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 216 INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. is so picturesque that it is difficult to find fault with it. If all the materials were original, the design would be open to 378. Tomb at Siprl, Gwaliar State. (From a Sketch by the Author.) criticism ; but, when a portion is avowedly borrowed, a slight want of balance between the parts may be excused. There are several examples of tombs of this sort at the BakariyS. Kund in Benares, evidently made up from ancient materials ; l and, indeed, wherever the Muhammadans fairly settled themselves on a site previously occupied by the Hindus, Jains, or Buddhists, such combinations are frequent ; but no attempt is ever made to assimilate the parts that are Muhammadan with those belonging to the Hindu style which they are employing ; they are of the age in which the tomb or mosque was built, and that age, consequently, easily recog- nisable by any one familiar with the style. The usual form of a Pathan tomb will be better understood from the following woodcut (No. 379), representing a nameless sepulchre 2 among the hundreds that still strew the plains of 1 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' vol. xxxiv. pp. I et scqq.> plates 1-8. 2 Cunningham says it is ascribed to Mubarak KMn Pathan ; Mr Fanshawe assigns it to Muhammad Shah IV. , who died 1443, but to whom Sayyid Ahmad ascribes another octagonal tomb to the north-east of the mosque. Cunning- ham's ' Archaeological Reports,' vol. xx. pp. 158, 159; and Fanshawe's 'TVlhi.' p. 244, Delhi, '