A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.14
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.14
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c18.14
Sassanian palace of Mashita and those of certain parts of Santa Sophia at Constantinople. The similar screen at Ajmēr, built by Iyaltimish between A. D. 1200 and 1235, consists of seven arches, the central one being 22 ft. 2 in. wide. 'Each arch is surrounded by three lines of writing, the outer in the Kufic and the other two in Arabic characters, and divided from each other by bands of Arabesque ornament boldly and clearly cut and still as sharp as when first chiselled. In the centre the screen rises to a height of 56 feet' (Plate XCI). The illustration shows [Figure: PLATE XCII. The Kutb Mīnār, built by Iyaltimish *cir.* A. D. 1232.