The tomb of Jehanara, daughter of the great Emperor Shah Jehan, is a gem of architecture, a dainty bungalow of pure white marble.  The roof is a low dome with broad eaves, and the walls are slabs of thin marble perforated in geometric designs like the finest lace.  The inscription calls her “Heavenly Minded,” and reminds us that “God is the Resurrection and the Life;” that it was her wish that nothing but grass might cover her dust, because “Such a pall alone was fit for the lowly dead,” and closes with a prayer for the soul of her father.  Notwithstanding her wishes, so expressed, the tomb cost $300,000, but such sentiments, which appear upon nearly all of the Mogul tombs, are not to be taken literally.  The inscription over the entrance to one of the grandest in India, where lies “The Piercer of Battle Ranks,” admits that “However great and powerful man may be in the presence of his fellow creatures; however wide his power and influence, and however large his wealth, he is as humble and as worthless as the smallest insect in the sight of God.”  Human nature was the same among the Moguls as it is to-day, and the men who were able to spend a million or half a million dollars upon their sepulchers could afford to throw in a few expressions of humility.

[Illustration:  Tomb of Amir Khusran—­Persian poet—­Delhi. With panels of perforated marble]

The most beautiful of the tombs is that of Amir Khusrau, a poet who died at Delhi in 1315, the author of ninety-eight poems, many of which are still in popular use.  He was known as “the Parrot of Hindustan,” and enjoyed the confidence and patronage of seven successive Moguls.  His fame is immortal.  Lines he wrote are still recited nightly in the coffee-houses and sung in the harems of India, and women and girls and sentimental young men come daily to lay fresh flowers upon his tomb.

In the center of Delhi and on the highest eminence of the city stands the Jumma Musjid, almost unrivaled among mosques.  There is nothing elsewhere outside of Constantinople that can compare with it, either in size or splendor, and we are told that 10,000 workmen were employed upon it daily for six years.  It was built by Shah Jehan of red sandstone inlaid with white marble; is crowned with three splendid domes of white marble striped with black, and at each angle of the courtyard stands a gigantic minaret composed of alternate stripes of marble and red sandstone.  There are three stately portals approached by flights of forty steps, the lowest of which is 140 feet long.  Through stately arches you are led into a courtyard 450 feet square, inclosed by splendid arcaded cloisters.  In the center of the court is the usual fountain basin, at which the worshipers perform their ablutions, and at the eastern side, facing toward Mecca, at the summit of a flight of marble steps, is the mosque, 260 feet long and 120 feet wide.  The central archway is eighty feet high.