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At other points begging posturers sat by the wayside, twist- ing their limbs into all manner of unnatural posi- tions, while everywhere drums were beating, shrill reed instruments piping, and a myriad of tongues chattering in wild confusion. This feast, which lasts ten days, is sacred to the memory of the grandson of the Prophet, who perished in the struggle for the succession to the caliphate of Islam. Gaudy shrines, made of tinsel and paper, designed like the tomb of the martyred Hosein, are ...carried in the parade, or symbolical funeral, to the cemetery, where they are buried like the dead, amid demonstrations of rage, triumph, and lamentation. Agra is essentially a Mogul city, and nowhere are the wealth and splendor of that oppressive dy- nasty evinced to a greater degree than in its sump- tuous monuments. Here Akbar located his capital and built the imposing citadel which overhangs the Jumna. Within its crenellated walls, a mile and a half in circuit, stand the architectural gems, some in a condition of ruin, which attest the magnificence of the imperial court.
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