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Art. XIV.—The Iron Pillar of Dhār.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

V. A. Smith
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In the article on “The Iron Pillar of Delhi” I noticed that another iron pillar exists at Dhār in Central India, but observed that no detailed description of that pillar was known to me.

I now find that a description of this very remarkable monument has been printed—I can hardly say published—in a report by the indefatigable Dr. Führer.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1898 , pp. 143 - 145
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1898

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References

page 143 note 1 J.R.A.S., Jan 1897, p. 11.

page 144 note 1 These figures for the Iron Pillar at the Qutb Mosque are wildly wrong. The total height of that monument from top to bottom is 23 ft. 8 in. The lower diameter of the shaft is 16·4 inches, and the upper diameter is 12·05 inches, the diminution being 0·29 of an inch per foot. The capital, which is of the bell pattern, is 3½ feet high.

page 144 note 2 “Annual Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey Circle, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, for the year ending 30th June, 1893”; printed at the Thomason College Press, Roorkee, No. 2,286, p. 21.

page 144 note 3 The references to Gupta Architecture in Cunningham's “Reports” are grouped together under that heading in my General Index. See especially vol. ix, plate xi; and vol. x, plates xx–xxii and xxvi–xxx.