Both of the cenotaphs are embellished with inlaid and carved Arabic inscriptions.
In the royal cemetery, three miles to the north, rows of beautiful but neglected cenotaphs mark the spots where the remains of each of some 300 rajahs were consumed with their widows.
But both cenotaphs are inlaid with flowers made of costly gems, and with the ever graceful oleander scroll.
The two cenotaphs in the center of the exquisite enclosure have no carving except the plain Kalamdan or oblong pen-box on the tomb of Emperor Shah Jehan.
But laws and customs, from which the animating spirit of national opinion and sentiment has passed, are but the cenotaphs of dead forms embalmed in vain.
Subsequently, tribes and states, that had shared indeed the final battle or the previous skirmishes, but without the glory of a loss of life, erected cenotaphs to imaginary dead in that illustrious burial-field.
They erected their cenotaphs in the plain, at some distance from the hills, and they chose a form which did not essentially differ from that of the great temples on the opposite bank of the Nile.
These are royal chapels erected in connection with the royal tombs in their neighbourhood, they are cenotaphs filled with the memories of the great Theban princes, and with representations of their exploits.
Within are the cenotaphs of Isaac and Rebecca, supposed to stand above their true graves in the cavern.
Cenotaphs like those in the present building are mentioned as early as 700 A.
The king and queen were already on thecenotaphs when Tirant came in completely covered with armor, except for his head.
And they spent that delicious night with little thought about those who were lying on the cenotaphs for burial.
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