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INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. design, but it must be confessed wanting in variety. These with the walls supported no less than 378 domes, all similar in design and construction. The only variation that is made is where a platform, called the Badshah-ka-Takht, the King's Plan of Adinah Mosque, Pandua. Scale 100 ft. to i in. Throne or Royal Gallery, divides a part of the building into two storeys. This is supported by twenty-one short pillars of much heavier form, and has others, monolithic, and of a more elegant style above. But the roof has fallen and very few of the other supporting pillars are intact.