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We were taken to the village of Chomu for lunch. On the sidewalk of a street here I observed the rare signs of another religion. A small group of men were praying on the sidewalk in front of a modest white building that served as their Mosque.
In Chomu the highway shrank to a narrow paved strip in the middle of a wider dirt road. The cluster of shacks we had seen in a few places on the road became bigger and combined with a few shapeless low buildings to give Chomu the appearance of a market town for farmers.
Then he showed us the Shiva Lingam, “for male, vertical, and for female, like a saucer,” saying this abstract presentation perhaps served better to express the Hindu idea of divinity.
... was only occasionally interrupted by the vibrant colors of dresses on women from the nearby villages.
If Monkey God spoke to the reverence for animals in Hinduism, Vishnu was the apotheoses of man. Birla’s Vishnu was a meta-human size sculpture modeled after man. There were two such anthropomorphic divine sculptures. One was Vishnu’s 7th reincarnation as Rama, with quiver and arrows, standing alongside his consort Sita.
We were now down from the bus on the road, hurrying to have a better look at a special sight along the other side. A man was sweeping the ground as he was moving up in the opposite direction on the road. A woman in a saffron-colored robe walked behind of him. Every few steps she would fall down and crawl a few feet on the road. A rickshaw carrying their belongings was accompanying them.
Just beyond the ditch on the side of the highway we could see red-faced monkeys = jumping off tree branches. “This type monkeys are aggressive and could be dangerous,” the guide said. Some were perilously close to the road. We also spotted antelopes “with the face of the cow and the body of the horse,” who were “the favorite food of tigers,” as our guide said.
The couple on pilgrimage had just passed a store, where a sadhu with a white turban was sitting outside. He was “a holy man, a worshiper of god Shiva, who has renounced this world,” our guide described him. “Some sadhuses are very learned.”
The main highway from Delhi south leads to mediaeval times. Just outside of town we were sharing this toll road with camels and bullocks used as common means of transportation.
Tourists are beckoned by the colors of Rajasthan. Splashed over gelatin or equivalents, these colors draw the magic of their aesthetics from contrasts. The women of Rajasthan defy the drab monotone of a semi arid environment by riots of red, green, blue, and orange in their garments.
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