The mysteriously marvellous ruins of Nagara style Architecture.
An Architecture marvel and Asia's most haunted fort! This was super exciting to visit.
During 2019's October, We three friends visited the fort. It was a day trip, we hit the road early morning and reached back home by evening, The Bhangarh fort is located in Rajasthan. It isn't far enough from Delhi where I live.
We were filled with the curiosity to visit the place for it's spooky and structural aspect. Visitors are only allowed during daytime due to safety measures.
This fort was supposed to contain everything required by the people to survive. The leftover ruins are of fort's walls, the temples, shops, royal palaces, tombs, gateways and more. Which are proved by the remains.
This was once the place for royalties of the area to thrive. In geographical aspects the terrain is contour due to the Aravalli hills surrounded also the presence of lush green nature, the place relatively experience high rainfall and it has mostly pleasant weather.
The stoned pathways were present everywhere leading to one place or the other.
Not to the utter surprise, this place had temples been renovated by the government. It is considered to be sacred but no preaching is done due to broken idols and off course the history.
We noticed the marvellous Nagara style of Architecture in the temple. It has some distinguish characteristics like tomb consisting of Kalasha, garbhgriha etc with raised plinth levels, certain kind of columns. It was so interesting to go through, Indian Architectural style are vivid specially north vs south. Nagara style comes under North. I will come up with a dedicated article to Indian styles of Architecture.
It is said that this 16 century old Royal palace had seven stories earlier but now only four are evident. I could recall vividly that it started raining heavily so we had to take the shed of the palace and it as all dark inside due to short time electricity failure and since it wasn't much crowded so we resisted to go inside for our own safety.
It is considered haunted but we didn't experienced any chills although there are many myths surrounded by the palace but the most speculated one was that failure of love spell bound by the princess which was set up by the crocked man of the palace. As a result he cursed the palace for no civilisation to ever flourish.
Since then it is said to be haunted as the palace got abandoned unknowing of the reason. Since I donot know the truth, It's always better not pass a judgement of the story or the condition of the palace.
The landscaping was really appreciative and so is the structure, the arches and stone mouldings on the huge thick walls was commendable considering it was built way back in 16 th century. There was so much more to explore but rain hindered our path, maybe next time I shall bring pictures of details over there.
This was from pre-covid times so no masks. the left picture are ruins of the market . How interesting it is that way back then when no softwares and proper colleges of teaching and helping people with architecture and engineering persisted then also people built these marvellous structured with proper dimensions, drainages and other important amenities.
Also this entire fort and its township was protected by three fortifications including several gates.
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When you mentioned haunted, I was instantly hooked. History, architecture, folklore intertwined. Visiting ruins and forts from old civilizations is impressive because they have limited tools and equipment but their ingenuity created magnificent works that are still present today. Great post, @sahiba-rana
Yes, it is always fascinating to visit such old forts and ruins, moreover this place is Asia's most haunted one and I heard and read the story of a journalist who survived the night there alone and later committed suicide after writing journals about his spooky experiences over there.
Anyways, Thanks for lovey comment @discoveringerni, have a happy week:)
I believe in haunted places and I have personally experienced a few. Looking at the fourth photo, it exudes a foreboding vibe. 😱 That's a scary story of the journalist.
I too believe in paranormal stuff but never experienced one and that story is all over internet.
Rajasthan and Maharashtra are two states in India where the forts inspire the people with the memories of warriors. Many of these forts have now become the landmark architect pieces. Its good to see these pictures and the ruins of markets.
Yes, these ruins speaks a lot about the history of the place and people.
Thanks for your comment @coffeelovers.
Great post buddy!
Thanks buddy.
Hello there @sahiba-rana! I'm also interested in spooky stories because investigating the unknown gives me the thrills. This may sound scary but, sometimes my curiosity leads me down paths that are unexpectedly enjoyable. What architectural details of this ancient fort ruin give you the creeps, if I may ask?
Hi @storiesoferne:)
It is always very interesting to visit such places, The fort is huge, literally. Most part of the time I received no chills but inside of the fort I could see lemons with red powder lying under column in certain places, which was indication of some black magic and that's when it was creepy and also electricity failure bought darkness with rain already pouring so we left the place exploring a very less part of it also it wasn't much crowded at that time.
By the way thanks for your comment :) and sharing you spooky interest :p!
Hmmm, when you said, "lemons with red powder lying under column," my imagination was triggered by how they could have looked like. Thank you for sharing this interesting story!