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INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. Book VII.
plan, being each of them squares
306. Plan of Tomb of Malinn'ul Begurra, near
Kaira. Scale 00 ft. to 1 in.
about 150 ft., and the mosque-
front covered with five domes
and the screen-wall with three
arches each.1
The most beautiful, however,
of these provincial examples is
the tomb at Mahmudabad, of its
class one of the most beautiful
in India (Woodcut No. 306). 11
was erected by the same Mah-
mud Begurra, a.d. 1484, who
erected the tomb of Kutub-ul-
Alum at Butwa, described above
(Woodcut No. 304), and is said
to have been designed by the
same architect. This is, how-
ever, a far more successful ex-
ample, and though small—it
is only 94 ft. square, exclusive
of the porch—there is a sim-
Tomb of Mihinud Btgurra, near Kaira. (From a Photograph.)
1 l'lans of these are in Mi' Hope's work.
INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. Book VII.
plan, being each of them squares
306. Plan of Tomb of Malinn'ul Begurra, near
Kaira. Scale 00 ft. to 1 in.
about 150 ft., and the mosque-
front covered with five domes
and the screen-wall with three
arches each.1
The most beautiful, however,
of these provincial examples is
the tomb at Mahmudabad, of its
class one of the most beautiful
in India (Woodcut No. 306). 11
was erected by the same Mah-
mud Begurra, a.d. 1484, who
erected the tomb of Kutub-ul-
Alum at Butwa, described above
(Woodcut No. 304), and is said
to have been designed by the
same architect. This is, how-
ever, a far more successful ex-
ample, and though small—it
is only 94 ft. square, exclusive
of the porch—there is a sim-
Tomb of Mihinud Btgurra, near Kaira. (From a Photograph.)
1 l'lans of these are in Mi' Hope's work.