. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . tbeautiful in India. It is lined entirely with marble, veined withwhite, blue, and gray. At each corner there is an octagonaltower. In the centre of its court there is a marble tank. Amarble cloister, supported by fifty - eight slender pillars, runsaround three sides of the court. The central doorway is open,but the others are closed by screens of marble lattice-work. The most remarkable place in the immediate neighborhood ofAgra is Sikandra, the burial-place of the great Akbar. Thevery gateway is a triumph of architectural skill. At e
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . tbeautiful in India. It is lined entirely with marble, veined withwhite, blue, and gray. At each corner there is an octagonaltower. In the centre of its court there is a marble tank. Amarble cloister, supported by fifty - eight slender pillars, runsaround three sides of the court. The central doorway is open,but the others are closed by screens of marble lattice-work. The most remarkable place in the immediate neighborhood ofAgra is Sikandra, the burial-place of the great Akbar. Thevery gateway is a triumph of architectural skill. At each cornerof it there rises a white minaret, sixty feet high. The tomb ofAkbar is surrounded by others, to various members of his whole structure above and around this imperial dust is morelike a palace than a tomb. Corridors, pavilions, marble lattice-work, and all the architectural devices known to the Indianarchitects of three centuries ago, are employed to perpetuatethe memory of the great builder of the Mogul throne. ?FtmMmlntimmf h ill.
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