Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Haunted Shaniwar Wada Fort Pune

Shaniwar Wada Fort located near on Baji Rao Road near Abhivnav Kala Mandir in Pune. This fort is one of the most horrible places in India. On January 10, 1930 the formal foundation was determined by Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath, More than 16,110 were expensed in contraction of this fort.
Shaniwar Wada Fort 

It was named Shaniwarwada from the Marathi words Shaniwar (Saturday) and Wada (a general term for any residence complex).Teak was foreign from the jungles of Junnar, stone was brought from the close quarries of Chinchwad, and Lime (mineral) was brought from the lime-belts of Jejuri.

The inauguration has been performed in accordance with Hindu spiritual customs, with January twenty-two, 1732, another Sunday chosen to be an especially auspicious time. Later your Peshwas produced several additions, including your fort wall, with bastions and gates; court halls as well as other buildings; fountains in addition to reservoirs. Presently, the outside fort wall membrane has several gateways in addition to nine bastion towers, enclosing any garden complex while using foundations with the original building.
Full moon nights are haunted, especially here. The 13-year-old heir Narayan Peshwa dynasty was brutally murdered. His killers chasing him all over the fort, the boy again and again shouted, "Kaka, mala vachwa!" (Uncle, save me) and even local people help each new moon to midnight on the day that he heard cries. After overnight visitors to the fort can hear the cries for his help.

Shaniwar Wada Fort 

There are five gates of Shaniwar Wada: Dilli Darwaza (Delhi Gate), Mastani Darwaja (Mastani's Gate) or Alibahadur Darwaja, Khidki Darwaja (Window Gate), facing north, Ganesh Darwaja (Ganesh Gate), facing east, Narayan Darwaja (Narayan's Gate) or Jambhul Darwaja, facing south-east.
Delhi Gate each pane grid arranged of a nine-eight to seventy-two twelve-inch steel tack sharps, almost the height of a battle-elephant's forehead. Each panel was also fortified with steel cross members, and extended the boundaries of the cone head was closed with steel bolts.
Narayan's gate was utilized by Kept woman to enter along with leave from fort. It obtains its subsequent name following Narayanrao Peshwa's corpse was stripped away from the fort for cremation through this gate.

The complex has an impressive lotus-shaped fountain: Hazari Karanje (a thousand planes Fountain) complex was an impressive lotus-shaped fountain. It was built for the pleasure of infant Peshwa Sawai Madhavrao. It was designed as a sixteen lotus leaf; each leaf with an eighty-foot arch was sixteen planes. It sleeps most of the time was complex and complicated. In one corner is a marble statue of Ganapati and the castle surrounded by a fountain and a flower garden. "

The impact of tourism towards Haunted Shaniwar Wada Fort Pune,India
Peshwa Baji Rao I, prime minister to Chattrapati Shahu, king of the Maratha empire, laid the ceremonial foundation of his own residence on Saturday, January 10, 1730. It was named Shaniwarwada from the Marathi words Shaniwar(Saturday) and Wada (a general term for any residence complex). Teak was imported from the jungles of Junnar, stone was brought from the nearby quarries of Chinchwad, and Lime (mineral) was brought from the lime-belts of Jejuri. Shaniwarwada was completed in 1732, at a total cost of Rs. 16,110, a very large sum at the time.

The opening ceremony was performed according to Hindu religious customs, on January 22, 1732, another Saturday chosen for being a particularly auspicious day.
Later the Peshwas made several additions, including the fortification walls, with bastions and gates; court halls and other buildings; fountains and reservoirs. Currently, the perimeter fortification wall has five gateways and nine bastion towers, enclosing a garden complex with the foundations of the original buildings. It is situated near the Mula-Mutha River, in Kasba Peth.

Despite its cultural value the fort is not maintained well by the Government. Its inability to maintain the historical Shaniwarwada from the funds provided by central archaeology department forced the fort’s advisory committee’ to woo business houses to fund Shaniwarwada’s makeover.



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