The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c8.21
The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c8.21
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² See below, p. 91. Compare the sketch of the interior of a five-raftered Bengali thatched roof (Pl. II) with the vaulting of the Sonâ Masjid, Gaur (“Indian Architecture,” Plate XLIII, A); and the plan of the seven-raftered roof, fig. 8, with that of the stone-vaulted roof of the Buland Darwâza, Fatehpur-Sîkrî (“Indian Architecture,” p. 166, fig. 39), or with the roof of Ibrahîm’s tomb at Bijâpûr, *ibid.* Pl. LXXXVII.