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| Album: By Country | By Date | India | May 2001 | < Prev Image | The Red Fort and Old Delhi | Next Image > | ||||
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| Travelogue: By Country | By Date | India | May 2001 | |||||
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Looking into the Diwan-i-Khas, the Hall of Private Audiences. The centerpiece of this elegant but modestly scaled hall was the Peacock Throne. The solid gold throne had figures of peacocks standing behind it, their beautiful colors made from countless inlaid percious stones. Between the peacocks was a parrot carved from a single emerald. Carved on the walls is the couplet, "If there is a paradise on earth it is this, it is this, it is this. |
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