Our boys in India . ointing outa woman with a snow-white sari, or Hindu shawl, thrownabout her. She is perhaps in mourning, replied Mr. Raymond. White for mourning? queried Scott. What in theworld is that for? Dont they know what is right? Why do people in America wear black, Scott? -Why, because it is solemn. What makes it solemn ? Because its mourning, I suppose, said Scott, laughing. Didnt you say this was a temple ? he said to Mr. Ray-mond, as he stood that afternoon in the main galler) of thecaves of Elephanta, with its corridors and arches, a hundredand thirty feet square. Yes, this is a
Our boys in India . ointing outa woman with a snow-white sari, or Hindu shawl, thrownabout her. She is perhaps in mourning, replied Mr. Raymond. White for mourning? queried Scott. What in theworld is that for? Dont they know what is right? Why do people in America wear black, Scott? -Why, because it is solemn. What makes it solemn ? Because its mourning, I suppose, said Scott, laughing. Didnt you say this was a temple ? he said to Mr. Ray-mond, as he stood that afternoon in the main galler) of thecaves of Elephanta, with its corridors and arches, a hundredand thirty feet square. Yes, this is a temple. Many claim, that, ages ago, theJains started it. It was literally excavated out of the mountain- , . , OUR BOYS IN INDIA. side. Do you see, the floor and the pillars and caps andthe arched roof are all of one single block of stone? Anddo you see that figure of Bramha there, behind the bas-reliefof Siva? That is the marriage of Siva and the goddessParvati; and that figure of Bramha, you see, has three CAVES OF ELEFHANTA. If the Jain theory be true, it is one of the earliest records inthe world, of any idea of a Trinity, or, perhaps better, a triad. How do they know that it is a marriage, if it was madeso long ago ? inquired Scott. Simply because Parvati is standing upon the right handof Siv^; and no woman is allowed to stand upon the righthand of her husband, except during the marriage ceremony. They must have enjoyed picking as much as we dowhittling, to have dug out all this, observed Scott, looking IN PAL AN QUI.\ AND ROW-BOAT. oo about him. Its a big thing, but I wouldnt give a cent forit as a church. Did you ever attend a service here ? Just one, repHed Richard ; but not the kind of one youmean. I attended the dinner oriven to the Prince of Wales here a little while agfo. o
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