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demolished. On comparing therefore this cloistered Masjid with 
those of Jonpur, which are acknowledged re-arrangements of Hindu 
materials, we see at once that the pillars are all Hindu,. and that the 
domes formed of courses of overlapping stones, and decorated with 
Hindu symbols, are certainly not Muhammadan. When I first visited 
Kanoj in January, 1838, the arrangement of the pillars was somewhat 
different from what I found it in November, 1862. The cloisters which 
- originally extended all round the square, are now confined to the 
Masjid itself, that is, to the west side only. This change is said to 
have been made by a Muhammadan Tahsildar shortly before 1857. 
The same individual is also accused of having destroyed all the remains 
of figures that had been built into the walls of the Jama and Makh- 
dum Jahdniya Masjids. It is certain that there are none visible now, 
although in January 1838, as recorded in my Journal, I saw “ several 
Hindu figures placed sideways and upside down” in the walls of the 
Jdma Masjid and three broken figures lying outsidesthe doorway of 
the Masjid of Makhdum Jahdniya. The inscription over the doorway 
of the last, which I saw in its place in 1838, is said to have been 
removed at the same time for the purpose of cutting off a Hindu figure 
on the back of it. I recoverd this inscription by sending to the present 
Tahsildar for it. 
262. The Jdma Masjid, as it stands now, is a pillared room, 108 
feet in length by 26 feet in width, supported on four rows of columns. 
The roof is flat, excepting the centre and ends, which are covered with 
domes formed by circles of stones gradually lessening until they meet. 
Tn front of the Masjid there is a courtyard 95 feet in width, the whole 
being surrounded by a stone wall 6 feet in thickness. The exterior 
dimensions are 133 feet from west to east, by 1203 feet. In 1838 there 
were still standing on the three sides of the courtyard portions of the 
original cloisters formed of two rows of pillars. The Masjid itself was 
then confined to the five openings in the middle of the west side, the 
seven openings on each flank of it being formed of only two rows of 
pillars the same as on the other three sides. The Masjid now consists 
of asingle room supported on 60 pillars without any cloisters ; but 
originally the Masjid itself was supported on 20 pillars with cloisters 
on each flank, and also on the other three sides of the courtyard. The 
whole number of pillars was then 128, To make up this number we 
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