. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . afew hours, by timely preparations, rock and earth enough mightbe brought together to conceal its very vestibule from the valleybelow. Indeed, only during a few reaches in our path hithercould we see the entrance at all, so carefully was the spot chosento prevent notice from the passers-by in the valley. This securitymust have been a prime motive in hewing out cave-temples. Theland has always been rent with warfare. The whole story of In-dia, from the time of Alexanders invasion of the Panjab downto the adjustments of English possessio
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . afew hours, by timely preparations, rock and earth enough mightbe brought together to conceal its very vestibule from the valleybelow. Indeed, only during a few reaches in our path hithercould we see the entrance at all, so carefully was the spot chosento prevent notice from the passers-by in the valley. This securitymust have been a prime motive in hewing out cave-temples. Theland has always been rent with warfare. The whole story of In-dia, from the time of Alexanders invasion of the Panjab downto the adjustments of English possession, is a flame of violentwar. Not a vale or mountain is without its epic of has come in for its share of interest; for in many of thewars the idolatries of sects and teachers have added to the massacres have played their part, and crimes to whichthere are no names have been planned in places of barbaric splen-dor and perpetrated on the innocent millions. But the better day is coming for Indias coral strand. It BUDDHIST SUPPORT PROM THE GANESAGROTTO NEAR CUTTACK. CHAPTEB XVI. PUNA, TIIK MAKHATTA CAPITAL Of all the Indian cities, not one more fully iliac the tran- sition from the old to the new, and tin wry burial of tin- ld inthe new, than Puna. >.or is there a place which better prowhat the Englishman can do with the Hindus prostrate pofisions—namely, to take up a dead and hopeless capital, and, bring-ing in the large outlying territory, clothe the whole With ;i thrift of which the Hindu had never dreamed. The oldPuna, with all its death and desolation. has been surrounded bythe English with a framework of beautiful homes, spacioushotels, large and imposing public buildings, line residences, andgardens worthy of any land. The old city is not very ancient. It owed its first importanceto two considerations. It was chosen by the Marhatta chiefs ;i-the capital of their empire, and its elevated position gave it aperfect a
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