Page:History of Indian and Eastern Architecture Vol 2.djvu/284

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

240 INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. as some of the largest buildings above ground. It requires a personal experience of the grateful coolness of a subterranean 397- Tomb of Qutbu-1 'Alam, Batwa. Scale 50 ft. to i in. 4 i HI 398. Plans of Tombs of Qutbu-1 'Alam and his Son at Batwa. Scale about 50 ft. to i in. apartment in a hot climate to appreciate such a class of buildings, and in the rainy West we hardly know how valuable water may become. 1 1 For an illustrated account of some of the Wavs at or near Ahmadabad, see ' Archaeological Survey of Western India,' vol. viii. pp. 1-6 and 10-14; at Mahmiidabad, vol. vi. pp. 46, 47 ; and in North Gujarat, vol. ix. pp. 3;L and ii2f.