483 AN ACCOUNT OF THE INSCRIPTIONS 
was compleated in the Hijri year 617, and the centre arch in 594, corres- 
ponding with A. D. 1220 and 1197; the latter inscription also calls the 
building »!,sllas~*;. the date of the northern portion could not. be deci« 
phered. 
IMMEDIATELY opposite to the centre arch is the iron pillar, about 25 feet 
high: and to the eastward extends a court enclosed by a high wall, and. 
surrounded, en two sides by arcades formed of pillars carved in the 
richest style.of Hindujarchitecture... The domes are particularly elegant, 
and were evidently formed before a knowledge of the principles: of the 
arch had reachedthis country: arcades of the same description but with: 
little ornament extend to the scuth:and eastiof the Mimar. Over the eas- 
tern gate of the court, is: the inscription No..5;. and over the: northern; 
(now blocked up), No. 6. I am of! opinion that the former is modern 
for the Coorun-up-pin mentioned therein, having none of the royal titles, 
cannot be the viceroy, afterwards Suitan:of that names; and as‘to the saint 
we have nothing but traditional proof'of his existence: neither am I certain. 
of the correctness.of No. 6; the hundred being very indistinctly marked :° 
in this will be found the name.of MonammMen Een Suam (Ghori): besides, 
the wall of the court to which it was an entrance, is certainly posterior 
to the centre arch which it encloses, and as that was compleated in 594, 
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the gate cannot haye existed two: years before. 
Tur large unfinished Minar is an immense mass of rough masonry 
nearly double the circumference of the Cootwb, and offering nu tneans of 
