“Seddhu's house at the Taxali Gate is two-story, with four carved windows made of old brown wood and a flat roof. He can be identified by the five red handprints arranged in the shape of the five of diamonds on the lime-whitened space between the upper windows. Bhagwan Dass, a shopkeeper, and a man who said that he earned his bread by carving seals, lived on the ground floor with a whole horde of women, servants, acquaintances and tenants who rented separate rooms ... "Translation: E. Kiselev