Page:The Architecture of Ancient Delhi Especially the Buildings Around the Kutb Minar 1872 by Henry Hardy Cole.djvu/94

 6 4 Masjid-i-Kutb-ul-Isldm. presence of a well filled and sleek Brahmin bull. This animal — regarded with great reverence by the Hindus, who were unceasing in their ministerings to his comfort — was permitted to take up his quarters ever)- night amongst these pillars, naturally esteemed as objects of sanctity, having formed a portion of a sacred structure. As the casts were produced, and day by day accumulated on the spot, so it seems did the bull's wrath become kindled. At last one evening matters had evidently reached a climax for him, as I discovered him furiously goring the white plaster moulds. The next day I represented to the native villagers the inimicality to my work from a continued residence of the bull in the Colonnade ; after a prolonged expostulation I obtained the promise of a remedy, and the bull's night lodging was changed.