Agar firdûs ba rû-e-zamîn ast,
Hamîn ast o hamîn ast o hamîn ast!
If there be an Elysium on the face of the earth,
It is here, and it is here, and it is here!
Shâh Jahân built the Shâlimâr gardens at Lahor, in imitation of those at Srinagar, and afterwards Ranjît Singh restored them. They are on the Amritsar Road.
Gangâbal.—A holy lake on the top of Mount Harâmukh, 16,905 feet, in the north of Kashmîr. It is one of the sources of the Jhelam River, and the scene of an annual fair about 20th August.
Khichrî.—Sweet khichrî consists of rice, sugar, cocoa-nut, raisins, cardamoms, and aniseed; salt khichrî of pulse and rice.
The stone in the ashes.—The pâras, in Sanskrit sparsamani, the stone that turns what it touches into gold.
Attock.—In the original it is the Atak River (the Indus) near Hoti Mardân, which place is near Atak or Attock. The similarity in the names 'Ali Mardan and Hotî Mardân probably gave rise to this statement. They have no connection whatever.
THE WONDERFUL RING
The Wonderful Ring.—In the vernacular 'ajab mundrâ: a variant of the inexhaustible box.
Holy place.—Chaunkâ, a square place plastered with cow-dung, used by Hindus when cooking or worshipping. The cow-dung sanctifies and purifies it.