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 CHAP. V. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE. Swarga Vilasam or Celestial Pavilion, now used as the High Court of Justice. It measures 235 ft. from north to south by 240. Plan of Tirumalai Nayyak's Palace at Madura. (From a Plan by Mr R. F. Chisholm.) Scale 100 ft. to i in. 105 ft. across, and is arranged very much on the plan of a great mosque with three domes in fact, the whole structure, if not first erected as a splendid mosque, is marvellously like one. The large central dome is supported by twelve columns enclosing a square 64 ft. across. These columns are first linked together by massive Saracenic arches. Four similar arches are then thrown across