Daria Daulat Bagh
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Indo-Saracenic | |
Daria Daulat Bagh (literally "Garden of the Sea of Wealth') is a palace located in the city of
teakwood
.
Description
Srirangapatna is an island in the river
Tippu Sultan popularly known as the "Tiger of Mysore", built this palace in 1784 and ruled Mysore from here for a short time after his father Hyder Ali wrested power from the Wodeyars in the middle of the 18th century. The palace is built in the Indo-Saracenic style and is mostly made of teakwood. The palace has a rectangular plan and is built on a raised platform. There are open corridors along the four sides of the platform with wooden pillars at the edges of the plinth
. The western and eastern wings have walls the other two wings have recessed bays with pillars supporting the roof. The four staircases are inconspicuous, built in the four partition walls that divide the audience hall into four rooms at four corners with a central hall connecting the eastern and western corridors.
All of the space available on the walls, pillars, canopies, and arches have colorful frescoes in the style of
Krishnaraja Wodeyar II.[2]
On the top floor of the Daria Daulat Palace is the Tippu Sultan Museum. It has a collection of Tippu memorabilia, European paintings, and Persian manuscripts. The museum has the painting Storming of Srirangapattanam, an oil painting by Sir
Gumbaz that contains Tippu's tomb, his father Haider Ali's tomb and his mother's tomb.[3]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Daria Daulat Bagh.
- ISBN 0863114318.
- ISBN 978-0190088903.
- ^ "Dariya Daulat Palace Srirangapatna". mysore.org.uk/. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
