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HIDDEN Monument Of Delhi Sheesh Mahal
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#Delhi • #SheeshMahal • Sheesh Mahal, Shalimar Bagh, Delhi • Of the many pleasure gardens built by the Mughals north of Shahjahanabad, the Shalimar Bagh is known to be the most extensive. • The gardens were commissioned by Akbarabadi Begum, one of Shahjahan’s wives, in 1653. A similar garden, also known as Shalimar • Gardens, had been constucted by the Begum at Lahore in AD 1641. • Shahjahan was known to have been very fond of this bagh (garden) and used the palace there as a halting place on his royal trips to Kashmir, Punjab, or Lahore. • The garden and the palace within it were the favourite countryhouse of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and the site of his coronation in 1658. • During the British Raj, Sir David Ochterlony and Lord Metcalfe, both British residents in Delhi, used the garden as their summer lodge. • The formal part of the bagh visible today is only a small section of the original, much larger garden, where there was an extensive network of canals, wells and buildings of which mere ruins remain. • Even the remains of the orchard, consisting largely of overgrown fruit trees, is quite pleasant to walk in. In fact, one of the main attractions for visitors to the park is the variety of fruit trees and wild flowers. • The most prominent buildings visible here today are the Sheesh Mahal – the main palace building, the ruins of a canal leading down the centre to a square pool, and two pavilion buildings on the other side of this pool. • The Sheesh Mahal itself is quite a large building, constructed mainly out of Lakhori brick and red sandstone. • Its layout consists of four small rooms with a colonnade of bulbous Shahjahani columns in front. • • There are ornamental niches on the interior walls and traces of lime plaster is visible in parts on the outside, as is some painted decoration, most of which appears to be from the colonial period when the building was used as a country retreat. • There is also an attached building on one side which seems to be a later addition and of which only its solid brick masonry structure now remains, with three large arched openings facing the garden in front. • The most interesting feature of the whole complex is that it has been designed to accentuate the sensory delight of the presence of flowing water nearby, with water being channelled from a now destroyed upper reservoir, through the centre of the Sheesh Mahal, down a canal into the square pool some distance away. • Standing within the large vaulted interior ceiling one can only imagine what a pleasure it must have been to hear the gentle murmur of water cascading down through the building with a view to the distant pool surrounded with various fruit trees and flowering plants. • • The square stepped pool at the other end has beautiful elaborately sculpted kangura (stylized motif that resembles battlements but are strictly ornamental) pattern at its edges. • There is a grid of holes visible at the base of the pool which must have been fountains. The two remaining pavilions now stand as individual buildings, but must have been part of a long pavilion or building that spanned the outflowing canal. • Even on these pavilions, some painted lime plaster decorations are visible, that appear to be from the colonial period. Beyond this, the water dropped again to another square pool with a large central island on which must have stood a pavilion. Outside this complex but within the orchards, there are also remains of a colonial house. • • FOLLOW ME ON * • FB- / om.dubey.16 • INSTAGRAM - / om.dubey
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