Rebirth of India: Superior

. You will see miracles, you will ascend to heaven, and you will gain eternal life!

Those blood-red handprints are the last remains of the concubines before they died. At that time, they had already worn the most gorgeous saris and the most dazzling jewelry. They treated the funeral as a wedding. Which star does not want a perfect farewell performance? The onlookers danced, shouted, excited, and shouted good! Singing for their loyalty and rejoicing for their bravery. This made them not only willing but also calm to walk to the crematorium. The beauty of another world has constructed a grand blueprint in their hearts. Let's go, sisters. One meter away, there is heaven.

After listening to Shakru's explanation, Amisa's expression became even more gloomy, and she said hesitantly: "Then don't they feel pain when they are burned by fire?"

"When they set themselves on fire, do they feel burning pain?" Shakru repeated in a murmur, and then said: "From the perspective of physics, biology or medicine, it should be. But from the perspective of religion, I'm afraid not. The power of religion will only make them feel a burst of fanaticism, not the body, but the mind. The firmness formed by faith at that moment is enough to make them go through mountains of swords and seas of fire. After a moment, there is no consciousness, no more, no more people, no more gods. Everything is gone with the burning firewood and a wisp of wind. "

Seeing Shakru's heavy expression, Amisa comforted him: "Fortunately, such tragic things will no longer happen in India now."

Shakru did not answer this sentence, because he knew that to this day, in some remote areas of India, such things still happen frequently. When human history has entered the 21st century, when mummies and terracotta warriors are only displayed in museums, when the cruelty of the pharaohs and the brutality of Qin Shi Huang are only small notes on the cards next to them, in today's India, there are still people who are willing to use their flesh and blood to explain the term "slave society" in the most modern way. What is more chilling than cruelty and brutality is ignorance.

However, there is obviously no need to tell Amisa about this. Anyway, she can't get in touch with these low-level things, so why bother to ruin her mood? So Shakru put his arm around her waist and said, "Okay, let's not think about these past things, let's go inside the castle and take a look."

Entering the city gate, you can see the main body of the castle. The excellence of Mehrangarh Castle lies in the fact that it is the most comprehensive and complex of the many ancient castles in India.

First of all, it consists of many annexes, such as the Pearl Palace (akhana). These palaces themselves are exquisite art treasures, whether ceilings, doors, windows, walls, all of which are in various shapes and colors.

Secondly, since the castle was built entirely with the help of the mountain, although the appearance is seamless, the various palaces inside are on different planes and connected by corridor stairs. This architectural model of round outside and square inside is still worthy of investigation and study by architects.

Several special exhibition rooms. The sedan chair museum collects various genuine sedan chairs that the princes took when they left the palace. The most distinctive one is the elephant sedan chair, which is placed on the back of an elephant when riding, and can seat two people in front and back. The sedan chair is decorated with lion patterns. I don’t know whether it is because lions can defeat elephants, or because the princes compare themselves to the king of the jungle and the king of troubled times.

The Royal Art Museum exhibits exquisite ancient Indian paintings. Most of them are from the hands of court painters, and the content is mainly about royal life, such as horse racing, archery, ball games, night banquets, etc. The painting method is similar to the ancient Chinese fine brushwork painting, with delicate and neat brushstrokes. All the pigments are extracted from natural plants or rocks, which can remain bright for hundreds of years.

The meeting hall. A series of five built-in platforms can be seen above the far corner of the hall. When the princes received foreign envoys or discussed state affairs with their ministers, the concubines could watch and listen from these distant platforms. After the meeting, they would discuss family affairs, state affairs and world affairs with the princes. This is similar to the Chinese practice of ruling behind the curtain.

There is a fort at the highest point of the castle, and dozens of cannons guard this blue city with hundreds of years of ups and downs. Looking at the city from here, it is found that the title of Blue City is much more worthy of the name than Pink City. The blue world is even a little dazzling under the afternoon sun.

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