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I saw a carpet with the design of “The Garden of Shalimar” which is in Lahore, Pakistan. Another featured a bearded face with a turban in a drinking party with beautiful women which illustrated a poem in Persian, on its upper margin, by Omar Khayyam.
Vehicles and men jostled for space. We watched monkeys [54] walk on the overhanging jumble of electrical wires.
We saw merchants sitting on white cloth in their small shops, some stretching their legs. The shops were narrow, open to the street and elevated above it.
I walked around the gallery with a fellow traveler who had expressed an interest in a carpet the salesman had called a Kashan.
“These carpets are not made elsewhere because the younger generation does not make them in Kashmir. It is a dying art. Each of our carpet is made by just one family. Our prices are fixed.”
Now traffic signs in Delhi show the divergence: they are still in the old Urdu script but also in a different script for Hindi, as Hinudstani is called after becoming far more Sanskritized.
The signs in Urdu read elan-e qurbani (Notices for the Sacrifice). The Muslim Feast of Sacrifice (aid ol azha) was only days away and the goats here were sold for the rite of sacrifice.
The Irish man said “but you claim that he is the last prophet that he has the last word.” Soon the custodians asked us to leave the Mosque...
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