CHAPTER XLVII
RAWALPINDI-KASAKAGOD
Ramdas on the day fixed departed from Kasaragod
again for Northern Irnliu with Janardan I'ant. Reaching
Madras and again gtayiug with Dr. (}, H. Kutru for a day,
they entrained for Nagpur. At. NHKIHIT they remained fov
two days with Kullo Sadashivwo. Thou travelling further
north they arrived once more at Jluuwi. Thin tmioho stayed
here for about ten days. Here ho metal HO Hwami Nirbhaya-
nand and Purnanand.
On the due date Ramdas departed with .Janardan Pant
straight for Rawalpindi, Tn Rawalpindi ho wan UH usual put
up at Pandit Jewandus'. Iliu hull. waMhovt. He wufl eager
to finish off the Kashmir trip and thon, on return, jspoud a
few days in Rawalpindi. Ho in throo or four dayB ho and
Janardan Pant found theniHolveB undor th<^ hospitable roof
of Pandit Janakinath. Janakinuth and IUH family were as
before all love and kindness. Pawlit Amarnuth wağ also
there at the time. His stay in Srinaf?ur thin tinu^ WUH only
for ten days. Hero a word about Junardnn Pant would not
be out of place. He expected that by keeping (Company with
Ramdas he would have a happy time of it, hut hia experi-
ence wa@ quite the reverse. His ignorawto of tho English
language was for him a great handicap, Ramdun conversed
with the friends, at every placo he viBited, in English.
Besides, being nurtured and bred in the orthodox atmos-
phere, Janardan Pant found tho wuyn of tho people, in the
midst of whom he was forced to live, strangely unpalatable*
He had come to Srinagar expecting to Bee in that land of
Pandits an ideal state of things. But his disillusionment
must have been shocking. The stinking air of the city
and the ill-ventilated mud houses of tho Pandits, and the
meat eating and xmtidy habits of tho people wore things