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 Soaring
in glittering splendour, the Marble Rocks at Bhedaghat rise to a hundred
feet on either side of the Narmada. The serene loveliness of the scene
is one of cool quiet, the sunlight sparkling on the marble-white
pinnacles and casting dappled shadows on the pellucid waters. These
white rocks with views of black and dark green volcanic seams are truly
majestic, and produce a magical effect on moonlit nights.
The holy river flows by
tranquilly flanked by the towering cliffs which reflect in it like a
mirror the changing moods of nature. A little distance away, it becomes
turbulent as it plunges in a mighty water fall known as Dhuandhar.
In his Highlands of
Central India Captain J. Forsyth speaks eloquently about the infinitely
varied beauty of the rocks: "the eye never wearies of the ... effect
produced by the broken and reflected sunlight, now glancing from a
pinnacle of snow-white marble reared against the deep blue of the sky as
from a point of silver, touching here and there with bright lights the
prominence of the middle heights and again losing itself in the soft
bluish grays of their recesses. . . Here and there the white saccharine
limestone is seamed by veins of dark green or black volcanic rock; a
contrast which only enhances like a setting of jet, the purity of the
surrounding marble."
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