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Ahmad states that Nacirud-din Tughluq an( i 'Alaud-din Sikandar 

 Shah (the Humayun Tughluq apparently of Elphinstone) also lie 

 buried here. Adjoining the tomb to the north is a range of low 

 masonry buildings, probably the Madrasah which Firuz Shah erect- 

 ed here ; although at present unoccupied, this building is blocked up 

 by the walls by which the villagers have adapted it to the wants 

 of their modem civilization. Around the royal tomb are numerous 

 open monuments of the common form of cupolas resting on pillars. 



Tomb of Mubdrik Shah. 



Near the tomb of f afdar Jang, stands the little village of Muba- 

 rikpur. This is built in the midst of a large yard surrounded by 

 a stone battlemented wall. The gates leading into this Court have 

 the side posts and lintels of grey stone, and are oblong in shape 

 except at the top where the side posts project in the usual fashion. 

 About the actual doorway, is a narrow line of plain blue encaustic 

 tiles, and below two full blown lotus flowers in white marble. A 

 short approach from this gate leads to the tomb itself, a massive 

 octagonal building constructed of the grey stone of the country. 

 It stands on a plinth, approached by an ascent of two steps with a 

 sloping way of stone between. The tomb is surrounded by a 

 covered colonnade ; the pillars, twenty-four in number, stand on the 

 edge of the plinth. These pillars are of a highly peculiar form, 

 being oblong, and so cut as to present the appearance of two oblong 

 shaped pillars joined by a narrower belt ; at each corner of the 

 octagon, the outer pillar is strengthened by a buttress of solid stone, 

 which greatly contributes to the general appearance of strength 

 and solidity which characterize the building. The dome springs 

 from a low cylinder, ornamented with colour and with sixteen tinials. 

 The dome itself is crowned with an open octagonal lantern of red 

 stone ; around the dome are eight octagonal cupolas resting on 

 low pillars. There is only one door into the tomb, that to the 

 south, which is of similar construction to the one in the outer 

 court. In the space between the lintel of the doorway and the 

 apex of the arch in which it is set, is a fan-light of lattice work in 

 stone. The other six apertures, except the west one, answer to this 

 south doorway, except that the doorway in their case is filled up 



