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one known as the Black Pagoda, at Calcutta, and many others all
through Lower Bengal; but hardly any so well worthy of illustration
as this one at Kantonuggur.

Amritsur.

One other example may serve for the present to complete what we
have at present to say regarding the temples of modern India. This
time, however, it is no longer an idol-shrine, but a monotheistic place
of prayer, and differs, consequently, most essentially from those we

The OoHlen Temple In the Holy Tank at Amrltaur.

have been describing. The religion of the Sikhs appears to have
been a protest alike against the gross idolatry of the Hindus and
the inflexible monotheism of the Moslems. It does not, however, seem
that temples or gorgeous ceremonial formed any part of the religious
system propounded by its founders. Beading the ' Granth' and prayer
are what were insisted upon, but even then not necessarily in public.
We, in consequence, know nothing of their temples, if they have any;
but Bunjeet Singh was too emulous of the wealth of his Hindu and
Moslem subjects in this respect not to desire to rival their magni-
ficence, and consequently we have the Golden Temple in the Holy