178 GARDENS OF THE DAL LAKE 



Bagh shows that a Mughal garden need not 

 necessarily be large to prove attractive. 



The enclosure, small as it is, has all the charm 

 and shows the same Mughal feeling for sensation, 

 as its great rivals round the lake. The copious 

 spring round which it is built bubbles up in a 

 large stone vase in the haU of the upper pavilion. 

 The garden in front of this building is an oblong 

 of about an acre divided into two terraces. A 

 stone chabutra with a shallow carved fountain 

 basin, something after the fashion of those at 

 Hazrat Bal, is the feature of the upper terrace. 

 A tiny carved water -chute brings the narrow 

 canal rippling down three feet to the second 

 terrace, in the centre of which is a tank with a 

 single fountain jet ; the water running on through 

 another pavilion at the end of the garden. These 

 buildings are characteristic Afghan structiires 

 on older stone foundations. Walking through 

 the hall to the arched openings overlooking the 

 Dal, where the wall is boimded by a black marble 

 rail, a relic of Mughal times, the lower garden 

 comes as a complete surprise. The narrow 

 water -chute slopes sharply down eighteen or 

 more feet to a second enclosure, about half the 

 size of the upper garden. In the centre is 



