The Splendour that was ʾInd: A Survey of Indian Culture and Civilisation (from the Earliest Times to the Death of Emperor Aurangzeb)D. B. Taraporevala, 1930 - 236 pages |
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Page 152
... pillars behind the altar are plain octagonal piers , without either base or capital , and the four under the entrance gallery differ considerably from those at the sides . The sculptures on the capital supply the place usually occupied ...
... pillars behind the altar are plain octagonal piers , without either base or capital , and the four under the entrance gallery differ considerably from those at the sides . The sculptures on the capital supply the place usually occupied ...
Page 180
... pillars is of the same model and ornamentation as the Hindu scheme . The light and graceful minarets , which once crowned the sides of the mosque , have been destroyed by an earthquake of about a hundred years ago . But the pillars ...
... pillars is of the same model and ornamentation as the Hindu scheme . The light and graceful minarets , which once crowned the sides of the mosque , have been destroyed by an earthquake of about a hundred years ago . But the pillars ...
Page 191
... pillars of Delhi and of Dhar , of which a great geologist wrote : - " It is not many years since the production of such a pillar would have been an impossibility in the largest foundries of the world , and even now there are ...
... pillars of Delhi and of Dhar , of which a great geologist wrote : - " It is not many years since the production of such a pillar would have been an impossibility in the largest foundries of the world , and even now there are ...
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