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Posted on: 13 November 2011
Digital Rare Book:
With Sa'di in the Garden or The Book of Love.
Embodied in a dialogue held in the Garden of the Taj Mahal, at Agra
By Sir Edwin Arnold
Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston - 1888
Read Book Online : http://www.archive.org/stream/withsadiingarden00arnoiala#page/n7/mode/2up
Download pdf book : http://ia700407.us.archive.org/14/items/withsadiingarden00arnoiala/withsadiingarden00arnoiala.pdf
Image details : Bird's Eye View of the Taj Mahal at Agra 1790-1810 Unidentified, Indian Pen and opaque watercolor on paper H: 52.8 W: 34.4 cm India Source : Smithsonian Museum
This is the first time I have seen an outline of the "Bagh-e- Mehtab" opposite the Taj Mahal on the other side of the Jamuna. The rest is illegible. One of the four posts on the corners, in redstone, can be seen even today.
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