India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . ese innovations,as usual, quite spoiling the surroundings of anative city. The next morning we had a visit from the Maha-rajahs private secretary, who invited us to drivein the afternoon to visit the Buddhish topes andsculptures at Sarnath about five miles from American lady we had previously met was tobe of the party, and she was staying at the GuestHouse, and at the appointed hour the Maharajahscarriage, with a coachman in a green and goldturban and scarlet tunic, and two active youngHindus, si
India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . ese innovations,as usual, quite spoiling the surroundings of anative city. The next morning we had a visit from the Maha-rajahs private secretary, who invited us to drivein the afternoon to visit the Buddhish topes andsculptures at Sarnath about five miles from American lady we had previously met was tobe of the party, and she was staying at the GuestHouse, and at the appointed hour the Maharajahscarriage, with a coachman in a green and goldturban and scarlet tunic, and two active youngHindus, similarly dressed, acted as running footmento clear the way, when not at their posts standingat the back of the carriage. We called at the GuestHouse for our American friend. It was a morepalatial building than the one at Gwalior, standingin a small park with outer gates and a drive. Thehouse was in the classic style—a white building 202 INDIA IMPRESSIONS with flat roof and columned portico. In thelarge hall on the ground floor there was asmall coloured statuette of the Maharajah on. THE MAHARAJAH PLACES HIS CARRIAGE AT OUR DISPOSAL horseback, photographs and portraits upon thewalls, including English miniatures of an Englishofficer and his ladies of the early nineteenthcentury, and some engravings of portraits ofQueen Caroline. A stuffed lioness was lyingon a side-board. The road to Sarnath lay through avenues of finetrees a great part of the way, chiefly mangoes, BENARES 203 banyans, acacias, and tamarinds. The youngtrees planted to fill the gaps were protected bycircular fences, sometimes topped by prickly the circular fence was made of bricks,an aperture being left between every alternatebrick. At Sarnath we saw the results of recent ex-cavations. There was a wonderful pillar madeout of a single piece of marble, but fractured indigging it out. One part stood upright in theearth, the other lay horizontally. The top or capwas placed under an awning near by. It
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