History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c26.15

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3. One of the first to exhibit this tendency was the brilliant but short-lived Sharqî dynasty of *Jaunpur* (a.d. 1394-1476). Though existing for less than a century, they adorned their capital and other cities with a series of mosques and other buildings which are hardly surpassed by those of any city and district in India for magnificence, and by none for a well-marked individuality of treatment.