A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.97

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¹ Correct dates have been kindly supplied by Wm. Irvine, Esq., I. C. S. Ret. Those in the books are usually wrong. For the value of the rupee see Tavernier, *Travels in India*, transl. V. Ball, vol. i, 413, and Manrique (chap. lx) 'una rupià medio peso Español'; and for time of completion, Tavernier, p. 110. The explanation of the practical purpose of the *jawāb* building is due to S. Muḥammad Latīf, *Agra, Historical and Descriptive*, p. 113. From the artistic point of view, the structure was essential to the perfect symmetry aimed at by the architect. The highest estimate of the cost is given in Anderson's translation of one of the Persian MSS., now No. II in Or. 2030, B. M. Much of the more costly material was presented by tributary princes, and its value probably was excluded from the lower estimates. Mr. Chisholm is mistaken in believing that 'these domes seem to have been built without centres' (*J. Roy. Soc. Arts*, Jan., 1911, p. 173). He overlooked Tavernier's statement.