294 INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. miscalled by the guides Jodh-fiai's. 1 They are small, but it is impossible to conceive anything so picturesque in outline, or any building carved and ornamented to such an extent, without the smallest approach to being overdone or in bad 423. Carved Pillars in the Sultana's Kiosk, Fathpur-Sikrl. (From a Photograph.) taste. The two pillars shown in the annexed woodcut, are from a cast from the last-named pavilion, which is now in the South Kensington and other Museums. It is, perhaps, the most elaborate of the three ; but the other two are generally in better taste. The glory, however, of Fathpur-Sikri is its mosque, which Jodh-Bai was the daughter of Udayasimha of Jodhpur and wife of Jahangir.
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