History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c26.s8.2

v2.c26.s8.2

One of the most remarkable features in this mosque is the tomb, which its founder, 'Umar bin-Ahmad al Kâzarûnî, in 1333, erected for himself. It stands in an enclosure about 49 ft. wide along the south end of the court, is wholly composed of Hindû remains, and is two storeys in height, and was crowned with a dome 37 ft. in diameter. The parts, however—borrowed, apparently, from different buildings—were so badly fitted together that, after standing some three centuries, it fell in, and has since remained a ruin, singularly picturesque in form and exquisite in detail, but a monument of the folly of employing building materials for any purpose but that for which they were designed.¹