A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . t.^ Fromthe gallery outside there is a fine viewover Bijapur. On the E. is Alipur ;on the W. are seen the IbrahimRoza, the Upari Burj, the Sherza,or Lion Bastion, and to the theunfinished tomb of Ali Adil ShahII., and about i m. towards the ruins of the villages of the masonsand painters employed on the GolGumbaz; and on the is thedome of the Jama Masjid. There isa small annexe to the mausoleum onthe N., without a roof, built by SultanMuhammad as a tomb, it is supposed,for his mother, Zohra Sahibah, fromwhom one of the s
A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . t.^ Fromthe gallery outside there is a fine viewover Bijapur. On the E. is Alipur ;on the W. are seen the IbrahimRoza, the Upari Burj, the Sherza,or Lion Bastion, and to the theunfinished tomb of Ali Adil ShahII., and about i m. towards the ruins of the villages of the masonsand painters employed on the GolGumbaz; and on the is thedome of the Jama Masjid. There isa small annexe to the mausoleum onthe N., without a roof, built by SultanMuhammad as a tomb, it is supposed,for his mother, Zohra Sahibah, fromwhom one of the suburbs was calledZohrapur. It was never finished oroccupied. Below the dome is the cenotaph ofSultan Muhammad in the centre. 1 The most ingenious and novel part ofthe construction is the mode in which itslateral and outward thrust is was accomplished by forming the pen-dentives so that they not only cut off theangles, but that, as shown in the plan, theirarches intersect one another and form avery considerable mass of masonry perfectly.
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