fquare periftyle of columns, with diverging bafes, and capitals
curiouily carved ; the columns are ribbed, and near their tops
doubly fafciated: within is the apartment of retreat from the
heat. On each front are rows o f fquare doors, and above each
a window obtufely arched. Over the columns in every front
hangs a fhort roof, above is a parapet, the lower part mod
beautifully carved, and above that worked into matchlefs fil-
lagree. At a fmall diftance from this is another fquare low
building, with a fhort roof iimilar to the former, furmounted
with its fillagree parapet; this furrounds a terrafs for the benefit
o f the cool air. In the centre had been a marble building,-
which the nabob ftupidly removed to ornament his Hummarn or
bath at Oude. At each corner of this terrafs ftands a miniature
pavilion, fquare, with the four fides clofed with fillagree of a
moft charming pattern; there is an overhanging roof, the fum-
mit rifes fquare, and finiihes into a neat point. This building is
certainly the chef d'oeuvre of Indian architecture, an uncommon
exhibition of fillagree in ftone. The area in which it
ftands is protected with a handfome wall, againft which feem
to be cazerns, and over certain parts appear plain edifices, with
common bell-fhaped cupolas, fupported by a few plain pillars.
Mr. Daniel! gives this in his VHIth plate, a moft delightful proof
o f his fkill.
M a u s o l e u m o f In the fame common precinCt, in a fine garden near this city,
C h u s e r o . laid out in the tafte of Hindoo/lan, with paved walks, avenues,
and fountains, are the maufoleums o f two brothers; o f Chufero,
the elder fon, and of Sultan Purvez, the fecond fon of Jebangir;
princes extremely different in their characters. Chufero was of
great
great perfonal beauty, artd oh that account popular: but in his
difpofition haughty, violent, and mutable, weak and irrefolute.;
aítüated by the fury of his paffion, and feduced by evil ad--
vifers, in 1606, he broke into open, rebellion againft his father.
He raifed a confiderable force, was purfued, defeated, and;
taken in pafling the Indus, with feveral o f his moft confidera-
able followers : he Was brought in chains before his father.
The inexorable Jebangir immediately ordered two of the principal
to be fown up,, one in the raw fkin of an afs, the other
in that- of an ox, and to be, thrown into the ftreets, to the vio -,
lence of a meridian fun, till they died. Three hundred of the
youth of Hindoojlan, who had through affe&ion followed
Chufero, next felt his fury. He ordered them to be impaled on.
two rows of flakes, and as long as any furvived, he caufed his.
fon to be led between the rows to hear their dying; agonies *.
Chufero was, in 1621, murdered by the contrivance of his- brother,
Shah Jehan, afterwards emperor. Jebangir felt the moft
poignant grief even for his worthlefs offspring; but never pu-
niihed the caufe of his forrow. Shah Jehan broke into rebellion
; was at length defeated, and received his moft unmerited,
pardon.
T he maufoleum is of red ftone, is fquare, and has on each
front windows with lharp pointed arches, a cupola at each corner,
and a large dome, riling out of an odiagonal centre, the repoll-
tory o f the body.
T h e maufoleum of Sultan Purvez, fecond ibn to Jebangiry , M ausoleum.
OF StTLTAN
is elevated on a beautiful fquare platform o f ftone, with an en- > P urvez.
* Dow’s Fertfhta, iii. p. 17.
trance