Bani Begum Park, Aurangabad

Bani Begum Park, Aurangabad

Bani Begum Park is a beautiful place 25 km from the city. Is situated at this distance. A dome named Bani Begum is also situated in the middle of this park, Bani Begum was the name of Begum of Azam Shah, son of Aurangzeb.
The park also has domes, waterfalls and beautiful pillars, which are great specimens of the Mughal style of architecture.

One of the first acts of Mughal Emperor Babur, when he arrived in India to stay in 1526, was to construct gardens to make “that charmless and disorderly Hind, more like home”. By “more like home” he was referring no doubt to the Persian gardens of Uzbekistan where he was born and grew up. Built by Babur’s illustrious ancestor Timur, these gardens were walled, enclosed spaces for relaxation and meeting with friends. The word used to describe such gardens was “pari-daiza” from which we get the Arabic “Firdaus” and English “paradise”. These gardens were supposed to be a sort of paradise-on-earth and evolved slowly into the Persian “charbagh” o “chahar bagh”, literally meaning four gardens. The charbagh was a garden divided into four quadrants by water channels. Those four quadrants would represent earth while the water channels were representative of the four rivers of Eden. As the Mughal Empire expanded the Persian garden that Babur had brought with him, turned into the Mughal garden and spread through the land. The most well-known example of this is the one that surrounds the Taj Mahal. In Mughal India creating a charbagh around a tomb was a fairly common practice.