Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900 . inscription, to aheight of more than 240 feet. The first three storiesare fluted and built of red sandstone, but the uppertwo stories are faced chiefly with white marble. Theshaking which it got by an earthquake in 1803threw down the cupola and disarranged the battle-ments and balconies, besides giving somewhat of theappearance of a lilt to the whole structure. Butit remains one of the pieces of building best worthyof an admiring visit in all that part of India. Nea
Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900 . inscription, to aheight of more than 240 feet. The first three storiesare fluted and built of red sandstone, but the uppertwo stories are faced chiefly with white marble. Theshaking which it got by an earthquake in 1803threw down the cupola and disarranged the battle-ments and balconies, besides giving somewhat of theappearance of a lilt to the whole structure. Butit remains one of the pieces of building best worthyof an admiring visit in all that part of India. Near the Kutb Minar are the ruins of a magnifi-cent mosque, which stands on the platform of an oldHindu temple, and the courtyard of which is sur-rounded by a mixture of Buddhist, Jain, and Hindupillars placed one upon another. The original or-namentation of many of these columns has had itsheathenish beauty defaced by the religious fanati-cism of the Muhammadan conquerors, who tookpains to knock oif the heads of the gods carvedupon them, and otherwise attempted the removal ofall temptations to idol-worship. An Arabic inscrip-. Relics of Mogvl Magnificence 101 tion over the eastern entrance to the courtyard statesthat the materials were obtained from the demoli-tion of twenty-seven idolatrous temples. Inside thecourtyard of the ruined mosque is a relic of ancientmanufacture and art, which may fitly tame theboastfulness of the Krupp works at Essen and thefurnaces of the U. S. Steel Corporation at Pitts-burgh and elsewhere. It is the Iron Pillar, cele-brated for its size and its beauty. This pillar is asolid shaft of wrought iron, more than sixteen inchesin diameter and twenty-three feet eight inches inlength. An analysis of a bit of this pillar showedthat it is pure malleable iron of specific grav-ity. Its own history is in brief deeply cut in theform of a Sanskrit inscription on its western records the fame of a Raja of the olden time,who wished to perpetuate a form o
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