Archaeological Survey of India. The Moghul Architecture of Fatehpur-Sikri: Described and Illustrated by Edmund W. Smith Archaeological Survey North-Western Provinces and Oudh

An ornamented dado occupies the space between the floor and the bottom of the recesses but the rest of the wall is left plain with the exception of the entrance jambs (seen to the right of the draing) which are elaborately chiselled with geometrical devices. [...] This is apparent from the section through the building given on Plate VI which shows the elevation of one of the domes and the section of the other and the outer shell in juxtaposition with the inner. [...] The relation of the diameter of the shaft to its height more closely approaches the proportions laid down for the Tuscan Order being about seven and a half diameters in height measured from the bottom of the base to the top of the capital. [...] The leaves grow out of the meanders and unite over the diverging lines of the scroll upon the sides of the border; and nicely fill up the ground. [...] At the corners' are carved angle-ears terminating at the top in semi padli a. Emerging from the middle of the mouldings along the top of the base is a raised and undulating band of scroll carving which encircles the semi-rosette above the plinth and dies away into the carved ears at the corners.