GARDENS DURING MUGHAL REGIME

S. V. Taneja

The Mughals: from Akbar’s regime, allured by Valley’s scintillating beauty;

It’s crystalline springs, meadows, lakes and streams;

Luxuriant in flora, fauna and in forestry;

With laid out gardens in artistry with clipped trees and rockeries;

The water-fountains flowing down bubbling, murmuring in unusual luminosity;

Flowers in meads and at hills, in springs, summers to be;

In blues and whites irises, primroses, daisies, daffodils, poppies;

And in lilacs, flax, campanulas, gentians, blushing giant roses;

And water-lilies and lotuses and others myriads in hues,

With delicious fruits and odours sweet;

In almonds, cherries, peaches, pears, plums, apricots, apples too;

With majestic and shaded chinars, on lawns velvety’

And forests at river banks and at alpines.,

In abundances in cypress, pine, birch, deodar and willow trees;

Such was ‘the nature’s bounty.

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