202 PINJOR 



which his faithful dog, who had followed him, 

 was barred. 



A gap of many years lies between this mythical 

 history and a time so recent as the seventeenth 

 century, when the great Mughal gardens were 

 built at Pinjor. Their builder, the celebrated 

 Fadai Khan, under whose direction the Imperial 

 Mosque at Lahore was also constructed, was, it 

 will be remembered, the foster-brother of the 

 Emperor Aurungzeb, one of the few omrahs of 

 the Mughal Court whom the crafty Emperor 

 really favoured. He made Fadai the governor 

 of this district, then as now noted for its forests 

 full of game. Here the new governor evidently 

 grasped the possibilities of the Pinjor spring, and, 

 with the artistic instinct of his age, planned a 

 great terraced garden, so situated as to embrace 

 wide views over the lower woodlands to the plains 

 beyond ; a garden through which the spring might 

 flow with the never-ending music of its water- 

 falls and fountains. Only the scorching summer 

 of the dusty, burning plains can teach the joy 

 and full possibilities of water. To Indians of 

 every creed water is an almost sacred thing, and 

 all springs are holy. Here in the KZhan's own 

 province of Pinjor was water; not the muddy 



