Report for the Year 1871-72Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1874 - 265 páginas |
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Agra Ahmad Akbar ancient appears arches Bagh band bases beautiful Bhateswar brackets breadth bricks building built called central centre chambers close colonnade coloured construction corner cornice Delhi distance dome east eastern enclosure entire evidently existed extension face fact feet figure formed fort foundations four front garden gate gateway ground hand head height Hindu inches inner inscription Jahan Jahangir Khan Khera king Kutb length lower marble Masjid mausoleum measured mentioned miles Minar Muhammadan noticed octagonal original ornamental outer palace period pillars Plate platform portion position present probably projecting raised Raja red sandstone remains river road roof runs sculptured seen Shah side situated space square standing stone storey structure style supported surrounded tank temple thickness tomb towers upper village wall western whole
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Página 118 - ... on earth. Who is he that can intercede with him, but through his good pleasure? He knoweth that which is past, and that which is to come unto them, and they shall not comprehend anything of his knowledge, but so far as he pleaseth. His throne is extended over heaven and earth, and the preservation of both is no burden unto him. He is the high, the mighty.
Página viii - ... through so as to leave the inner core of rough stone quite visible. Now, this belt forms no part of Mr. Beglar's geometrical series, and as I am quite satisfied that it was an integral part of the original ornamentation, I repudiate the whole scheme of recondite Hindu design as a mere fanciful theory. But on this subject of the ornamentation of the Kutb Minar we now possess the most decisive evidence that it is not of Hindu origin in the Tarikh-i-Alai of Amir Khusru, a contemporary of Alauddin...
Página 170 - 1058" (AD. 1650). The great peculiarity of this Masjid consists in its three great full-bottomed domes without necks, shaped like balloons reversed, and built of red sandstone, with zigzag bands of white marble circling round them.
Página 122 - It is now entirely destroyed, having been blown up with gunpowder by the Government about forty years ago (some say because the place had become a rendezvous for thieves), and gates and walls and towers of the outer enclosure were pulled down, and the materials taken away to build barracks in the cantonments with. The mausoleum itself, however, was too tough, too hard a nut to crack, for that purpose, and it was therefore left as it is, after being blown up, — a huge shapeless heap of massive fragments...
Página 221 - Conversing with the principal disciple of a celebrated Jain, priest of Gwalior, about ancient cities, he related to me an anecdote of a poor man, about thirty-five years ago, having discovered amidst the few fragments left of Surapura, on the Yamuna, a bit of (what he deemed) glass ; showing it to a silversmith, he sold it for one rupee ; the purchaser carried his prize to Agra, and sold it for 5000, for it was a diamond.
Página 64 - Beglar says : point and emphasize some constructive feature ; every feature there has an office to perform, and performs it well ; it is emphatically a structure possessing harmony. The Alai Darwaza, on the contrary, has little of architectural ornament, and owes its beauty more to the carvings executed by Hindu workmen, the last expiring effort of Hindu art in Delhi, than to any remarkable harmony of arrangement. Indeed, on d priori grounds, we should expect this want of appreciation of truthful...
Página 64 - ... admiration for harmony : and this is precisely what has happened, for, with all the aid of elaborate ornamentation, carved, be it remembered, by Hindu hands, they have not produced any structure which commands admiration independent of mere beauty of ornamentation (for which the Hindu workman deserves credit), or of sheer greatness of size, and as soon as they attempted to build without the aid of Hindu workmen, they produced what certainly is grand from sheer massiveness, but what is utterly...
Página 200 - This building is now in a totally ruinous and dilapidated condition, only some of its towers and a portion of the empty shell of the 'walls being now standing. Nevertheless it is still decidedly the largest, loftiest, and noblest looking ruin about Agra, and well worthy of a visit. HAVAILI ASIP KHAN. This building was standing in a perfectly entire and habitable condition, until the mutiny and insurrection of 1857, when it was blown...
Página i - Masjid as it now stands than his superior officer will allow. General Cunningham observes : " In the following report Mr. Beglar admits that the pillars have been more or less re-arranged, but he contends that they occupy their original positions in the colonnade of a single Hindu temple, and that their present height is exactly that of the original Hindu colonnade. Consistently with this view, he is obliged to condemn the record of the Mahomedan builder of the Masjid regarding the destruction of...
Página 73 - The fagade of the masjid and gateway were also ornamented with coloured medallions and carved stone flowers, the colors used were blue, yellow, red, purple, white, green, black, and grey. It has one central dome on a low neck, and very peculiar pinnacle, greatly resembling that of Kila Kona Masjid. The walls of the masjid are plumb, but the towers slope, and it has great projecting eaves in front as in Moth ki Masjid. A peculiarity of this Masjid were its cloisters.