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 CHAP. V. CENOTAPHS. 165 magnificent, and certainly among the most picturesque, is that of Udaypur, the capital of Mewar and the chief of the Rajput states still existing. Here the tombs exist literally in hundreds, of all sizes, from the little domical canopy supported by four columns ^to the splendid chhatri whose Cenotaph of Sangram-Singh at Udaypur. (From a Photograph.) octagonal dome is supported by fifty-six, for it has been the necropolis of the race ever since they were expelled from the ancient capital at Chitorgadh by Akbar in 1568. All are crowned by domes, and all make more or less pretensions to architectural beauty; while as they are grouped together as