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<div>{{short description|16th century Mughal garden in Agra, India}}<br />
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[[File:The Indian empire- history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land (14769184302).jpg|thumb|Agra, from the Jahara Baug]]<br />
The '''Aram Bagh''' is the oldest [[Mughal Gardens|Mughal Garden]] in India, originally built by the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] [[Babur|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]].<br />
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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.<ref name="K">Koch, p.37-41</ref><br />
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The name is a corruption of the [[Persian language|Persian]] ''Aaram Bagh'' meaning 'Garden of Rest'.<ref>[http://www.ncl.ac.uk/unescolandscapes/files/KAUSARSajjad.pdf Meaning of Mughal Landscape]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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 gardener there, by lying idle for 6 days until she agreed to marry him.<ref name="K"/><br />
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[[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.<ref name="K"/><br />
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==Citations==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{cite book | last = Koch | first = Ebba | title = The Complete Taj Mahal: And the Riverfront Gardens of Agra | type = Hardback | edition = First | publisher = Thames & Hudson Ltd | isbn = 0-500-34209-1 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/completetajmahal0000koch/page/288 288 pages] | url = https://archive.org/details/completetajmahal0000koch/page/288 }}<br />
*{{cite web| url = http://www.gardenvisit.com/ge/ram_bagh.htm| title = Gardens guide - Aram Bagh| access-date = 2007-03-14| last = Turner| first = Tom| year = 1998| publisher = Gardenvisit.com| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061016214330/http://www.gardenvisit.com/ge/ram_bagh.htm| archive-date = 16 October 2006| url-status = dead| df = dmy-all}}<br />
*{{cite web| url = http://www.agrahub.com/agra-monuments/rambagh-gardens.html| title = Arambagh Gardens Agra| access-date = 2007-03-14| publisher = Agra hub| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070406040937/http://www.agrahub.com/agra-monuments/rambagh-gardens.html| archive-date = 2007-04-06}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite web| url = http://www.archnet.org/library/pubdownloader/pdf/3848/doc| title = The Mughal Waterfront Garden. In Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design| access-date = 2007-02-13| author = Petruccioli, Attilio (ed.)| author2 = Koch, Ebba| year = 1997| publisher = E. J. Brill}}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100130185156/http://www.pem.org/library/collections/offen The Herbert Offen Research Collection of the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum]<br />
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[[Category:Mughal gardens in India]]<br />
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Agra]]<br />
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[[Category:Gardens in Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
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