Life's Handicap
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:35:29Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:35:29Z |
| dc.date.created | 1891 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3282 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3282 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3282 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
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| dc.title | Life's Handicap |
| dc.type | Text |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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In Northern India stood a monastery called The Chubara of Dhunni Bhagat. No one remembered who or what Dhunni Bhagat had been. He had lived his life, made a little money and spent it all, as every good Hindu should do, on a work of piety — the Chubara. That was full of brick cells, gaily painted with the figures of Gods and kings and elephants, where worn-out priests could sit and meditate on the latter end of things; the paths were brick paved, and the naked feet of thousands had worn them into gutters. Clumps of mangoes sprouted from between the bricks; great pipal trees overhung the well-windlass that whined all day; and hosts of parrots tore through the trees. Crows and squirrels were tame in that place, for they knew that never a priest would touch them.
The wandering mendicants, charm-sellers, and holy vagabonds for a hundred miles round used to make the Chubara their place of call and rest. Mahomedan, Sikh, and Hindu mixed equally under the trees. They were old men, and . . .
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