India revisited . per, filled with jasmine,and the Mui-i-Mubdrak, a hair of Muhammads mous-tache. You may turn aside a little, to see the ruinsof Indrapat, the ancient Indraprastha, capital of KingYudhisthira of the Mah§,bh&rata, the tomb of AzizahKokal Tash, foster-brother of Akbar the Great, andalso that of the poet Khosrau, whom Saadi himselfvisited for the sake of his Majnun and Leila. Ee-turning to the Ajmir Gate road the observatory ofJey Singh is passed, exactly resembling that at Jey-pore, with massive gnomons and astrolabes of on rises the handsome monument of SafdarJu
India revisited . per, filled with jasmine,and the Mui-i-Mubdrak, a hair of Muhammads mous-tache. You may turn aside a little, to see the ruinsof Indrapat, the ancient Indraprastha, capital of KingYudhisthira of the Mah§,bh&rata, the tomb of AzizahKokal Tash, foster-brother of Akbar the Great, andalso that of the poet Khosrau, whom Saadi himselfvisited for the sake of his Majnun and Leila. Ee-turning to the Ajmir Gate road the observatory ofJey Singh is passed, exactly resembling that at Jey-pore, with massive gnomons and astrolabes of on rises the handsome monument of SafdarJung, who fought with the Eohillas, and, being defeated,took the fatal step of calling in the Marathas. Allthis district, indeed, near and far, is covered withruined mosques and tombs, some in marble, somein sandstone, some of both materials mixed j so thatwherever the eye falls it lights upon domes, cupolas,? arches, and columns, showing amidst the groves, ortowering above them, a very wilderness of vanished. THE CAMP OF EXERCISE AT DELHI. 183 pride and splendour. There must be hundreds ofstately edifices thus scattered over the face of thisSouthern plain, and beneath their ruins lie the remainsof five or six successive cities, for here is the grave ofdynasties, the very Golgotha of bygone empires. Through their crumbling relics you arrive at last atthe group of ancient buildings in the midst of whichthe Kutub Minar lifts its lofty beauty to the sky, apillar of fluted masonry two hundred and forty feethigh, embellished at each of its tapering stories withinscriptions in the Tughra character of Arabic, whichis so ornamental. The second story of the marvellouspillar is completely belted with the Asma-el-husna,the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of Allah. Thethree lowest stories of this pillar of victory are madeof a warm red sandstone, the upper ones of whiteUlwur marble. Sultan Altamsh completed it in1230 No one can imagine the effect of thisconical column, with its deep flutin
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