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The Gujari Mahal Archeological Museum or State Archaeological Museum, sometimes called the "Gwalior Fort Museum", is a state museum in Gwalior, located in the fortress of Gujari Mahal. [1] It displays numerous artifacts of the region, including a fragment of the Garuda capital of the Heliodorus pillar from Vidisha .
The outer structure of the Gujari Mahal has survived in an almost total state of preservation, the interior has been now converted into an archaeological museum. Within Gwalior Fort, also built by Man Singh Tomar, is the Man Mandir Palace, [18] built between 1486 CE and 1517 CE. The tiles that once adorned its exterior have not survived, but at ...
The Gujari Mahal situated in Hisar, Haryana (built in 1354) still hums the immortal love story of Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq and his lover a native lady of the Gurjar tribe. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] According to the story, when one day Emperor Firoz Shah Tughlaq went out for hunting he felt thirsty in the dense forest, but there was a great shortage ...
Gujari Mahal also called Gwalior Fort Museum located in Gwalior Fort. It was built by Raja Man Singh Tomar for his wife Mrignayani, a Gujar princess. The Scindia School is situated in the historic Gwalior Fort. This school was established in 1897 by Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia. It is one of the most expensive school of India. [3]
This chhatri (cupola or domed shaped pavilion) was built as a memorial to Bhim Singh Rana (1707–1756), a ruler of Gohad state. It was built by his successor, Chhatra Singh. Bhim Singh occupied Gwalior fort in 1740 when the Mughal Satrap, Ali Khan, surrendered. In 1754, Bhim Singh built a bhimtal (a lake) as a monument at the fort.
The palace is built of rubble masonry and lime mortar. The palace building has between one and three rooms on the north, west, and east sides, but it is several rooms deeper on the south side where the bulk of the structure lies. The north and west sides have arched passages built into the fort's bastion and have no windows.
Mata Gujri was born to Lal Chand, a Subhikkhī Khatri [4] and Mata Bishan Devi, who lived at Kartarpur. [5]She was betrothed to Guru Tegh Bahadur in 1629 when he visited Kartarpur for the marriage celebrations of his brother, Suraj Mal.
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