The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c7.369.2

v1.c7.369.2

that everywhere these men adapted Hindu buildings and temples to serve as mosques; and that the founder of the Bahminy dynasty, Allauddin Hussan, (1347 A.D.), was a native of Delhi who expelled the Emperor Muhammad Tughlak from Dowlatabad where he had transferred the capital of the Pathān empire, it is difficult to believe they were so perfectly ignorant of stone architecture as to be under the necessity of copying from wood, and still more difficult to suppose that those who built the largest dome on earth, between 1640 A.D. and 1660 A.D., larger even than that of St. Peter at Rome, had, three reigns anteriorly, between 1550 and 1557, so little experience in building in stone, as to copy from wood, and that at a time when the intercourse between [23] the north and the south, was perfectly uninterrupted for considerably over three centuries. We believe survival of custom exerted a much more potent influence in such cases than ignorance. Adverting to the caves of Kennari, at Salsette, Mr.