100 GARDENS OF THE PLAINS DELHI 



of mountain rivulets in the builder's northern 

 home. 



A small pavilion stands on the terrace at the 

 far side of the garden overlooking the plains and 

 the river, which formerly ran much nearer to the 

 walls. On the garden side it overlooks two large 

 sunk plots, doubtless once laid out in parterres 

 resembling those in the Anguri Bagh, so that 

 on looking back, the mausoleum was seen across 

 a blaze of flowers interspersed with cypress trees. 



This enclosure, with its square plots and 

 innumerable narrow watercourses, shows very 

 clearly how all the details of the Mughal garden 

 were evolved from the simple necessity of irriga- 

 tion. In India the Hindus relied chiefly on their 

 big rivers and the water collected in tanks during 

 the heavy summer rainfall, but in Persia and 

 Turkestan there are few rivers, so that numbers 

 of artificial channels were made for irrigation 

 and for the supply of water to the towns and 

 villages. At first these Persian and Turki 

 gardens, laid out after the old fourfold plan, 

 were subdivided into numerous plots by the 

 little water - runnels. In the richer gardens 

 these tiny channels were edged with cut stone 

 and further elaborated by the addition of small 



