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leisure to think really about the matter, they abandoned entirely all
tendency to copy Hindu forms or Hindu details, but set to work to
carry out a pointed-arched, or domical style of their own, and did
it with singular success.1
The Jumma Musjid, which is one of the earlier regular buildings
of the city, was commenced by Ali Adil Shah (a.D. 1557-1579), and,
though continued by liis successors on the same plan, was never
completely finished, the fourth side of the courtyard with its great
A
317. Han of Jumma Musjid, BQunr. (From a Urawing by A. Gumming, C.E.)
Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.
gateway not having been even commenced when the dynasty was
overthrown. Even as it is, it is one of the finest mosques in India.
As will be seen from the plan (Woodcut ~No. 317), it would have
1 Bijapur lias been singularly for- I drawings yet made in India. These were
tunate, not only in the extent, but in the ' reduced by photography, and published
mode in which it has been illustrated. by me at the expense of the Government
A set of drawings—plans, elevations, and , in 1859, in a folio volume with seventy-
details—were made by a Mr. A. Camming, four plates, and afterwards in 1866 at the
C.E., under the superintendence of Capt. expense of the Committee for the Pul>li-
Hart, Bombay Engineers, which, for J cation of the Antiquities of Western India,
beauty of drawing and accuracy of de- ! illustrated hither by photographic views
tail, are unsurpassed by any architectural taken on the spot by Col. Biggs. R. A.
BIJAPUR.
559
leisure to think really about the matter, they abandoned entirely all
tendency to copy Hindu forms or Hindu details, but set to work to
carry out a pointed-arched, or domical style of their own, and did
it with singular success.1
The Jumma Musjid, which is one of the earlier regular buildings
of the city, was commenced by Ali Adil Shah (a.D. 1557-1579), and,
though continued by liis successors on the same plan, was never
completely finished, the fourth side of the courtyard with its great
A
317. Han of Jumma Musjid, BQunr. (From a Urawing by A. Gumming, C.E.)
Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.
gateway not having been even commenced when the dynasty was
overthrown. Even as it is, it is one of the finest mosques in India.
As will be seen from the plan (Woodcut ~No. 317), it would have
1 Bijapur lias been singularly for- I drawings yet made in India. These were
tunate, not only in the extent, but in the ' reduced by photography, and published
mode in which it has been illustrated. by me at the expense of the Government
A set of drawings—plans, elevations, and , in 1859, in a folio volume with seventy-
details—were made by a Mr. A. Camming, four plates, and afterwards in 1866 at the
C.E., under the superintendence of Capt. expense of the Committee for the Pul>li-
Hart, Bombay Engineers, which, for J cation of the Antiquities of Western India,
beauty of drawing and accuracy of de- ! illustrated hither by photographic views
tail, are unsurpassed by any architectural taken on the spot by Col. Biggs. R. A.