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Identifier: indikacountrypeo00hursuoft (find matches)
Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Sri Lanka India
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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jail buildingsof the city. The jail itself was not built for the purpose whichit now serves. Once it was a palace, occupied by nobles fromDelhi. Then it became an arsenal, and, last of all, the provincialjail. The mosque of Sidi Said was converted into an office, butthe windows could not be allowed to remain open. They were,therefore, walled up. To this fact these five windows owe theirpreservation. They are of stone, and for minute and delicatework they are without an equal even in India. Fergusson says : It would be difficult to excel the skill with which the vegeta-ble forms are conventionalized just to the extent required forthe purpose. The equal spacing also of the subject by thethree ordinary trees and four palms takes it out of the cate-gory of direct imitation, and renders it sufficiently structu-ral for its situation; but perhaps the greatest skill is shownin the even manner in which the pattern is spread over thewhole surface. There, are some exquisite specimens of tracery
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DETAIL OF RANI SIPKI MOSQUE, AHMADAi: \ I >. J A1 IMA H MUD. 735 in precious marbles at Agra and Delhi, but none quite equal tothis/* I looked at these windows with amazement. Here is a greatcentral tree of stone, with branches running out in greater andlesser curves, all graceful and some interlacing, until every partof the arch is tilled with branch and leaf. Then, behind and ofequal height, is a magnificent palm, at whose topmosl frondthere rests a piece resembling the front of a diadem. All this

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  • booksubject:Sri_Lanka
  • booksubject:India
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