A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.23

c18.23

Muhammadan architecture. The local masons had learned in the course of a century how to build true arches with keystones, and were no longer constrained to execute the designs of their foreign masters by the structurally inferior Hindu methods. The building consists of a rectangular chamber surmounted by a low-spreading dome. The ornament is composed mainly of geometrical designs and artistic Arabic inscriptions, but sundry details still show the influence of Hindu tradition (Fig. 233).²