While going towards Shalimar Gardens from railway station, on the left side of G.T road, next to the UET, there is a quite visible magnificent gateway (Gulabi Bagh Gateway). The gateway aperture frames the monument known as Dai Anga’s tomb. In this spectacular tomb, mortal remains of Dai Anga, the wet nurse of Mughal Emperor Shahajahan and his daughter Shahzadi Sultan Begam are buried. Dai Anga was wife of Murad Khan, a Magistrate in Mughal court.There is an impressive structure of considerable height of a double storey building on the location, known as Gulabi Bagh Gateway. It is evident from its nomenclature that this was an entrance to a rose garden (Gulabi Bagh), the title Gulabi Bagh occurs in the last line of the inscription over the archway which does not only describe the kind of the garden but also as a chronogram gives the date of its construction,1657 A.D. The Gulabi Bagh was constructed by or in the memory of Mirza Sultan Baig, a Persian nobleman and cousin of Shahjahan,s son –in-law Mirza Ghiyas-ud- Din (married to princess Sultan Begam). Mirza Sultan Baig was Ameer-ul- Bahr (Admiral of fleet) in the court of Shahajahan. It is said that in 1657 A.D. while on a hunting excursion to the royal hunting reserve (kamargah) at Hiran Minar near Sheikhupura, he died of the firearm (an English rifle), presented to him by the emperor, due to bursting of a shell during hunting.
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