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The Aram Bagh is the oldest Mughal garden in India, originally built by Emperor Babur, the first Mughal emperor, in 1526,[1] located about five kilometers northeast of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Babur was temporarily buried there before being interred in Kabul.
The name Aaram Bagh translates to 'Garden of Rest'.[2]
When Emperor Babur laid out this garden, he named it 'Bāgh-i-Gul Afshān' (lit.'The Flower-Scatterer Garden'). It was later renamed as Aram Bagh or the 'Garden of Rest'.[2] When the Marathas came to power in Agra between 1774 and 1803, they changed the name from 'Aram Bagh' to 'Ram Bagh', and the name has remained ever since.[3]
It is also variously known as 'Bagh-i Nur Afshan' which translates to '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 six days until she agreed to marry him.[4]
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.[4]
ジャハーンギールは1621年3月初旬、カングラ城を攻略した後、アーグラに入るのに占星術的に最も縁起の良い時間を庭園で待っていた。ジャハーンギールは庭園にいくつかの増築を行い、その中には2つの大理石のパビリオンと多数のチャトリが含まれている。保存されている現存する建築物は彼の治世のものであり、彼の妻ヌール・ジャハーンの庭園設計者としての腕前を示している。[ 4 ] [ 1 ]
トーマス・ショッター・ボーイズの絵画の版画は、1835年のフィッシャーのドローイングルーム・スクラップブックに、レティシア・エリザベス・ランドンによる詩的な挿絵（シャー・ダラの逃亡と死の歴史）「ジャハラ・バウグ、アグラ」とともに収められている。[ 5 ]