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Uploaded by on Mar 7, 2011

Again, this one is from the long list of tombs that dot the landscape of Delhi. I have been seeing this for the last 10 years, lying neglected in overgrowth of the grasses and bushes and to some extent blinded by a certain astrologer's huge sign board under a near-by peepal tree. The place was in ruins unless the ASI started restoration work, one comes to know that it is the tomb of some "Bijri Khan' and the work of the Lodhi period, as to whoBijri Khan was, no one seems to know. As in all my other buildings, this too has the flower motifs and other things like the mantelpiece, which i consider places where idol of deities to have been fixed. But, more interesting here is the the other tomb, a smaller one, in the courtyard of the bigger tomb, which is just referred to as the one from the Tughlaq era, now who does it belong to, for that matter to whom do both the tomb belong to? The second tomb, as is evident in the video, definitely, seems to be a Hindu temple, the mantelpieces inside bigger than the ones in the bigger tomb and surprisingly, it does not even have a grave. To the front of these tombs is a peepal tree, under which there is a prachin mandir, well, for that matter all mandirs in Delhi claim to be prachin (ancient) and seem to be relics of a past glorious, is the story of this mandir, too, the same?

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