A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.35

c18.35

having been elaborately described and illustrated by Dr. Burgess and his staff in three quarto volumes, fully furnished with plans, sections, elevations, and photographs. The style is that of the Hindu and Jain temples (*ante*, p. 32, Plates VI, VII) with such modifications as were necessary for the purposes of Muslim worship, and is characterized by all the richness of ornament distinctive of the temples of Gūjarāt and Southern Rājputāna—a strange contrast to the stern simplicity of the Tughlak buildings contemporary with the earlier examples. Hindu construction, too, is freely used, but the indispensable domes and pointed arches are introduced. The entrance to the chief mosque at Cambay, for instance, erected early in the fourteenth century, is simply a Hindu temple porch, with a low dome, plain on the exterior, put on top of it.¹ The exquisite roofed pulpit of Hilāl Khān Kazi's mosque at Dholkā, built in A. D. 1333, has a purely Hindu pyramidal roof, and much of the panelled ornament with which the whole surface has been covered is equally Hindu.²