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 CHAP. III. LATER PATHAN STYLE. 217 Old Delhi. It stands at the village of Khairpur, about 3 miles south from the Ajmir gate of Delhi, and on the south-west of the 379- Tomb at Khairpur, Old Delhi. (From a Sketch by the Author.) mosque. It consists of an octagonal apartment, 31 ft. 10 in. inside diameter, surrounded by a verandah following the same form the base being 72 ft. 2 in. in diameter each face being ornamented by three arches of the stilted pointed form generally adopted by the Pathans, or rather Sayyids, and it is supported by rectangular pillars, which are almost as universal with them as this form of arch. It is a form evidently borrowed from the square pier of the Jains, but so altered and so simplified, that it requires some ingenuity to recognise its origin in its new combination. Another octagonal tomb, to the north-east of the mosque, is built in the same style and of almost exactly the same dimensions; and the tomb of Mubarak Shah II. (murdered in 1434) at Kotila or Mubarakpur, about a mile and a half south of Khairpur, is also of the same pattern and size. It is the earliest of those in the later Pathan style. 1 This series of tombs closes with that of Sher Shah (1539- 1 A plan is given in Cunningham's ' Archaeological Reports, vol. xx. plate 35.