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Humayun's Tomb[edit]

Moved from User talk:Vanjagenije

– Vanjagenije (talk) 07:37, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Humayun's Tomb was built by Hamida Banu Begum not Bega Begum. Please check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuWAMfejnLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4flUSwdQa0

Knandi73 (talk) 05:10, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Knandi73: No, you check it out: ^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

^ Annemarie Schimmel; Burzine K. Waghmar (2004). The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture. Reaktion Books. p. 149.
^ Kamiya, Takeo. "HUMAYUN'S TOMB in DELHI". UNESCO. Retrieved 27 January 2017. In 1565 the previous queen of the Mughal Dynasty, Haji Begum, ordered the construction of the largest and the most splendid mausoleum in the empire for her late ill-fated husband, Humayun, near to the Yamuna River.
^ Burke, S. M. (1989). Akbar, the Greatest Mogul. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. p. 191.
^ Eraly, Abraham (2007). The Mughal world : Life in India's Last Golden Age. Penguin Books. p. 369. ISBN 9780143102625.
^ Smith, Vincent Arthur (1919). Akbar: The Great Mogul 1542-1605. Clarendon Press. p. 125.
^ Henderson, Carol E. (2002). Culture and Customs of India. Greenwood Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780313305139.
^ "Mausoleum that Humayun never built". The Hindu. April 28, 2003. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

The Tomb, Tomb's Plinth, and Garden Dimensions.[edit]

The dimensions listed in this article are incorrect and have no citation. Who came up with these figures? Did you measure the building and dome with the tape measure from your grandma's sewing kit?

According to Glenn Lowry's article, "Humayun's Tomb: Form Function, and Meaning,"

"The plinth is 6.5 m. tall and 99 m. wide, and the elongated drum and double dome of the monument tower 42.5 m. above the ground."

According to a table on page 275 of R. Balasubramaniam's article, "On the Modular Design of Mughal Riverfront Funerary Gardens," the following are true:

1. N-S length of complex (garden) 34853.88cm.

2. E-W length of complex (garden) 34152.84cm.

3. Width of main causeway is 1264.92cm.

4. Width of minor causeway is 518.16cm.

5. E-W and N-S lengths of central platform is 11277.60cm.

6. E-W and N-S lengths of second platform (the red plinth) 9326.88cm.

7. E-W and N-S lengths of mausoleum plinth (marble base of building) 5029.20cm.

So to condense and simplify this information:

The garden is about 349m by 342m.

The main path is about 13m wide.

The side paths are about 5m wide.

The large, tan platform that the Tomb and the red plinth sit on is about 113m x 113m.

The red plinth is about 93m x 93m x 6.5m.

The tomb's base (footprint) is about 50m x 50m.

The tip of the dome reaches 42.5m from the tan platform (the ground).

Did I interpret this correctly?

I did not write this article, and I will not rewrite this article, but I have been using this article as reference for a project and have become incredibly irritated and exasperated by how much of this article is inaccurate. Somebody should at least go through and fix the citations.

BilliTheCat (talk) 02:38, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Built Structures Contained within The Tomb's Wall[edit]

The Garden contains a Hammam, a Baradari, a Mosque, a grave platform, the Barber's Tomb, and the Nizamuddin Chilla.

There are 3 gates. The West Gate, the South Gate, and the Nila Gumbad Gate.

BilliTheCat (talk) 04:37, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[Schimmel-1] Annemarie Schimmel; Burzine K. Waghmar (2004). The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture. Reaktion Books. p. 149.

[2] Kamiya, Takeo. "HUMAYUN'S TOMB in DELHI". UNESCO. Retrieved 27 January 2017. In 1565 the previous queen of the Mughal Dynasty, Haji Begum, ordered the construction of the largest and the most splendid mausoleum in the empire for her late ill-fated husband, Humayun, near to the Yamuna River.

[Burke-3] Burke, S. M. (1989). Akbar, the Greatest Mogul. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. p. 191.

[4] Eraly, Abraham (2007). The Mughal world : Life in India's Last Golden Age. Penguin Books. p. 369. ISBN 9780143102625.

[5] Smith, Vincent Arthur (1919). Akbar: The Great Mogul 1542-1605. Clarendon Press. p. 125.

[6] Henderson, Carol E. (2002). Culture and Customs of India. Greenwood Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780313305139.

[mau-7] "Mausoleum that Humayun never built". The Hindu. April 28, 2003. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

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