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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

cal Paradise … and found it in… India (Dravidia). He saw a picturesque valley with
striking plants, animals and birds. It indeed had a border in the form of a horseshoe-
shaped chine (the word “paradise” means in Persian “a stone swell which surrounds a
garden”). The river Son which flowed from the valley also had an obvious border in
the form of an even line of rapids (Fig. 1), beyond which even the colour of water
was different.

Everything emphasized that this landscape was not of this world. There were
stone gates (in the east side of the valley) at the confluence of the rivers. Near the
gates there was an enormous statue with a sword. (It is impossible not to remember

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