Page:The Architecture of Ancient Delhi Especially the Buildings Around the Kutb Minar 1872 by Henry Hardy Cole.djvu/115

 The Kutb Miliar. 77 by the monumental character of Kutb-ud-din's old Mosque and Miliar, which were regarded as victorious emblems of power and conquest. On the right of the Kutb Minar are the remains of Ala-ud-din's mosque and tomb. Syud Ahmed says they were erected in a.d. 1315; but another account says that the Emperor erected them for himself in a. d. 1307. Firuz Shah is reported to have repaired them in the middle of the fourteenth century, and to have placed a sandal wood grating round the tomb, but at the present time there are no signs whatsoever of the existence of the sarcophagus among the ruins. A portion of the ruins of these buildings may be seen through the gateway in Photograph No. XV; and their disposition is marked at A on the plan No. II. For several miles round the Kutb pillar are ruined heaps of buildings, fragments of pillars and many hundred Muhammadan tombs, all testifying to the ancient grandeur which existed at different periods round the capital of the Muhammadan Emperors.