CHAPTER VII.
In taking the tank Bârunî for a subject I have got into difficulties: I cannot rise to the description of it. The tank was very large. It lay like a blue mirror framed by a border of grass. Beyond the grass frame was another frame, that of the flower garden. On the four sides of the tank stretched Gobind Lâl’s' flower garden; the trees and the walls of the garden seemed to continue endlessly. This frame was very brilliant, enamelled with flowers of varied hue—red, black, green, rose, white, yellow—and studded with gems of many sorts of fruits in their leafy sheaths. Here and there the white summer houses glittered, each like an enormous diamond in the rays of the setting sun. And overhead the sky: that also enframed the garden, that also was a sort of blue mirror. This blue sky, this frame of garden, this frame of grass, the flowers,
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