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 304 INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. I620, 1 the Shalimar gardens and summer houses near Srinagar were built about 1624; the tomb of Anarkali in the town of Lahor ; and in the fort he added to Akbar's buildings the eastern Khwab-gah, marked in the accompanying plan (Wood- cut No. 430) ; 2 and the Moti Masjid of white marble, with three domes, which, though comparatively plain, is architecturally interesting. The Khwab-gah or sleeping apartments were in a quadrangle about 140 ft. in length, with a lofty pavilion in the middle of the north side then overlooking the Ravi and at the corners two chambers with Hindu pillars richly carved. On the other three sides the area was surrounded by a colonnade, on pillars of red sandstone with bracket capitals carved with figures of elephants, peacocks, and conventional animals, similar to what we find in the Red Palace at Agra. But these and nearly all the buildings in the fort have met with no respect, but have been entirely altered to suit the conveniences of military life. To the south of Jahangir's palace Shah Jahan erected his Diwan-i-'Amm, and on the west an extension of the palace, the smaller Khwab-gah in which is an elegant pavilion of marble arches and open lattice work which long did duty as a garrison church. At the west end of the north front of the fort is what is known as the Samman Burj, 3 containing the Shish Mahall the work of Shah Jahan and Aurangzib, added to by the Sikhs, and the Naulakha pavilion a costly erection inlaid in pietra dura with flowers in precious stones. The square on the west of the fort, called the Hazuri Bagh, enclosing the Barahdari of Ranjit Singh, gives entrance to the Badshahi Masjid erected by Aurangzib in 1674, to which reference will be made below. The great mosque in the city of Lahor is that of Wazir Khan built in 1634 by Hakim 'Alimu-d-Din, Subahdar of the Panjab under Shah Jahan. It is in the Persian style, covered with enamelled tiles, and resplendent in colours, but not very graceful in form. Its brick walls are covered with beautiful inlaid work called kashi, a kind of mosaic of glazed pottery. 4 Jahangir's own tomb at Shahdara, about 6 miles north of Lahor, was raised by his queen, the accomplished and imperious Nur-Jahan, and was worthy of his other buildings, but it has suffered as much as the others. The tomb is in the middle of a large walled garden about 540 yards square, extending to 60 acres, originally with gateways on each side 1 Photographed in Cole's ' Buildings in the Panjab," plates I and 2. 2 From a native plan of the Fort in the time of Ranjit Singh. Cole, tit sup. 3 Samman is from musamman octa- gonal. Tradition reports alofty octagonal tower here. 4 This inlaid work is described by J. L. Kipling, with a coloured view of the fine gateway and some details, in 'Journal of Indian Art and Industry,' vol. ii. p. 17, and plates 16-18.