RAJPUT REALMS 31

filled with romance. There hangs the sword, huge
id heavy, that Eao Bikaji wielded with his powerful
IB—Bikaji, the builder of Bikanir.

Camels, people, oxen and cows, elephants and horses,
ey are all there in the market-place; the desert folk
e busy in their city. The purple heath and the
ravan are no longer in the focus of the eye, instead it

the picturesque market-place filled with people in
lourful costumes, and narrow streets designed to keep
ray the torrid sun.

Be it in a street scene or in the market-place, be it

cities of palaces and forbidding forts or in the desert
bste, .colour is ever present as in the many images of a
leidoscope; colour that brightens life arid landscapes
Eajput realms.