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The charbagh at the Tomb of Jahangir in Lahore, Pakistan. A charbagh or chaharbagh (Persian: چهارباغ, romanized: chahārbāgh, lit. 'four gardens'; Hindi: चारबाग़ chārbāgh, Urdu: چار باغ chār bāgh, Bengali: চারবাগ) is a Persian and Indo-Persian quadrilateral garden with a layout of four gardens traditionally separated by waterways, together ...
Notable examples of the charbagh include the former Bulkawara Palace in Samarra, Iraq, [5] and Madinat al-Zahra near Córdoba, Spain. [6] Babur Garden (1528), Kabul, Afghanistan, depicts a stepped garden. An interpretation of the charbagh design is conveyed as a metaphor for a "whirling wheel of time" that challenges time and change. [7]
A Mughal garden is a type of garden built by the Mughals. This style was influenced by the Persian gardens particularly the Charbagh structure, [ 1 ] which is intended to create a representation of an earthly utopia in which humans co-exist in perfect harmony with all elements of nature.
The Shalimar Gardens were designed as a Persian-style Charbagh "Paradise garden" - a microcosm of an earthly utopia. [2] Though the word Bagh is translated simply as "garden", bagh represents a harmonious existence between humans and nature, and represents a poetic connection between heaven and earth. [2]
A raised marble water tank at the center of the garden, halfway between the tomb and the gateway, and a linear reflecting pool on the North-South axis reflect the Taj Mahal. Elsewhere the garden is laid out with avenues of trees and fountains. The charbagh garden is meant to symbolise the four flowing Rivers of Paradise.
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