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Samarkand, Bokhara, Delhi, and, Agra, and, being a very useful
pattern, it is to be found in the borders of the best Persian
carpets and manuscripts.
Ala-uddin, who was a Turk of the Khilji tribe, and ruled
, 1295-1315 built not only the gateway
* a-uf J?S enlarge' mentioned above but planned an enor-
ment of the mosque. . . f J,
mous enlargement of the mosque, with
a new minar, of which only a small part stands, and a college
which enclosed his tomb. It seems surprising, that there is
only a difference of 90 years between the so-called tomb of
Iltutmish and Ala-uddin’s gateway. But the latter is in fact
a more developed work. While Iltutmish put tire different
ornaments rather arbitrarily in their places, the ornamentation
inside and outside Ala-uddin’s gateway is very suitably
arranged. It possesses a cupola, supported by a squinch-
storey, the squinches of which are four-fold. The building is
an organised structure, not a composition of flatly decorated
walls.
This tendency, to understand a building as a three-di-
mensional work, a real structure, develop-
The mosque Jammat furfher. Ala-uddin’s son, Khizr
(Khusrau) Khan built most probably at
Delhi the mausoleum of the saint Nizam-uddin,1 who died in
1325. It was used as a mosque under the name of Jammat
Khan. Firuz Shah enlarged it by two siderooms in 1353. The
original room is a central square building bearing a structural
cupola over a squinch storey. Quite similar to the central
room of Ala-uddin’s gateway, it is an improvement in so far
as the decoration is more reduced and commanded by the
fabric.
The Arhai-din-Ka-Jhonpra-mosque at Ajmer is of the
same type as that of old Delhi.2 It was
The Arhai-din-Ka changed from a Jain college into a
Am1 mosclue at mosque, even greater and more im-
portant than the first one in Delhi, the
exterior measurement being 172 ft. by 264 ft. According to an
inscription it appears that the mosque proper was built by
Qutb-ud-din in the year 1200.3 It is quite likely that this
was done in two and a half days, as the name indicates,
1. Archaeological Survey of India. Memoir No. 19. Calcutta. 1926.
2. Cunningham Archaeological Reports Vol. II. p. 261.
3. Edward Thomas, The Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Delhi.
London. 1871. p. 25.
Samarkand, Bokhara, Delhi, and, Agra, and, being a very useful
pattern, it is to be found in the borders of the best Persian
carpets and manuscripts.
Ala-uddin, who was a Turk of the Khilji tribe, and ruled
, 1295-1315 built not only the gateway
* a-uf J?S enlarge' mentioned above but planned an enor-
ment of the mosque. . . f J,
mous enlargement of the mosque, with
a new minar, of which only a small part stands, and a college
which enclosed his tomb. It seems surprising, that there is
only a difference of 90 years between the so-called tomb of
Iltutmish and Ala-uddin’s gateway. But the latter is in fact
a more developed work. While Iltutmish put tire different
ornaments rather arbitrarily in their places, the ornamentation
inside and outside Ala-uddin’s gateway is very suitably
arranged. It possesses a cupola, supported by a squinch-
storey, the squinches of which are four-fold. The building is
an organised structure, not a composition of flatly decorated
walls.
This tendency, to understand a building as a three-di-
mensional work, a real structure, develop-
The mosque Jammat furfher. Ala-uddin’s son, Khizr
(Khusrau) Khan built most probably at
Delhi the mausoleum of the saint Nizam-uddin,1 who died in
1325. It was used as a mosque under the name of Jammat
Khan. Firuz Shah enlarged it by two siderooms in 1353. The
original room is a central square building bearing a structural
cupola over a squinch storey. Quite similar to the central
room of Ala-uddin’s gateway, it is an improvement in so far
as the decoration is more reduced and commanded by the
fabric.
The Arhai-din-Ka-Jhonpra-mosque at Ajmer is of the
same type as that of old Delhi.2 It was
The Arhai-din-Ka changed from a Jain college into a
Am1 mosclue at mosque, even greater and more im-
portant than the first one in Delhi, the
exterior measurement being 172 ft. by 264 ft. According to an
inscription it appears that the mosque proper was built by
Qutb-ud-din in the year 1200.3 It is quite likely that this
was done in two and a half days, as the name indicates,
1. Archaeological Survey of India. Memoir No. 19. Calcutta. 1926.
2. Cunningham Archaeological Reports Vol. II. p. 261.
3. Edward Thomas, The Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Delhi.
London. 1871. p. 25.