputana, 

 more than in the remaining Moslem centres of 

 Lucknow and Hyderabad, or the great Anglo- 

 Indian coast towns, that Indian art has survived 

 the fall of the Mughal Empire and is still a living 



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