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to the line of the Manar, and were connected by a triple colonnade 

 without a wall, which was probably omitted owing to the close 

 proximity here of the east wall of the inner mosque. Considering, 

 however, the admirable taste with which the ground was cleared 

 by Major Smith of rubbish (! !), to make way for paths and flower- 

 beds, it is possible that a wall may have stood at this end, of which 

 all traces acre now gone. I conceive that 'Aland-din added, not 

 only his gateway, but also enlarged the cloisters by the columns to 

 the east of the Manar, possibly altering or pulling down a little of 

 the S. E. corner of Altamsh's arcade, in order to join on his new 

 additions. 



Sultan Ghdri. 



About three miles to the N. W. of the Qutb are some remains of 

 considerable historical interest, known in the neighbourhood as 

 Sultan Ghdri. The principal building is said by Sayyid Ahmad to 

 be the tomb of a prince Sultan Nacir-ud-din Mahmud, the eldest 

 son of Altamsh, who died in his father's lifetime, and by whom 

 this tomb was erected in his honor in 1229, A. D. The tomb is 

 approached by a lofty flight of steps which leads to a door sur- 

 rounded by an inscription in white marble in the old Kufic charac- 

 ter. This gate enters on a small court ; in the centre of which 

 stands a large octagonal vault rising about four feet above the yard, 

 the outer sides being coated with slabs of marble ; in one side is a 

 small door which orjens on a flight of 15 steps leading to the bot- 

 tom of the vault. This crypt which is only lighted from the door 

 is faced with the stone of the neighbourhood, and supported by 

 massive columns of the same. In it are the tombs of three adults 

 and one child, all massively built, and covered with chunam, in the 

 style of those in the mausoleum at Tughluqabad. At the west end 

 of the court, is a marble qiolaligdh, handsomely carved : along both 

 the east and west wall, is a single covered colonnade of fluted pillars, 

 and in front of the entrance, and opposite it, in front of the qiblah- 

 gah, the roof of the colonnade is raised into a low dome lined with 

 projecting rows of carved stone in the Hindu fashion, as seen in 

 the domes of Qutbud-din's mosque. The pillars which support 

 the qiblahgah dome are r like the qiblahgah itself, of white marble 



