BAGH ke LUCKNOW (Tahkhana ke Dargah ke)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

In case it exists, there is a fabulous tahkhana or underground palace (note 1) beneath an unidentified dargah (note 2) in an unspecified town (note 3), where, upon descending steps (note 4), one passes and emerald darwaza (gate; keyword: exitcave) leading to a paradisical garden (note 5) where a legendary tree bows its branches to the earth with the weight and number of its burden of fruit of an extraordinary flavour and quality unknown among inhabitants of the hither world --except for two persons of which one was a legendary Vizier (royal advisor, spin doctor) who collected one specimen, and the other was a despotic King, who dreamed of it and got one procured but ate it (HASSAN ALI 1832 letter 24).In case it exists, there is a fabulous tahkhana or underground palace (note 1) beneath an unidentified dargah (note 2) in an unspecified town (note 3), where, upon descending steps (note 4), one passes and emerald darwaza (gate; keyword: exitcave) leading to a paradisical garden (note 5) where a legendary tree bows its branches to the earth with the weight and number of its burden of fruit of an extraordinary flavour and quality unknown among inhabitants of the hither world --except for two persons of which one was a legendary Vizier (royal advisor, spin doctor) who collected one specimen, and the other was a despotic King, who dreamed of it and got one procured but ate it (HASSAN ALI 1832 letter 24).