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 open courts four columns are grouped together, and along the sides of the courts there are double columns, while the roofs of the surround- ing arcades are supported, sometimes by single, sometimes by double columns, but all symmetrically arranged ; the illustration gives a very good idea of the arrangement. The small sections thus formed are covered in by low vaults, but at each intersection of the arcades there are groups of nine domes rising from the fiat roof; there being nine such intersections, there are eighty-one domes, and the total is made up to eighty-five by the addition of four domes, one over each of the three entrance-gateways and the fourth over the prayer-niche to the west. The gateways and prayer-niche are flanked by sloping towers, similar to those at the Kalan Mosque. The windows in the outer walls are closed by heavy sandstone grilles. Hindu architecture is represented by heavy door lintels, and by the drip-stones around the courts supported by lintels on brackets, also shown in the illustration. Altogether this mosque is well worthy of an Inspection.

. — In the wall of Jahanpanah to the east of the village of Khirki there is a double- storied "regulator," of seven openings in each tier, through which were drawn off, from time to time, the waters of the lake, which was held up