THE TEMPLES OF INDIA 



947 



31. A HINDU ASCETIC OR HOLY 



MAN 



ably belongs to the second century A. D. 

 The winged lions show the influence of 

 Babylonian art. 



12. Inner side of the North Toran at 

 Sanchi. 



13. Outer side of the East Toran at 

 Sanchi. 



14. Inner side of one pillar in East 

 Toran, Sanchi, carved with scenes from 

 the Jatakas, or Buddhist Birth Stories, 

 the legends of early Buddhism. 



15. Inner side of the East Toran, 

 Sanchi, upper section, where all created 

 beings are shown worshiping the sacred 

 relics (in a tope or relic casket) and the 

 Sacred Tree. Note how different this 

 picture is from the others. In the middle 

 panel of the middle arch are to be seen all 

 sorts of animals worshiping the Sacred 

 Tree ; on the right is the garuda, to the 

 left of which is the maha or five-headed 

 cobra, and to the left of this two oxen 

 with faces of men. Other mythical ani- 

 mals are seen in the group. 



16. Jai Singh, the Rajah of Jeypore, 

 built observatories at Delhi and Jeypore, 



after the plans of his own, about the year 

 1724. This one at Delhi is most inter- 

 esting to all astronomers — an equatorial 

 dial 56 feet high, with a base of 104 feet 

 and a hypotenuse of 118 feet. Jai Singh 

 was an engineer as well as a mathema- 

 tician and astronomer, and his ruined ob- 

 servatories are his best monument. 



17. The Hauz, or Bath of the Emperor 

 Jehangir, whose son built the Taj Mahal 

 in memory of his wife, is an immense 

 cistern of light-colored porphyry which 

 stands in the center of the great court or 

 armory square of the fort at Agra. It is 

 5 feet high and 8 feet in diameter and 

 formerly stood in one of the inner courts 

 of the adjoining palace. 



18. The Mosque at Fatteh pur Sikri is 

 at one end of a vast court which its 

 cloisters surround, and one may make the 

 whole tour of the great quadrangle, pass- 

 ing through long series of arched door- 

 ways inlaid with fine mosaic. 



19. The Tomb of Tughlak, 4 miles 

 beyond the Kutub Minar at Old Delhi, is 

 also a fort, the domed tomb with its mar- 



