Next To Them Is The
Picture Of Eemersee Sheriff, Eldest Brother To Khan Azam, With Those Of
Many Of The Principal People Of The Court.
It is worthy likewise of notice,
that in this hall are conspicuously placed the pictures of our Saviour and
the Virgin Mary.
[Footnote 251: This unexplained word probably signifies a corridore, or
covered gallery. - E.]
[Footnote 252: Perhaps a divan, or audience hall. - E.]
From this devoncan, or hall of audience, which is pleasantly situated,
overlooking the river, passing a small gate to the west, you enter
another small court, where is another open stone chounter to sit in,
covered with rich semianes, or canopies. From hence you enter a
gallery, at the end of which nest the river is a small window, from
which the king looks forth at his dersanee, to behold the fights of
wild beasts on a meadow beside the river. On the walls of this gallery
are the pictures of the late Emperor Akbar, the present sovereign, and
all his sons. At the end is a small devoncan, where the king usually
sits, and behind it is his bed-chamber, and before it an open paved
court, along the right-hand side of which is a small moholl of two
stories, each containing eight fair chambers for several women, with
galleries and windows looking both to the river and the court. All the
doors of these chambers are made to be fastened on the outside, and not
within. In the gallery, where the king usually sits, there are many
pictures of angels, intermixed with those of banian dews, or devils
rather, being of most ugly shapes, with long horns, staring eyes, shaggy
hair, great paws and fangs, long tails, and other circumstances of
horrible deformity, that I wonder the poor women are not frightened at
them.
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