Footfalls of Indian history . n three streams,forming a network that is enough to show us theattention that must have been paid in ancient Indiato the problems of irrigation, in order to give birthto so marvellous a degree of hydraulic away in Central India is a monumental building,of an age some two hundred years later than thatof Old Rajgir, which shows by its ornamentalcascades the same engineering genius, and thesame royal idea of magnificence as wefind here. Well may the Indian people glory inthe ancestry which already lived in this splendour,while that of Northern
Footfalls of Indian history . n three streams,forming a network that is enough to show us theattention that must have been paid in ancient Indiato the problems of irrigation, in order to give birthto so marvellous a degree of hydraulic away in Central India is a monumental building,of an age some two hundred years later than thatof Old Rajgir, which shows by its ornamentalcascades the same engineering genius, and thesame royal idea of magnificence as wefind here. Well may the Indian people glory inthe ancestry which already lived in this splendour,while that of Northern apd Western Europe wentclad in painted woad. There can be a few places in the world so oldas Rajgir, about which so much is definitely knownand so much safely to be inferred. It was in allprobability about the year 590 —in a worldin which Babylon and Phoenicia and Egypt andSheba were of all facts most living and important—it was a,bout the year 590 that there camealong the road leading into the valley yonder, one. • Buddha and the Lame Kid. From Water-col our bv Naiida Lai Bose. RAJGIR: AN ANCIENT BAHYLON 41 whose very form was radiant with feehng andthought, that Ufted him above the common worldinto that consciousness that makes history. It may have been early morning when He the books say that the great company of goatswas being led up at that moment for the royalsacrifice; fixed, it may have been, for about thehour of noon. Or it may have been about the timeof cowdust, on the eve of the festival, and theherdsmen may have intended to stable their goatsfor that night outside the palace. In any caseHe came, some say carrying on his shoulder a lamekid, followed by the patter of thousands of littlehoofs. He came, moreover, in a passion of veritable storm of compassion had broken loosewithm him on behalf of these, the helpless littlebrothers of humanity, who were caught like manhimself in the net of pain and pleasure, of life anddeath ; bewildered li
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