582 Some account of the " Kaldn Musjeed" [Junk, 



cloister surrounding, on three sides, the inner court of the mosque. 

 This cloister supports four domes on the north and south sides, and 

 six on the east, the part next the entrance being covered with a nearly 

 flat octagonal roof, of superior construction. In the part of the court 

 next this square are three principal tombs, and a secondary one, in a 

 row, built of brick and plastered over, three of men and one of a 

 woman. The three first have each head- walls about three and a half 

 feet high, with recesses for lamps, and altogether look so modern that 

 it is difficult to believe in the correctness of the tradition which has it 

 that Khan Jehan, the father, and Khan Jehan the son, are both buried 

 here, though it should be remembered that the tomb, still in existence, 

 over the remains of the founder of the Toghluk dynasty, is also of 

 brick. There is no trace of an inscription which could afford the 

 slightest clue to the truth or falsehood of the tradition. On the west 

 side of the court is the main body of the mosque, consisting of a system 

 of arches and domes, supported by six double and eighteen single 

 pillars, including the pillasters against the walls on three sides. 

 There are consequently five arches in front, and three in depth, sup- 

 porting fifteen domes all, but the centre one, which is about three feet 

 higher than the others, of the same height and dimensions. Round 

 this colonnade, which would be decidedly imposing were the pillars only 

 two or three feet higher, runs an enclosed passage, the use of which it 

 is difficult to explain at present. It is dark and divided in the rear (to 

 the west) being there separated from the mosque by a dead wall into 

 three apartments, the centre one the smallest. In the inner wall of this 

 passage, on either side and to the right and left of the door leading 

 into it from the surrounding cloister, are flights of steps leading to the 

 roof. They are, as usual in all buildings of that time, narrow, but not 

 difficult of access, as is frequently the case. It seems premature at 

 present to attempt any general conclusion on the nature of the buildings 

 erected in the time of Feeroz, and the light they throw on the history 

 of the period, there being so many other contemporaneous structures in 

 the neighbourhood of Dehli, the examination of which must further 

 elucidate the subject, but the following points regarding the Kalau 

 Musjeed, the most perfect specimen of those times remaining, seem 

 worthy of remark. 



1st. The sloping s t. v ] { . f (} ie architecture seems peculiarly illus- 



