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The Arabic inscriptions inside the building gives the whole genealogy or Malik Rajpal, descending from Firozuddin Jam Unar, and thus relating, to a collateral line of Jam Nizamuddin. Unfortunately it is not dated but the building may be placed in the fifteenth century A.D. It is situated to the north-east of the tomb of Mubarak Khan. The single-domed square building, which measures 24-ft. 10-in. each side stone courses upto a height of 6 half feet above ground level and thereafter brick courses follow. It is open on all four sides by lancet-shaped arched openings. A vertical brick lining on either side of the entrance makes two vertical panels. In the present example the corner squinch starts just above the stone course and then a series of pendentives turn the octagon into a circular base for the dome. There is dental basal decoration as a lining below the domical ceiling.

[Source: Thatta: Islamic Architecture by Ahmad Hassan Dani | Photographs and Coordinates: EFT]

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