Page:The Architecture of Ancient Delhi Especially the Buildings Around the Kutb Minar 1872 by Henry Hardy Cole.djvu/192

Rh of my temporary abode, under whose vaulted dome the slightest noise produced mysterious echoes, I still look back with pleasure to the time passed in connecting together links of history relating to the surrounding ruins, and in studying the infinite variety of architectural forms which once made the Delhi buildings the fit abodes of Hindu kings, and lent splendour and grandeur to the capital of the Muhammadan emperors of India.