"The entrance to the outer court passes under an arched gateway, remarkable only for its preposterous height; and one of the exhibitions with which you are indulged during a visit to the tomb is to be mounted on the top of this archway by a flight of steps so steep and narrow as to be really frightful to one not accustomed to them..."
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The Buland Darwaza and the cauldrons described by Colonel Broughton, quoted in Ajmer Historical and Descriptive (1941) by Sarda Har Bilas
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