Stupas - M.P.

Over a day we had gone from Gurgaon to Allahabad and into Madhya Pradesh, led by the yellow-green farmlands beyond our chilled windows. Where we were led was called Deur Kothar. Not much for me to understand at the time / mahua. Wanted to be sitting inside one of these things though..

"Monasteries hewn from the mountainside" is what I later read.


And a transliteration of an inscription:

भ ग व तो बु ध

उ त र मि त्रो उ त र मि त्र स अ

भ ड्‍ भ ड्‍ स आ ते वा सि ना दि नु

उ पा स क स आ ते वा सि स व ज य स व

ध म द वे न के क डी के न ब स ति ये

उ स पि तो भं भो आ आ च रि ये न क सि

>>Afzal Guru was hanged today -- the train lugged us back into Delhi very close to the time. Things almost always happen somewhere else.