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Ancient India-Bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of India January 1947

1947

Z J I (..5?1 `This blessed building was ordered to be erected by the great Sultan the most exalted Shahanshah the Lord of the necks of the people the shadow of God in the world the bestower of safety on the [believers the heir of the kingdom of Sulaiman the master of the seal in the kingdom of the] world the Sultan of Sultans Shamsud-dunya-waddin who is specially favoured by the Lord of t [...] The columns inside the tomb-chamber the plaster of the courtyard the hewn stone staircase of the dome (by which he evidently means the octagonal roof of the tomchamber) and the sides of the four corner-towers all tally with the description of the Sultan.2 Firoz Shah also built a khilnqa-h (monastery) and a mosque at Malikpur both of which can be identified (below p. 9). [...] The Hindu elements in the architecture of the monument are apparent in the dome of the mosque and the partly-defaced Hindu motifs on some of the pillabrackets of the Epigraphs in Kafie script other than Quranic verses are seen only at the Qutb (Delhi) Arhär-Din-kJhompra (Ajmer) and at Sultan Ghari. [...] They mark the close of the second glaciation and the beginning of the next interglacial stage during which the lake was drained by reason of another uplift of the Pir Panjal range and the Jhelum valley developed causing the first terrace on the Upper Karewas. [...] And there is evidence of this in the tributary valley west of Srinagar and elsewhere in the form of a ledge referable to Terrace 1 between the two slopes the upper of which belongs to the Upper Karewas and below the lower slope the moraines of the third glaciation occur.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
217
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120094
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii Director General of Archaeology in India view
Notes
1-3 R.E.M.W. view
Sultan Ghari Delhi
4-xiii S.A.A. Naqvi view
Stone Age India
11-58 V.D. Krishnaswamy view
Harappa 1946: The Defences and Cemetery R 37
59-130 R.E.M. Wheeler view
A New Prehistoric Ceramic from Baluchistan
131-iii Stuart Piggott view
Technical Section
143-150 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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