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 244 INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. also with five domes three in the middle of the facade, and one in each of the wings. It was erected about 1485, with minarets on each side the central arch of a pattern similar to those at Ahmadabad. A third mosque, erected in 1361 almost entirely of materials from Hindu temples, is known as the Tanka Masjid. 1 The most beautiful, however, of these provincial examples is the tomb at Mahmudabad, of its class one of the most beautiful in India (Woodcuts Nos. 400 and 401). It was erected in the reign of Mahmud Begarah, A.D. 1484, for Mubarak Sayyid, one of his ministers. It was under the same sovereign that the tomb of Qutbu-1 'Alam was erected at Batwa, described 401. Tomb of Mubarak Sayyid, near Mahmudabad. (From a Photograph.) above (Woodcut No. 398), and is said to have been designed by the same architect. This is, however, a far more successful example, and though small it is only 94 ft. square, exclusive of the porch there is a simplicity about its plan, a solidity and balance of parts in the design, which is not always found in these tombs, and has rarely, if ever, been surpassed in any 1 ' Archaeological Survey of Western India,' vol. vi. pp. 32f. and plates 28-34; pp. 36f. and plates 50-54.