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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Palace built for hunting by Mughal Emperor Jahangir}}<br />
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| location = [[Ajmer]], India<br />
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| completion_date = 1615<br />
| owner = Mughal Emperor [[Jahangir]]<br />
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'''Nur Chashma''' is a palace built by Mughal Emperor [[Jahangir]] for hunting in 1615 and christened the place ''Chashma-i-Nur'' (چشما نور – spring of light)'','' after his own name, [[Jahangir|Nur-uddin Mohammad Jahangir]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sarda|first=Har Bilas|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.213052|title=Ajmer: Historical And Descriptive.|date=1911}}</ref> It is situated in present-day [[Ajmer]], India and is now just a ruined pavilion.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kumar|first=Arjun|title=Ajmer: Beyond the dargah|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/travel/ajmer-beyond-the-dargah/articleshow/8687704.cms?from=mdr|access-date=26 June 2021|archive-date=26 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626162030/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/travel/ajmer-beyond-the-dargah/articleshow/8687704.cms?from=mdr|url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
Hafiz Jamal, the daughter of [[Mu'in al-Din Chishti|Khawaja Muinuddin Chisti]], lived for some time as a religious recluse here. [[Jahangir]] came to [[Ajmer]] in 1613 A.D. and built a hunting palace here and named it ''Mahal Shah Nur-ud-din Jahangir'' (̠Palace of King Jahangir).<br />
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Jahangir lived in Ajmer for nearly three years (1613 to 1619 A.D.) The Emperor himself describes the place in ''[[Tuzk-e-Jahangiri|Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri]]'' and ordered a palace to be built in the valley and some couplets to inscribed on a stone and the stone to be fixed over the arch of the lower building.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Jahangir|first1=Emperor of Hindustan|url=http://archive.org/details/tuzukijahangirio00jahauoft|title=The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri; or, Memoirs of Jahangir. Translated by Alexander Rogers. Edited by Henry Beveridge|last2=Rogers|first2=Alexander|last3=Beveridge|first3=Henry|date=1909–1914|publisher=London Royal Asiatic Society|others=Robarts – University of Toronto}}</ref> [[Thomas Roe|Sir Thomas Roe]] also describe this place as a 'Place of melancholy delight' in his Journal.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Roe|first1=Thomas|url=http://archive.org/details/embassysirthoma01fostgoog|title=The embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the court of the Great Mogul, 1615–1619, as narrated in his journal and correspondence|last2=Foster|first2=William|date=1899|publisher=London, Printed for the Hakluyt society|others=Harvard University}}</ref><br />
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There is another historical important relics, the massive unfinished water lift, now known "Roothi Rani Ka Mahal" as built by [[Maldev Rathore|Rao Maldeva]] of [[Mewar|Merwar]], who took Ajmer in 1535 A.D. The lift was consist of a chains of towers, one overlooking the other, and the water was to be raised from the Chashma to the fort of [[Taragarh Fort, Ajmer|Taragarh]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tod|first=James|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.23699|title=Annals And Antiquities Of Rajasthan Vol.2|date=1914}}</ref><br />
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The Chashma valley widens a little towards the end and it was here that the historic Battle of Ajmer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Battle of Deorai {{!}} Indian history|url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Deorai|access-date=26 June 2021|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|language=en|archive-date=26 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626162029/https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Deorai|url-status=live}}</ref> fought between [[Dara Shikoh]] and [[Aurangzeb]] and decided the fate of the rightful heir of [[Shah Jahan]].<br />
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