The Raja conducted us to the head of the
stairs, and the same two officers attended us to the bottom, and
mounted their horses, and attended us to the tombs.
After the dust of the town raised by the immense crowd that attended
us, and the ceremonies of the day, a walk in this beautiful garden
was very agreeable, and I prolonged it till dark. The Raja had given
orders to have all the cisterns filled during our stay, under the
impression that we should wish to see the garden; and, as soon as we
entered, the _jets d'eau_ poured into the air their little floods
from a hundred mouths. Our old cicerone told us that, if we would
take the old capital of Orchha in our way, we might there see the
thing in perfection, and amidst the deluges of the rains of Sawan and
Bhadon (July and August) see the lightning and hear the thunder. The
Rajas of this, the oldest principality in Bundelkhand, were all
formerly buried or burned at the old capital of Orchha, even after
they had changed their residence to Tehri. These tombs over the ashes
of the Raja, his wife, and son, are the first that have been built at
Tehri, where their posterity are all to repose in future.
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