The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-17

northwest and conquered the aboriginal
tribes, they founded a city which they called
lndraPat, just south of the present site OF
Delhi. How old it is no one knows, for the
names Of its founders have beeh forgotten,
its records, If it had any, have been de-
stroyed, and its streets are winding foot
paths which one follows with difficulty.
Every wave Of INVASION that has swept
down from the north or west has passed
over lndrapat. and it's stones could tell a
thrilling story if they could but speak. The
city has been rebuilt again and again, the
last time about 300 years ago., but it has
little to exhibit now but it's antiquity.
There is a massive city wall with huge
gates; there are tumbled down buildings
occupied by a few people and some goats,
and there is a stone library building erected
hundreds of years before Carnegie was
born, but the glory Of I~ndrapat has de-
parted. Not far from Indrapat is the
splendid tomb of Humayun and another
OF the Asoka pillars.
Eleven miles south OF the present Delhi
is what is called old Delhi Delhi seems to
have had a movable Site, mmortalized
by the famous Kutab Minar, or tower,
erected near the close Of the twelfth century
by one Of the earliest Mohammedan con-
querors after the capture Of Delhi. The
tower-a tower Of victory-is 233 feet in
height, ~forty-seven feet in diameter at the
base and nine at the top.
It has beer described as one of the archi-
~tectural wonders Of the world, and it GER
tainly gives one a profound respect for the
mind that planned it.
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mosques scattered over the plains around
Delhi that space forbids particular descrip-
ton.
RELICS OF THE GREAT MooULs.
Within a century after the death Of Mo-
hammed the Moslems made an attack
upon India, but it was 500 years later before
they became masters Of the great peninsula.
Then for 500 more it was the scene OF con-
fict between rival Moslems, until Timur
CTamerlane, the TARTAR plundered 1t and
drenched it with blood.
In ell these wars Delhi was the strategic
point, the natural capital Of the north.
After Timur came his descendant of the
sixth generation, Babar, who consolidated
the Indian Empire by bravery, tact and
wisdom.
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but he was so occupied with the extension
Of the sovereignty that he was compelled
to leave the development Of the empire to
his descendants. His grandson, Akbar,
built three great forts. one at Allahabad,
TO which reference has beer made In another
article; another at Agra, which he made his
capital. and the third at Atok, still further
north.
This was TO be his home, and here on q
sandstone ridge overlooking the plain he
rearsd a group Of buildings which even now,
though defsrted for two centuries. attract
tourists from all over tho world. While the
material Employed is red sandstsne, the
buildings are models Of beauty as we'll as
strength, and the minute and elaborate cary
ings are masterpieces in their line.
The fort built by Akblr at Agra, W lille
proof against modern missiles, wal i'm
pregnable in its day, and still bears testi-
to the constructive genius OF the
second Of the Moguls.
AKBAB's LOOTED TOMB.
Six miles from Agra, at Sikandra, stands
The magnificent tomb which Akbar built
and where he rests. II Is constructed OF
red sandstone and is part Buddhist and part