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Ashok knelt before me on my cushions in the chhatri.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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We sat in an open chhatri pavilion, the marble still warm from the day.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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We sat in an open _chhatri_ pavilion, the marble still warm from the day.
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Ashok knelt before me on my cushions in the _chhatri_.
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Her husband was at a world-wide congress of ball-bearings manufacturers in Gothenburg, Sweden, and in his absence she invited Gibreel into her apartment of stone lattices from Jaisalmer and carved wooden handrails from Kcralan palaces and a stone Mughal chhatri or cupola turned into a whirlpool bath; while she poured him French champagne she leaned against marbled walls and felt the cool veins of the stone against her back.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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Dharaṇendra spread his many hoods over the head of the Arhata and the Yakshṅî Padmâvatî held a white umbrella (_śveta chhatri_) over him for protection.
On the Indian Sect of the Jainas Johann Georg B��hler 1867
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They were close to the promontory of the tombs, and had looked straight into the chhatri of the Rajah’s father through an opening in the trees.
A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924
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