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540 INDIAN .SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. Book VII.
CHAPTER VJ.
M A L W A.
CONTEXTS.
The Great Mosque at Mandu.
CHRONOLOGY.
Sultan Dilawar Gliori.......
Su'.tan llosliang Ghori......
Ghazni Klian.........
ftffthmud Khan, ootemp. liana Ktaumbo
A.d. 1401
1405
1432
Sul an Ghias ud-diu.....
Sultan Malnmid II......
Mahva incorporated with Gujerut.
■-annexed by Akbar . . . .
A.d. 140!)
1512
1534
156S
of Chittorc
1435
The (iliori dynasty of Mandu attained independence about the same
time as the Sharkis of Jaunpore—Sultan Dilawar, who governed the
province from a.d. 1387, having assumed the title of Shah in a.d.
1401. It is, however, to his successor Hoshang, that Mandu owes its
greatness and all the finest of its buildings. The state continued
to prosper as one of the independent Moslem principalities till a.d.
1534, when it was incorporated with Gujerat, and was finally annexed
to Akbar's dominion in a.d. 156S.
The original capital of the state was Dhar, an old Hindu city,
twenty miles northward of Mandu, to which the seat of government
was transferred after it became independent Though an old and
venerated city of the Hindus, Dhar contains no evidence of its former
greatness, except two mosques erected wholly of Jaina remains. The
principal of these, the Junnna Musjid, has a courtyard measuring
III-.' ft. north and south, by 131 ft. in the other direction. The
mosque itself is 11!) ft. by 40 ft. 6 in., and its roof is supported by
sixty-four pillars of Jaina architecture, 12 ft. G in. in height, and all
of them more or less richly carved, and the three domes that adorn it
are also of purely Hindu form. The court is surrounded by an arcade
containing forty-four columns, 10 ft. in height, but equally rich in
carving. There is here no screen of arches, as at the Kutub or at
Ajmir. Internally nothing is visible but Hindu pillars, and, except
for their disposition and the prayer-niches that adoni the western
wall, it might be taken for a Hindu building. In this instance,
however, there seems no doubt that there is nothing in eitu. The
pillars have been brought from desecrated temples in the town, and
CHAPTER VJ.
M A L W A.
CONTEXTS.
The Great Mosque at Mandu.
CHRONOLOGY.
Sultan Dilawar Gliori.......
Su'.tan llosliang Ghori......
Ghazni Klian.........
ftffthmud Khan, ootemp. liana Ktaumbo
A.d. 1401
1405
1432
Sul an Ghias ud-diu.....
Sultan Malnmid II......
Mahva incorporated with Gujerut.
■-annexed by Akbar . . . .
A.d. 140!)
1512
1534
156S
of Chittorc
1435
The (iliori dynasty of Mandu attained independence about the same
time as the Sharkis of Jaunpore—Sultan Dilawar, who governed the
province from a.d. 1387, having assumed the title of Shah in a.d.
1401. It is, however, to his successor Hoshang, that Mandu owes its
greatness and all the finest of its buildings. The state continued
to prosper as one of the independent Moslem principalities till a.d.
1534, when it was incorporated with Gujerat, and was finally annexed
to Akbar's dominion in a.d. 156S.
The original capital of the state was Dhar, an old Hindu city,
twenty miles northward of Mandu, to which the seat of government
was transferred after it became independent Though an old and
venerated city of the Hindus, Dhar contains no evidence of its former
greatness, except two mosques erected wholly of Jaina remains. The
principal of these, the Junnna Musjid, has a courtyard measuring
III-.' ft. north and south, by 131 ft. in the other direction. The
mosque itself is 11!) ft. by 40 ft. 6 in., and its roof is supported by
sixty-four pillars of Jaina architecture, 12 ft. G in. in height, and all
of them more or less richly carved, and the three domes that adorn it
are also of purely Hindu form. The court is surrounded by an arcade
containing forty-four columns, 10 ft. in height, but equally rich in
carving. There is here no screen of arches, as at the Kutub or at
Ajmir. Internally nothing is visible but Hindu pillars, and, except
for their disposition and the prayer-niches that adoni the western
wall, it might be taken for a Hindu building. In this instance,
however, there seems no doubt that there is nothing in eitu. The
pillars have been brought from desecrated temples in the town, and