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166 MOHAMMAD TAGHLAK AND FIEOZ SHAH the reservoir out, so that this great tank might again be filled from year to year. The Madrasa (college) of Sultan Shams-ad-din Al- tamish had been destroyed. I rebuilt it and furnished it with sandalwood doors. The columns of the tomb, which had fallen down, I re- stored better than they had been before. When the tomb was built, its court had not been made curved, but I now made it so. I enlarged the hewn-stone staircase of the dome, and I re-erected the fallen piers

    • of the four towers.

The tomb of Sultan Mu'izz-ad-din, son of Sultan Shams-ad-din, which is situated in Malikpur, had fallen into such ruin that the sepulchres were undistinguishable. I restored the dome, the terrace, and the enclosing wall. The tomb of Sultan Rukn-ad-din, son of Shams-ad- din, in Malikpur, needed restoration. I repaired the enclosing wall, built a new dome, and erected a mon- astery. The tomb of Sultan Jalal-ad-din I repaired, and I supplied it with new doors. The tomb of Sultan Ala-ad-din I repaired and fur- nished it with sandalwood doors. I repaired the wall of the abdarWianah, or reservoir house, and the west wall of the mosque, which is within the college, and I also restored the tesselated pavement. I likewise repaired and renovated the tomb of Sul- tan Kutb-ad-din and the other sons of Sultan Ala-ad- A MIKAK AT AHMADABAD