1867.] Notes on the Jumma fllasjid. 75 



has been chiselled is used as an architrave in a rude chapel. Others 

 are doubtless plaistered over in the walls. 



The screen is 47 feet in height and a little less in width. The 

 general depth of the building, of which a plan to scale is appended, 

 (vide Plate III.) is 20 feet interiorly, the centre portion, on which the 

 Mussulman dome is built, being a few feet more. The block of granite, 

 perhaps 5 feet by 1 J, let into the front of the screen — -and figured by 

 me — is very curious. It is undoubtedly of great antiquity, and bears 

 the usual Buddhist character of ornamentation as found in this neigh- 

 bourhood. It at once attracts attention by being altogether out of place. 

 Only one of the " Kangura" or pimlacles remains in the building, 

 but they doubtless extended across to the screen, the small portions 

 of wall where the plaister has fallen, shew the well known scroll 

 denticulated pattern. 



Over the south chapel, right across the centre, has been constructed 

 an arched chamber, 20 feet by 20, and perhaps 18 feet high. The roof 

 of this has been moulded with pieces of nodular kunkur set in lime, 

 which alone appears to keep it together. The effect is most singular ; 

 facing as it does to the East, it would seem that originally there had 

 been a cloister, the four rude chapels consisting of 10 pillars each, with 

 a larger chapel in the centre for the image. As, however, the whole 

 was rebuilt by the Mussulmans some 430 to 450 years since, the only 

 archceologcial interest which attaches to the spot is, that it was un- 

 doubtedly once a Buddhist site. 



In the court-yard, now enclosed by a mean brick wall, is a small 

 chaitya, 9 feet square, covering a Mussulman tomb, where four plain 

 pillars support a flat roof with eave-stones of red sandstone projecting 

 2 feet on each side. The stones composing this evidently came from 

 Agra from the same quarries* which furnished the Raja's Secundra 

 gardens. I have drawn one of the capitals which is of the old pattern, 

 somewhat altered. 



On the road between Etawah and Mynpoorie, several villages built 

 on high " kheras" or mounds attracted my notice. I hope to explore 

 them and send you the results, if any there be. 



* Tautpur Village, Saliender Pergunnali, Agra Zillah, 



