The red sandstone tower of Qutab Minar is 72.5 m high, tapering from 14.32 m at its base to 2.75 m in diameter at its peak, and alternating in angular and rounded flutings. |
Cypress trunk flutings and druidlike knees rise everywhere, and mud turtles paddle clumsily through the talmin-mirrored waters. |
In it is a niche, wherein the statue of St. Canice stood, and inverted stone cones with eight grooves, or flutings, for holy water. |
Two broken minarets over the main arch resemble the Qutb in their flutings. |
Fragment of the base of an unfinished column, with torus moulding and horizontal flutings only partially carried out. |