The document summarizes the key differences between the Taj Mahal garden in Agra and the Shalimar Bagh garden in Kashmir. The Taj Mahal garden was built by Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal and follows a strict charbagh layout with four quarters divided by walkways and containing flowerbeds. The Shalimar Bagh garden, built by Emperor Jahangir, is spread over 31 acres with three terraces and contains over 400 fountains fed by elaborate water channels. While both exhibit features of Mughal garden design, the Shalimar Bagh garden is larger in size and features more complex water networks.

1. Difference between
TAJ MAHAL & SHALIMAR
GARDEN
Submittedby :
Moksha Bhatia
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2. What is a Mughal
Garden?
• Mughal gardens are a group of gardens
built by the Mughals in the Islamic style
of architecture .
• This style was influenced by Persian
Gardens and Timurid gardens
• Significant use of Rectilinear Layouts
are made within the walled enclosures

3. Example of rectilinear
layouts

4. Some of the features that can be
determined by seeing previous slide
are :
• Pools
• Fountains
• Canals inside the garden
• Terraced lawns
• Bright flowerbeds
• Great pathways
• Trees of various sort
• Char Bagh planning and many more

5. Something more about Mughal Garden
….
• Its essential features included running water
(perhaps the most important element) and a
pool to reflect the beauties of sky and garden

6. • Trees of various sorts, some to provide shade
merely, and others to produce fruits.
• grass, usually growing wild under the trees

7. • Flowers, colorful and sweet-smelling

8. • birds to fill the garden with song
• the whole is cooled by a pleasant breeze.
• The garden might include a raised hillock at the
center
• The Mughals were obsessed with symbol and
incorporated it into their gardens in many ways.

9. Introduction
TAJ MAHAL
SHALIMAR BAGH
• Location : Agra
• Shah Jahan built for his
favorite wife Mumtaz
Mahal
• Location : Kashmir
• Emperor Jahangir built
his celebrated Shalimar
Bagh, his dream project
to please his queen.

10. Planning
• Plan of taj mahal • Plan of shalimar bagh

11. Area
• Out of the total area
of 580 meter by 300
meter of the Taj
complex, these
gardens alone cover
an area of 300 meter
by 300 meter distance
and are based on
geometric
arrangements of
nature
• The garden covers an
enormous 31 acres
plot along the Dal
Lake. It has three
terraces on 31 acres
of plot with 587 m of
length and 251 m of
depth.

12. Hydrology
• total of 24 fountains
on all four sides
• The entire garden is
divided into four parts,
with two marble
canals studded with
fountains crossing in
the center.
• it has 410 fountains
• It has a central water
channel. Shah Nahar
is the main water
channel in Shalimar
which runs from the
higher or top terraces
to the lower or bottom
terraces of the
garden.

13. Trees
• The trees of the Taj
garden are either that
of Cyprus (signifying
death) or of the fruit
bearing type
(signifying life) and
even they are
arranged in a
symmetrical pattern.
• The walkways of the
garden are decorated
with Aspen trees
which are planted at a
distance of 2 feet
apart . Some of the
varieties of trees that
were planted
includes: •ALMOND
•APPLE •APRICOT
•CHERRY •GOKCHA
, etc.

14. Charbagh concept
• The large charbagh (a
form of Persian
garden divided into four
parts) provides the
foreground for the classic
view of the Taj
Mahal. The garden's
strict and formal planning
employs raised pathways
which divide each quarter
of the garden into 16
sunken parterres or
flowerbeds.
• This garden built on a flat
land on a square plan
with four radiating arms
from a central location as
the water source. Main
channel running through
the garden axially from
top to the lowest point.
This layout left out the
radial arms and the
shape became
rectangular, instead of a
square plan of the
Chahar Bagh.[

15. Pavillions
• Two pavilions occupy
the east and west
ends of the cross
axis, one the mirror of
the other.
• Pavilions at ends
• In the third
terrace, there are two
small pavilions or guard
rooms (built in Kashmir
style on stone plinth).
• Pavilions at third terrace

16. No. of water bodies
• There is one water body
in center depicting char
bagh concept.
• There are 3 water bodies
in a line as marked in
plan.

17. Sketches

18. Thank you