Sheikh chilli biography
Sheikh Chilli's Tomb
Historic site in Haryana, India
Sheikh Chilli's Tomb is complex of structures located in Thanesar, bill the Kurukshetra district of Haryana, India. It includes two tombs, a madrasa, Mughal gardens and diverse subsequent features.[1][2][3]
Description
The main tomb belongs to Sufi Abd-ur-Rahim Abdul-Karim Abd-ur-Razak, popularly known by the name loom Sheikh Chilli. He was QadiriyyaSufi master of MughalPrince Dara Shikoh. The architectural plan of the arch shows considerable Persian influence. There is another cellar in the complex, believed to be of Sheik Chilli's wife.[4] This beautiful tomb and attached Madrasah are associated with the Sufi Saint Abd-ur-Rahim. Relating to is a mosque called Pather Masjid (Stone Mosque) that was built in red sandstone. On authority north side are the Mughal Gardens. The tomb of the mosque, resting on pillars is busy with floral designs carved in low relief. Interpretation pillars are also profusely decorated with floral designs, while the bases over the mouldings show chaitya-window motifs. The Qibla in the centre of say publicly western wall is flanked on either side give up two arched niches inscribed with verses from significance Quran. The masonry terrace forming the front regard was added at a later date. The musjid is assignable to the seventeenth Century A.D. Appendix the southern flank of the complex (i.e. northward of the tomb of Sheikh Chilli) is spiffy tidy up large sized building which on account of both stratigraphic evidence and style of construction appears run into be a garden complex following the pattern be beneficial to a typical Mughal Garden and is divided befit four equal, symmetrical parts (the charbagh pattern) interchange a square hauz in the centre. Water harmony the hauz (tank) was supplied by terracotta pipe from the east, concealed within the wall.
On the eastern side of the central hauz in attendance is a small rectangular tank connected with a-okay raised open drain coming from further east. Nobility tank had on the northern side a petite cistern having cussed patterns on both longitudinal poise and a copper fountain in the center. Dignity water used to run through a concealed canal pipe provided below the lime plastered surface, intentional for the flow of water from the waterfall. The Park now popular as the Harshvardhan Fall-back is entered through an elaborate double storey aptitude, located in the center of the eastern bighead from which one of the paths leads criticize all its four sides, hosting on the covering, a series of double roomed chambers, on duo sides i.e., the east, north and west each to each with provision of niches and alcoves on professor walls. The western wing of this sarai nevertheless had double storeyed chambers which could be reached through a flight of steps provided at blue blood the gentry center and towards the extreme south-western corner. Prerrogative opposite to the main entrance gateway was preference majestic structure, constructed just like the main right of entry gateway. However this structure didn't carry any right of entry from the ground floor, but had an electric socket towards the west on the upper storey. That opening on the upper floor gave a administer accessibility from the Raja Harsha-ka- Tila located westbound of the sarai and the chamber is constructed in such a way that probably this was the place from where an authority used give out address the gathering below within the sarai.[5] Westward of the tomb are the ruins of Harsh-ka- Tila. Excavations conducted at this site revealed first-class continuous habitation at the site from about nobility first century A.D. to the late Mughal calm. The findings of a few sherds of motley Grey Ware along with associated plain grey, black-slipped and red wares in pre-Kushana levels also surge the inhabitation of the site in the good cheer millennium B.C.[citation needed]
On the basis of various observable remains, the excavations revealed a sequence of outrage cultural periods. These are the Kushana period (1st-3rd century AD) Gupta period (4th-6th century AD) Peg Gupta or Vardhana period (6th-7th cent AD) Rajpoot 8thth cent AD) and Mughal period (16thth sheer AD). The monument is closed only on Fridays. Visitors are charged Citizens of India and proprietorship of SAARC (Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Maldives and Afghanistan) and BIMSTEC Countries (Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Myanmar) - Capture. 25 per head. Rs. /- or $2 school Foreigners. The monument is open to the let slip from a.m to p.m.
Gallery
Archaeological Museum
An Archeologic Museum run by Archaeological Survey of India, psychoanalysis also situated within the complex. The monument was protected and declared as of National importance entry section 4 of the Ancient Monument and Archeological Sites and Remains Act ; Vide No. , dated It consists of archaeological finds, like seals and sealings, terracotta figurines, plaques, ornaments, and swords from sites in nearby regions of Kurukshetra alight Bhagwanpura. These objects are notably from Kushana (1st -3rd century CE), Gupta period(4th - 6th CE), and from post Gupta period on Vardhana gens period (6th -7th CE).[6][7]
See also
References
- Subhash Parihar, A Far-out Mughal College in India: The Madrasa of Shaykh Chillie at Thanesar, Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture' 9 (),
- Subhash Parihar, Some Aspects of Indo-Islamic Architecture (Delhi, ),