36. See _A.S.R._, vol. i, p. 199. '_Top of the Kutb Minar_.--This
octagonal stone pavilion was put up in A.D. 1826 over the Minar by
Major Smith, of the Engineers, who had the superintendence of the
repairs of the Kutb, but it was taken down by the order of
Government' (Harcourt, _The New Guide to Delhi_, p. 123). This
'grotesque ornament' was removed in 1848 by order of Lord Hardinge,
and bereft of its wooden pavilion, which had carried a flag-staff
(Carr Stephen, p. 64; Fanshawe, p. 266). It has now been moved
farther and more out of sight.
37. This alleged outrage does not appear to have really occurred. The
author seems to have been misinformed about the position of Ala-ud-
din's tomb, which still exits in the central room of a building, the
eastern wall of which is in part identical with the western wall of
the extension of the Kutb Mosque, built by Iltutmish (Carr Stephen,
op. cit., p. 88). Fanshawe agrees (p. 272).
38. The tomb desecrated by Mr. Blake is on the right of the road
leading from the Kutb Minar to the village of Mihrauli, and is either
that of Adham Khan, whom Akbar put to death in A.
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