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 242 INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII and it has now, at least no courtyard ; but some of its details, borrowed from Hindu temples, are very beautiful. 1 About 80 miles south-east from Ahmadabad is Champanir, which was subjugated by Mahmud Begarah in 1484 and made 399. Plan of the Jami' Masjid at Champanir. Scale 50 ft. to i in. his new capital. Here he erected a Jami' Masjid, which was finished in 1508 and may fairly be regarded as architecturally the finest in Gujarat. It measures outside 178 ft. from north to south by 216 ft. from west to east. The court in front had 1 ' Archaeological Survey of Western India,' vol. vi. pp. 2etseqq. and plates 2- 16.