There was no 'other _minar_' connected with the
Kutb Minar.(Cunningham, _A.S.R._ iv (1874), p. ix.)
The current name of the Kutb Minar refers to the saint Khwaja Kutb-
ud-din of Ush, who lies near the tower, and not to Sultan Kutb-ud-din
Aibak or Ibak. The _minar_ was erected, about A.D. 1232, by Sultan
Shams-ud-din Iltutmish (V. A. Smith, 'Who Built the Kutb Minar?'
_East and West_, Bombay, Dec. 1907, pp. 1200-5; B. N. Munshi, _The
Kutb Minar, Delhi_, Bombay, 1911).
All the important monuments at or near Delhi are now carefully
conserved, Lord Curzon having organized effective arrangements for
the purpose.
20. The original edition gives a coloured plate of the Kutb Minar.
The total height stated in the text, 242 feet, is said by Fergusson
(p. 205, note) to be that ascertained in 1794; the present height of
the _minar_, since the modern pavilion on the top has been removed,
is 238 feet 1 inch, according to Cunningham. (_A.S.R._, vol. i, p.
196.) Originally the building was ten, or perhaps twenty, feet
higher. The deep flutings appear to have been suggested by the
_minars_ of Mahmud at Ghazni, 'which are star polygons in plan, with
deeply indented angles'.
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