1959-62 Survey

Located approximately 600 m north from the northwest corner of Cirāgh Delhi village, outside the southeastern part of Siri Fort. Grid ref. H-11

This graveyard is enclosed by a wall mosque with seven miḥrābs and side walls, and by a surrounding wall with a gate on the east. There is a twelve-pillared tomb structure situated almost in the center of the graveyard, and numerous tombstones scattered throughout. The decoration of the center miḥrāb, the decorative bands above it, and the turrets on both ends at the back give this wall mosque a distinctive character. Period III.

IOC: VIII-43-2; c.f. ASI: III-245

チラーグ・デリー部落の北西隅の北方約600メートル,スィーリー城壁の東南部の外側にある。附図.H-11

この墓地は,七つのミフラーブと袖壁をもつ礼拝壁と,東に門を開く囲壁とによってとり囲まれている。その内部には,ほぼ中央にある十二本柱の墓建築をはじめ,多くの墓石が散在している。礼拝壁の中央ミフラーブの文様と,上部をはしる帯状の文様とは,礼拝壁の背後の両端に立つ小塔とともに,この建物を印象深いものにしている。第Ⅲ期。

東研.Ⅷ-43-2;cf.ASI.Ⅲ-245

2015-18 Survey

This structure is used as a mosque and madrasa. The front courtyard where T109 is located has been paved with stones, and there is an ASI preservation signboard on the north side of the plinth. The walls from the east gate to the turrets in the corners have been rebuilt with rough stones, but the restoration work of the northeast section has been destroyed and a new gate erected in recent years. The turret in the southeast corner is a replica. The overall shape of the east gate has not changed, but the stucco relief has been lost, rough stones were used in the rebuilding, and the steps have been reconstructed. As the wall mosque has been painted thickly in green and white, and given a lean-to roof that reaches the west facade of T109 to create a covered space, only the exterior looks like it did in the past. The interior has been newly created and there is no trace of the wall mosque. The west (back) surface, the turrets, and the center projections remain as exposed rough stonework, but the east surface has been obscured in paint.

[現状]モスク・マドラサとして使用され、T109の位置する前庭は石で舗装され、基壇の北側にASIの保存看板が立つ。東門から両隅塔型にかけて荒石積みで再建されたが、北東部の修復を壊し近年に新たな門を設けた。南東隅塔型は復元で、東門の構成は変わらないが、スタッコ浮彫は消失、荒石積みとなり、階段を再建した。壁モスクは緑と白に厚く塗装され、差掛け屋根をかけてT109の西ファサードと接する位置まで覆屋を伸ばし、外側のみに昔の面影を留める。室内は新しい内装に変わり壁モスクの片鱗はない。西面(裏面)は塔型と中央の突出部も、荒石積みのまま残り、東面は塗り込められた。

[全体構成]東西30m南北18mあまりの周壁を持ち、東辺に板状の門を立上げ、その軸線上にT109の12本柱墓建築があり、軸線は多少ずれるが西側に7ミフラーブ壁モスクがあった。

[壁モスク]中央ミフラーブをわずかに立上げる。西壁両脇にリブ付塔型、中央ミフラーブ両端に円塔、袖壁を有し、西壁隅部にタレットを冠する。中央アーチ周囲にスタッコ装飾帯が周り、多弁形を彫り込んだ頂部飾をのせる。基壇部と壁頂部に蓮弁形の頂部飾が回る。

[東門]腰壁をもつアーチ開口門で、アーチ両側に3段の小アーチを重ね、上部にはコーニスと頂部飾をもつ。大アーチのメダイオン、小アーチのスパンドレル、およびコーニスの帯部分にはスタッコ浅浮彫が1959-62年には残る。腰壁上および中上段小アーチを支える部分には壺型が分節される。

[Paragraphs 2nd to 4th from the 2015-18 Survey are translated using DeepL.com]

[The walled mosque had a perimeter wall measuring 30m east-west by 30m north-south by 18m, a boarded gate on the eastern side, a T109 12-pillar tomb building on its axis, and a 7-mihrab walled mosque on the western side, although the axis was slightly shifted.

[Wall mosque] slightly elevated central mihrab. It has a ribbed tower shape on both sides of the west wall, a round tower at both ends of the central mihrab, and sleeve walls, crowned with turrets at the corners of the west wall. Stucco ornamental band around central arch with carved polyvalent top ornament. A lotus-petal shaped apex ornament surrounds the base and the top of the wall.

[East gate] An arched portal with a hip wall, with three small arches on each side of the arch and a cornice and apex ornament on the top. The medallions in the large arches, the spandrels in the small arches and the band of the cornice have stucco shallow reliefs dating from 1959-62. Vase moulds are segmental on the upper loin wall and on the supports of the middle and upper small arches.

Map Reference: Grid ref. H-11.

IOC Reference: G14, VIII-43-2;

ASI Reference: III-245.

Archived IOC Site Record: https://perma.cc/9GE7-G2SA

Mission Credit Line : Mission for Indian History and Archaeology, University of Tokyo, in 1959-60 , 1961-62: the Resurvey of the Delhi Monuments, Research and Information Center for Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo in 2015-18.