The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c30.s1.54

v3.c30.s1.54

The peculiar form of wide arch with low imposts initiated at the *Jāmi‘ Masjid* was subsequently imitated at Gulbarga in the stupendous archway over the entrance to the shrine of Banda Nawāz, which is traditionally ascribed to the reign of Tāj-ud-dīn Fīrūz Shāh (1397–1422) but which there are good reasons for referring to a later date. Whatever its age, this archway is eloquent of the fearless imagination of the architects of the Deccan, which led them to essay the construction of domes and arches as vast as any known to the mediaeval or ancient world.