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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3beauty and ambition repose; and at the end of this vista a vast platform of solid masonry, forty feet high, from which rises proudly to the heavens a structure of the clearest white marble, glittering and sparkling in the bright sun; four minarets, like sentries watching over this crown of edifices, and tipped with shining gold, like the dome and four cupolas surmounting the edifice. We ascended the steps leading to the terracewhich, with the Taj and four minarets, is entirely built of white marble and lifted the curtain, that guards the sacred interior from the common gaze. At first, the soft light streaming in from the clerestory windows, casting a hazy indistinctness over everything, prevented us from clearly defining objects; but gradually the interior became more distinct, and we saw, round the octagonal-shaped centre hall, small cells, like side chapels in a cathedral. We descended into the vault, where are the tombs of the Emperor Shah Jehan and his queen, Noor Jehan (Light of the World), who lie side by side. Immediately above, under the dome, are the cenotaphs, enclosed by a marble screen, which is carved in the finest fret-work, like lace, and said to be unrivalled. The cenotaphs are inlaid with costly mosaics, of wreaths of flowers formed by precious stones of cornelian, jasper, agate, and lapislazuli, the shading being so delicately and elaborately finished, that a single flower is often composed of several dozenstones; and also with sentences from the Koran in black letters. The walls are panelled and inlaid with mosaics of the same description, only the patterns are larger, and the arabesque designs more profuse; but I should be wearisome were I to dwell long on each separate beauty. After spending some time in alternately examining these wonders, and reflecting on the time (200...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443264082
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1443264083
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 145


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