Cole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photographs II. General View of the Masjid and Colonnade and III.A, B. Hindu Sculptures and In The Architecture of Ancient Delhi: Especially the Buildings Around the Kutb Minar. Arundel Society, 1872.

THE inscription over the eastern gateway is a record by Kutb-ucl-din, that he took the materials from twenty-seven idolatrous Hindu temples, to build the Great Masjid. According to a calculation by General Cunningham, from twenty to twenty-five temples might have been made from the columns now in situ, so that the assertion may be taken to be probably true.