Qutab Minar
For our Yatra, we started our visit with not so sanatani place - Qutab Minar in Delhi.
The minar was started by Qutub Uddin aibak in the year 1299, founder of slave dynasty. What an oxymoron- Slave dynasty! Or a great feat by him.
Anyways this five storied minar representative of Islam architecture has inscriptions from Quran in calligraphy.
It has had a colorful history- having been damaged and rebuilt multiple times.
What interested my spouse’s interest is an iron tower in the complex - a Vishnu dhwaja from 375 AD. It was probably brought from Udayagiri caves in Madhya Pradesh. What makes it unique is its rust resistant composition. The tower has inscriptions of Sanskrit.
This massive pillar is 23’8” tall and weighs 6 tonnes.
There was also a gate with intricate inscriptions in I assume Arabic.
My vain attempt to capture sunset |
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