Coping From the Macchi Bhawan, Red fort and Throne in the Diwan-i-Khas in Agra Fort

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Macchi Bhawan ( मच्छी भवन ), in the Agra Fort.

The Macchi Bhawan in the Fort at Agra is the court between the Diwan-i-Am and the Diwan-i-Khas, and was built in the time of the Emperor Shah Jehan, about A.D 1640. See Plate 15, fig. 2.

Coping From the Agra Fort (आगरा के लाल किला ) .

The Fort at Agra was built by Akbar about A.D. 1566. Akbar ordered to renovate the fort with red sandstone in year1558. Some 4000 builders daily worked on it and it was completed in 8 years (1565-1573).
The fort, semi-circular on plan, is surrounded by a 21.4 m high fortification wall with moat and about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) long. Double ramparts have been provided here with broad massive circular bastions at regular intervals. There are four gates on its four sides, one of the gates was called “khizri-gate” (the water gate) which opens to the river front, where ghats (quays) were provided .The fort has survived through the onslaught of time, nature and men. The fort spreads over an area of about 94 acres of land. At present, there exist more than two dozens of monuments in the Fort.

Abul Fazl, a court historian of Akbar, records that 5000 buildings were built here beautifully in Bengali and Gujarati style. Most of these buildings have now disappeared. Shah Jahan himself demolished some of these in order to make room for his white marble palaces. Later, the British destroyed most of the buildings for raising barracks. Hardly 30 Mughal buildings have survived on the southeastern side. Of these, the Delhi-Gate, Akbari-Gate and ‘Bengali-Mahal’, are representative of buildings raised during the reign of Akbar.

Coping from the Throne in the Diwan-i-Khas at Agra.

An inscription runs along the freize of the colonnade the chronogram taken from which gives the date of building as 1046 r., corresponding to A.D 1637

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