| Mausoleum of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq
The Information by Archaeological Survey of India
The mausoleum of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq is connected by a
causeway to the outpost south of the fortification. This leads
to high road in an old artificial lake and is now pierced
by the Mehrauli-Badarpur road. After passing an old Pipal
Tree, the complex Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq the tomb is entered
by a high bridge composed of red sandstone with a staircase.
The mausoleum is composed of a single square-domed tomb (about
8 m m x8) with sloping walls crowned by parapets. Unlike the
walls of the fortification composed of granite, the sides
of the mausoleum are met by a red sandstone and inlaid panels
and inscribed marble arch boders. The building is topped by
a dome resting on an elegant octagonal drum which is covered
with white slabs of marble.
The interior of the mausoleum are three tombs: The power
belongs to a Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq and the other two are
believed to be those of his wife and his son and successor
Muhammad bin Tughluq. In the north-west bastion of the enclosure
wall with its colonnades, octagonal corridors is another tomb
in the same style with a small dome and marble inscribed in
marble and sandstone slabs on its bow doors. According to
an inscription on its southern entrance to the tomb houses
the remains of Zafar Khan. His tomb was at the site before
the construction of the outpost has been consciously and integrated
into the design of the mausoleum by Ghiyath al-Din himself.
Architecture
Tughluqabad is still remarkable, massive stone fortifications
that surround the irregular ground plan of the city. The slope
rubble-filled walls, a characteristic monuments of the dynasty
Tughluq are between 10 and 15 meters high, surmounted by battlemented
parapets and strengthened by circular bastions of up to two
floors. The city is supposed to have been once more than 52
doors of which only 13 remain today. The walled city has seven
pools of rainwater.
Tughluqabad is divided into three parts;
* 1)'s largest city with houses built along a rectangular
grid between its doors
* 2) the citadel with a trip to its highest point known as
Bijai Mandal and the remains of several rooms and a long underground
passage
* 3) the area adjacent palace containing the royal residences.
A long underpass below the tower remains.
Today, most of the city is inaccessible because of dense
vegetation thorny. Increasingly part of the ancient city was
occupied by modern settlement, especially near lakes.
South of Tughluqabad is a vast artificial water reservoir
in the fortified position of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq the Tomb.
The mausoleum is still well preserved at Fort elevated by
a causeway which still exists today.
When Ghazi Malik Tughlaq dynasty founded in 1321, he built
the strongest at Tughlaqabad in Delhi, completed with great
speed in the four years of his reign. It is said that Ghazi
Malik, when only a slave Mubarak Khilji, had suggested this
rocky place as an ideal site for a fort. The Sultan Khilji
laughed and suggested that the slave build a fort when he
became a Sultan. Ghazi Malik as Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq did just
that Tughlaqabad-east Delhi, more colossal and the incredible
strong even in its ruined state. Under its sky to touch the
walls, double-storey towers and bastions were housed huge
great palaces, magnificent mosques and public venues.
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