At a distance of a few inches below the
surface it expands in a bulbous form to a diameter of 2 ft. 4 in.,
and rests on a gridiron of iron bars, which are fastened with lead
into the stone pavement. (_A.S.R._, vol. iv, p. 28, pl. v.)
This last prosaic fact, established by actual excavation, destroys
the basis of all the current local legends and spurious traditions.
29. This name is printed Ouse in the author's text. The saint
referred to is the celebrated Kutb-ud-din Bakhtyar Kaki, commonly
called Kutb Shah, who died on the 27th of November, A.D. 1235.
Iltutmish died in April, A.D. 1236 (Beale).
30. The royal tombs are in the village of Mihrauli, close to the
Kutb. See Carr Stephen, op. cit., pp. 180-4, and Fanshawe, pp. 280-4.
31. That is to say, the revenue administration of Bengal, Bihar, and
Orissa in 1765.
32. He is now Emperor, having succeeded his father, Akbar Shah, in
1837. [W. H. S.] He is known as Bahadur Shah II. In consequence of
his having joined the rebels in 1857, he was deposed and banished. He
died at Rangoon in 1862, and with him ended the line of Emperors of
Delhi.
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