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| Location | Achabal,Anantnag district,India |
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| Region | Asia |
| Coordinates | 33°40′59″N75°13′20″E / 33.6831°N 75.2222°E /33.6831; 75.2222 |
| Type | MughalGardens |
| Length | 142 metres (466 ft) |
| Width | 14 metres (46 ft) |
| Area | 1,952.4 square metres (21,015 sq ft) |
| History | |
| Builder | Nur Jahan |
| Founded | 1620; 406 years ago (1620) |
| Cultures | Mughal Empire |
| Site notes | |
| Condition | Rebuilt |
| Public access | Public garden |
Achabal Gardens, "the places of the princes", is a smallMughal garden located at the southeastern end of theKashmir Valley in the town ofAchabal,Anantnag district,India. The town is located near theHimalayan Mountains.[1]
The garden was built around 1620 A.D. byMughal EmpireEmperor Jahangir's wife,Nur Jahan. It was remodeled by Jahanara, who was the daughter ofShah Jahan around 1634-1640 A.D. The garden was rebuilt, following decay, on a smaller scale byGulab Singh and it is now a public garden.[1]
A main feature of the garden is a waterfall that enters into a pool of water.[2] This place is also noted for its spring, which is said to be the re-appearance of a portion of the river Bringhi, whose waters suddenly disappear through a large fissure underneath a hill at the village Wani Divalgam in the Brang Pargana. It is said that in order to test this, a quantity of chaff was thrown in the Bringhi river at a place its water disappears at Wani Divalgam and that chaff came out of the Achabal spring. The water of the spring issues from several places near the foot of a low spur which is densely covered with deodar trees and at one place it gushes out from an oblique fissure large enough to admit a man's body and forms a volume some 46 centimetres (18 in) high and about 30 centimetres (12 in) in diameter.[3]
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