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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]
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]
Mughal Emperor Babur supervising the creation of a garden. The founder of the Mughal empire, Babur, described his favourite type of garden as a charbagh. The term bāgh, baug, bageecha or bagicha is used for the garden. This word developed a new meaning in South Asia, as the region lacked the fast-flowing streams required for the Central Asian ...
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The charbagh garden is meant to symbolise the four flowing Rivers of Paradise. The raised marble water tank (hauz) is called al Hawd al-Kawthar , literally meaning and named after the " Tank of Abundance " promised to Muhammad in paradise where the faithful may quench their thirst upon arrival.