Ram Bagh
The Ram Bagh is the oldest Mughal Garden in India, originally built by the
Mughal Emperor Babur in 1528, located about five kilometers northeast of the
Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Babur was temporarily buried there before being
interred in Kabul.
The garden is a Persian garden, where pathways and canals divide the garden
to represent the Islamic ideal of paradise, an abundant garden through which
rivers flow. The Aram Bagh provides an example of a variant of the charbagh
in which water cascades down three terraces in a sequence of cascades. Two
viewing pavilions face the Jumna River and incorporates a subterranean 'tahkhana'
which was used during the hot summers to provide relief for visitors. The
garden has numerous water courses and fountains.
The name is a corruption of the Persian Aaram Bagh meaning 'Garden of Rest'.
It is also variously known as Bagh-i Nur Afshan 'Light-Scattering Garden',
Aalsi Bagh or 'Lazy Garden': according to legend, Emperor Akbar proposed to
his third wife, who was a Gardner there, by lying idle for 6 days until she
agreed to marry him.
Jahangir waited in the garden in early March 1621 for the most
astrologically auspicious hour for him to enter Agra after he took the Fort
of Kangra. The preserved, surviving architecture dates to his reign and
demonstrates the skill of his wife Nur Jahan as a garden designer.
Sources: Wikipedia
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