Page:History of Indian and Eastern Architecture Vol 2.djvu/220

i 7 8 CIVIL ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VI. though not very architectural in its general appearance, has on the river-face a bal- conied window, which is a fair and pleasing specimen of the archi- tecture of his ( Woodcut No. age 362). He also was the king who erected the temple at Brindaban, which has been illustrated above (pp. 156, 157). DIG. All the palaces above described are more or less irregular in their disposition, and are all situated on rocky and uneven ground. That at Dig, however, is on a per- fectly level plain, and laid out with a regu- larity that would satisfy the most fastidious Renaissance architect. It is wholly the work of Suraj - Mall, the virtual founder of the Bharatpur dynasty, who commenced it, ap- parently in 1725, and left it as we now see it, when he was slain in (From a battle with Najaf Khan in Dec. 1763. It wants, it is true, the massive of other Rajput states, but for grandeur of conception and beauty of detail it surpasses them all. The whole palace was to have consisted of a rectangular enclosure twice the length of its breadth, surrounded with buildings, with a garden in the centre, divided into two parts by a broad terrace, intended to carry the central pavilion. Only one of these rectangles has been completed, measuring about 362. Balcony at the Observatory, Benares. Drawing by the late James Prinsep. ) character of the fortified palaces