THE principal aim of my visit to the Kutb ruins was to obtain facsimiles of the best pillars in the Colonnade. They have a beauty and variety of ornament unequalled, so far as is known, in the whole of the northern part of India, and are some of the best samples of a style of architecture, evidently one suggested by that of the Jams, of which specimens abound in Rajputana and Bandelkhand. In the present instance it would appear that the temples from which the pillars and materials had been taken to build the Mosque were Brahminical.
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