20 PICTURES AND PEN-PICTURES

Anarkali to be cast from his harem and to be buried.
alive. Many years later, Jehangir caused to be inscribed
on the tomb he built for her, the words: <( Ah! could I
behold the face of my beloved once more, I would give
thanks to God until the day of resurection." Jehangir
must have been a sentimentalist, for be was, probably,
not as love-lorn as the inscription suggests; his queen,
Nur Jehan, ruled by his side, both well-loved and a
power in the Mughal empire for many long years.

Nur Jehan planned a garden for her own use, at
some distance from the fort of Lahore. Heart's Delight
(Dilkhush) she called it. Jehangir, in 1627, was laid to
rest in this very garden in the beautiful mausoleum of
Shahdara.

Some miles from this city lie the famous gardens of
Shalimar, laid out by the order of Shah Jehan and created
by his celebrated engineer, Alt Mardan, in the seventeenth
century. The Shalimar of Lahore is a copy of the gardens
of the same name built by Jehangir, in far away Kashmir,

In different vein to the city of former times is the
Lahore which has grown in the last century into an
elegant city. The Lower and Upper Mall runs like an
artery through this modern capital. Distinctive from
the monuments of Mughal times or Sikh history are the
buildings that lie near or to either side of the Mall: the
Punjab University, the Museum, the Chief Courts,
banking and business houses of local, Indian, or foreign
origin; the imposing building of the Legislative As-
sembly, the extensive grounds of Government House
and Lahore's Lawrence Gardens; Salons de beanie^
newspaper offices, and book-sellers and newsagents
purveying journals from every parfc of the globe.