70 THE GARDENS OF THE TAJ 



and grapes and its softness is such that to put 

 one's sandalled feet on it would be far from 

 propriety or good manners. In the neighbour- 

 hood of this garden an excellent plot of land 

 came to view which I ordered to be bought from 

 the owners. I ordered a stream that flows 

 from the Guzargah to be diverted into the middle 

 of the ground so that a garden might be made 

 such that in beauty and sweetness there should 

 not be in the inhabited world another like it. 

 I gave it the name of ' World Adorning.' Whilst 

 I was at Kabul I had several entertainments in 

 the City Adorning Garden, sometimes with my 

 intimates and courtiers, sometimes with the 

 ladies of the harem." 



On his visits to various towns the Emperor 

 Jahangir speaks of having planned and built 

 several other gardens. He saw one garden with 

 one hundred mango trees and a huge banyan in 

 it which especially called for remark. On another 

 occasion he had a " nice feast " in the Nagina 

 Bagh, " where a pergola of grapes had ripened." 

 At Ahmedabad he went to a little garden " which 

 had exceedingly good figs," and while there he 

 visited the Fath Bagh (Garden of Victory) and 

 contemplated the red roses. " The plot," he 



