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the celebration, adorned with numerous lamps, kc. This is called 
the Imaumbarah. In it are placed the supposed tombs of these 
young men, made of different materials, according to the respective 
wealth of the owner. The nobles kho at their own houses have 
similar festivals. The late Nawaub kept it with great splendor, 
sometimes expending a lac of rupees on the occasion. Saadut AH is 
more economical, and even melted down several ornaments used for 
the occasion, made of silver and gold : one or two of them produced 
a lac each in bullion. 
May 1 .—The Moharam is now over, and I several times visited 
the Imaumbarah on the occasion. On the last day I met the pro- 
cession of mourners attending the supposed horse of Hossein, which 
is represented as pierced on every side by arrows. Mussulmaun 
prejudices are now so weakened in India, that the procession was 
stopped at my request, and, that I might view the horse with more 
facility, he was brought close to my palanquin. The Imaumbarah 
is certainly the most beautiful building I have seen in India ; it was 
erected by the late Nawaub, for the double purpose of celebrating 
this festival, and of serving as a burial place for himself. It consists 
of three very long and finely proportioned apartments, running 
parallel to each other : in the middle one is his tomb, level with 
the ground. The centre is earth, covered with a scanty herbage, 
and surrounded with a broad margin of white marble, in which 
sentences from the Koran are inlaid in black. At one end lies the 
sword, turban, &c. which he had on when he died. Over it is a 
rich canopy supported by four pillars, covered with cloth of gold, 
now in decay. Unfortunately, it was necessary to place his tomb 
diagonally, that he might lie in a proper Mahomedan position 
