5 Mihrab Graveyard at Vasant Vihar (Mission for Indian History and Archaeology)
New Delhi, Afghanistan

1959-62 Survey


Located approximately 1.4 km west-northwest of Munīrkā village. Grid ref. E-10

This graveyard is built on a plinth surrounded by a low wall and has turrets in its four corners. In the west, there is a wall mosque with five miḥrābs and side walls—period III. IOC: VII-43; ASI: IV-128


ムニールカー部落の西北西約1.4キロメートルにある。附図.E-10

この墓地は,四隅に小塔をもち,低い囲壁に囲まれた基壇の上にあり,西の部分に,五つのミフラーブと袖壁とをもつ礼拝壁をそなえている。第Ⅲ期。

東研.Ⅶ-43;ASI.Ⅳ-128


2015-18 Survey


No remains of this structure could be found in the 2015 and 2018 surveys.


[現状]2015・18年の調査では確認することができなかった。

[全体構成]基壇を持ち、東辺中央階段が入口となる。Monuments of Delhiによれば、内法東西6.9m南北7.7m、内部に2つの墓石と墓石痕跡がある。囲壁の袖壁から多弁形アーチを打ち抜いたパターンを繰り返し、囲壁4隅にリブ付塔型を立てる点が際立つ。リブ断面は丸型と角型を繰り返す。

[壁モスク]中央ミフラーブを立上げ、西壁両端にリブ付塔型を備え、西壁と同高の袖壁を持ち、袖壁アーチを開口する。中央ミフラーブは、アーチの両端上部に小アーチ枠を配し、凹凸の十字形紋、蓮弁形の頂部飾とする。中央アーチ・スパンドレルのメダイオンにはアラビア文字のスタッコ装飾がある。頂部飾は壁に回り、中央ミフラーブ両脇、囲壁4隅、袖壁端部、東側入口両端に円形断面タレットがたつ。


(Paragraphs 2nd & 3rd from the 2015-18 Survey are translated using Google Translate)


[Overall structure] It has a platform, and the entrance is a central staircase on the east side.

According to Monuments of Delhi, the interior dimensions are 6.9m east-west and 7.7m north-south, and there are two gravestones and gravestone traces inside. The pattern of multi-lobed arches punched from the side walls of the wall is repeated, and ribbed towers are erected at the four corners of the wall. The cross-section of the ribs alternates between round and square.


[Wall Mosque] The central mihrab is erected, with ribbed towers on both ends of the west wall, and sleeve walls of the same height as the west wall, with opening arches in the sleeve walls. The central mihrab has small arch frames at the top of both ends of the arch, and has a concave-convex cross pattern and a lotus-shaped top ornament. The medallions on the spandrels of the central arch are decorated with stucco in Arabic letters. The top ornament wraps around the wall, and there are circular turrets on both sides of the central mihrab, at the four corners of the surrounding wall, at the ends of the sleeve walls, and at both ends of the eastern entrance.


Map Reference: Grid ref. E-10

IOC Reference: G25, VII-43

ASI Reference: IV-128

Archived IOC Site Record: https://perma.cc/4MNP-EPD9


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.

Location

E-7, Block E, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, Afghanistan

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Events

The structure was constructed during the rule of the Lodi and the Sayyid dynasties of the Delhi Sultanate, Period III, corresponding to Gregorian years 1414-1525 CE; Hijri 816-931 AH.

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Dimensions

Interior dimensions are 6.9m east-west and 7.7m north-south

Additional Names

5 Mehrab Graveyard at Vasant Vihar
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5 Miḥrāb Graveyard at Vasant Vihar
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