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'''Teen Darwaza''' is a historical [[city gate|gateway]] on the east of [[Bhadra Fort]], [[Ahmedabad]], [[India]]. Completed in 1415, it is associated with historical as well as legendary events. The gates are featured in the logo of [[Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation]].

==History and architecture==

The ''Teen Darwaza'' was an egress from [[Bhadra Fort]] to the eastward. The gateway has three arches which led into a large enclosure, forming the outer courtyard of the palace called ''Maidan Shah'' in past, with a fountain and raised terrace in the centre. The roadway in the central opening is 17 feet wide, and that of each side arch is 13 feet wide. It has highly decorated buttresses on the faces of piers between the arches. The height of the arches is twenty-five feet. The terrace on the top of the gateway was formerly roofed over. But in 1877 the gateway was repaired, and the terrace thrown open. Here the great feudatories or foreign embassies assembled before approaching the presence, and the sovereign enthroned on the terrace, mustered the troops for martial enterprises and gala-day reviews, or held court in the cool of the evening beside the splashing fountain. Now the area is congested market.<ref name="Planet2012">{{cite book|author=Lonely Planet|title=Lonely Planet Gujarat: Chapter from India Travel Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tad9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT29|date=1 April 2012|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74321-201-1|page=29}}</ref><ref name="Yagnik2011">{{cite book|author=Achyut Yagnik|title=Ahmedabad: From Royal city to Megacity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivMAUx6Hdl8C&pg=PT26|date=2 February 2011|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-81-8475-473-5|page=26}}</ref>

It was built by [[Ahmad Shah I]] immediately after the foundation of Ahmedabad and completed in 1415.<ref name=date>{{cite book|title=Earthquake Spectra: The Professional Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute|year = 2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSlIAQAAIAAJ|publisher=The Institute|page=242}}</ref> Through it, in 1459, [[Mahmud Begada]], king for only a few months, and not fifteen years old, quiver on back and bow in hand, with only 300 horsemen, marched to disperse his rebel nobles and their 30,000 followers. Leaving the palace, the young king ordered the roads leading to it to be held by elephants, and, with the royal music playing, marched slowly along the main street. His cool bravery gave some of his faithful nobles time to join, and forming a considerable force, though small compared with the insurgents, attacked them, put them to flight, and destroyed their leaders.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} Later the newly appointed Maratha governors used to aim five arrows at one of its beams, and augur good or ill to their administration in accordance with their success in striking it.<ref name="Planet2012"/><ref name="Yagnik2011"/>

===Maratha Inscription===
[[File:3gates inscription.JPG|thumb|Maratha inscription on pillar of ''Teen Darwaza'' about inheritance of property to female members of family|left]]
Maratha governor Chimnaji Raghunath decreed and inscribed ''farman'' on Teen Darwaza in 1812 declaring equal right to women in inheritance of ancestral property. Raghunath had appealed to Hindu and Muslims both. This plaque engraved in Devnagari script and dated 10 October 1812 reads, ''Let the daughter get her due share of fathers property without any hitch. So is Lord Vishwanath's command. If you defy, the Hindu will have to answer Mahadev and the Mussalman will have to explain to Allah or Rasool.''<ref name="Times2011">{{cite web | title=MARATHA MAGIC:Abad always saved the girl child! | publisher=[[The Times of India]] Publications | date=8 February 2011 | page=34 | url=http://lite.epaper.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes&pageid=34&edlabel=TOIA&mydateHid=08-02-2011&pubname=&edname=&articleid=Ar03400&format=&publabel=TOI | accessdate=11 January 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706210636/http://lite.epaper.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes | archive-date=6 July 2009 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="The Times of India2008">{{cite news | title=Girls got property rights in 1800s | website=The Times of India | date=2008-01-20 | url=http://m.timesofindia.com/city/ahmedabad/Girls-got-property-rights-in-1800s/articleshow/2715094.cms | accessdate=2015-01-11}}</ref>

===Eternal lamp===

;Legend
Years ago, [[Laxmi]], the Goddess of Wealth, came to the gate of the Bhadra Fort to leave the city in the night. Watchman Khwaja Siddique Kotwal stopped her and identified her. He asked her not to leave the fort until he obtained a permission from the king, Ahmad Shah. He went to the king and beheaded himself in order to keep Laxmi in the city. It resulted in the prosperity of the city.<ref name="The Times 2013">{{cite news | title=Lamp of hope burns bright at historic Teen Darwaza| website=The Times of India| date=3 September 2013 | url=http://m.timesofindia.com/city/ahmedabad/Lamp-of-hope-burns-bright-at-historic-Teen-Darwaza/articleshow/22240853.cms | accessdate=11 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="kk">{{cite news | url=http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=3&contentid=201102242011022403033528333ee5e43 | title=Kankaria to showcase city | work=[[Ahmedabad Mirror]] | date=24 February 2011 | accessdate=22 February 2013 | author=Jadav, Ruturaj | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091207235844/http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?page=article | archivedate=7 December 2009 }}</ref>

There is a tomb near Bhadra Gate of the fort dedicated to Siddique Kotwal and a temple to Bhadra Kali, representing Laxmi.<ref name="kk"/> A lamp in one of the niche of ''Teen Darwaza'' is burning there for more than six hundred years by a Muslim family in a dedication to the legend.<ref name="The Times 2013"/>

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed">
Image:Teen Darwaja (Tran Darwaja).jpg|''Teen Darwaza''
Image:3gates.JPG|''Teen Darwaza''
Image:Teen Darwaza.JPG|Roadside vendors at ''Teen Darwaza''
File:Teen Darwaza Triple Gateway Ahmedabad 1866.jpg|Teen Darwaza in 1866
File:Ahmdedabad Teen Darwaza India 1890.jpg|Street scene of 1890
</gallery>

==References ==
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* ''This article contains public domain text from''
** {{cite book|author1=Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope|author2=James Fergusson|title=Architecture at Ahmedabad, the Capital of Goozerat|url=https://archive.org/details/Ahmedabad_126468|year=1866|publisher=J. Murray|page=[https://archive.org/details/Ahmedabad_126468/page/n67 42]}}
** {{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EL4IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275|year=1879|publisher=Government Central Press|pages=273–277}}
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[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1415]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Ahmedabad]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Ahmedabad]]
[[Category:Gates in India]]
[[Category:Monuments of National Importance in Gujarat]]

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