urteenth century, is simply a Hindu temple porch, with a low dome, plain on the exterior, put on top of it. The exquisite roofed pulpit of Hilal Khan Kazi’s mosque at Dholka, built in a. v. 1333, has a purely Hindu pyramidal roof, and much of the panelled ornament with which the whole surface has… … capital, to the architecture of which two of Dr. Burgess’s volumes are devoted. The name of the city is derived from Ahmad Shah, Sultan of Gujarat from 1411 to 1443, and the earliest Muhammadan buildings date from his time. The domes of his cathedral (¥am’c) mosque are constructed in the Hindu…
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