History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c25.s8.58

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¹ Tod (vol. ii. pp. 733ff.), gives several plates of the details of the porch by a native artist—fairly well drawn—but wanting shadow to render them intelligible. Unfortunately we now learn that this monument had been repaired two or three years ago, with ugly masonry, plaster and whitewash. Such is what has to be expected wherever an ancient monument is repaired by Hindûs or entrusted to the ordinary engineer to clean.