Identifier: handbooktravelle00john Title: A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: John Murray (Firm) Subjects: India -- Guidebooks Burma -- Guidebooks Sri Lanka -- Guidebooks Publisher: London : J. Murray Calcutta : Thacker, Spink, & Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: t.^ Fromthe gallery outside there is a fine viewover Bijapur. On the E. is Alipur ;on the W. are seen the IbrahimRoza, the Upari Burj, the Sherza,or Lion Bastion, and to the N.W. theunfinished tomb of Ali Adil ShahII., and about i m. towards the N.the ruins of the villages of the masonsand painters employed on the GolGumbaz; and on the S.W. is thedome of the Jama Masjid. There isa small annexe to the mausoleum onthe N., without a roof, built by SultanMuhammad as a tomb, it is supposed,for his mother, Zohra Sahibah, fromwhom one of the suburbs was calledZohrapur. It was never finished oroccupied. Below the dome is the cenotaph ofSultan Muhammad in the centre. 1 The most ingenious and novel part ofthe construction is the mode in which itslateral and outward thrust is counteracted.This was accomplished by forming the pen-dentives so that they not only cut off theangles, but that, as shown in the plan, theirarches intersect one another and form avery considerable mass of masonry perfectly

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