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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 ...
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 ...
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]
The large charbagh (a form of Persian garden divided into four parts) provides the foreground for the classic view of the Taj Mahal, UNESCO World Heritage Site. The concept of the paradise garden was brought from Persia by the Mughals as a form of Timurid garden. They were the first architectural expression the new empire made in the Indian sub ...
They show charbagh-type gardens that featured an enclosing wall, rectangular pools, an internal network of canals, garden pavilions and lush planting. There are surviving examples of this garden type at Yazd (Dowlatabad) and at Kashan . The location of the gardens Kaempfer illustrated in Isfahan can be identified.
' Moonlight Garden ') is a charbagh complex in Agra, North India. It lies north of the Taj Mahal complex and the Agra Fort on the opposite side of the Yamuna River, in the flood plains. [1] [2] The garden complex, square in shape, measures about 300 by 300 metres (980 ft × 980 ft) and is perfectly aligned with the Taj Mahal on the opposite bank.
The garden was further restored in 1924–25 and 1930–34. [2] Following independence, the tomb came under the management of Pakistan's Department of Archaeology. [2] The southern walls at the tomb were swept away by flooding of the River Ravi in 1955, while further flood damage occurred in 1973. [2] The tomb's southern walls were repaired in ...