Vidhyadhar Bhattacharya, the great

Architect of Jaipur
June 26, 2013 By Suganyasree Rajesh
Source: www.pinkcity.com
Jaipur is one of the well-designed cities in India. Often, Jaipur is called as The Pink City of
Rajasathan. Also, there is a tale behind this name. Around 1905-1906, Prince of Wales visited
Jaipur. So, there was a desperate necessitate for the city to come into view as a good-looking
conurbation. For this reason, the city was repainted. However, due to the lack of sufficient colors
of paints, the painters decorated the entire city in pink shade. Jaipur is famous for its charming
monuments and vivid markets, stunning handlooms and magnificently designed gardens.
People in Jaipur are smiling and welcoming. Jaipur is celebrated for its grandiose forts,
luxurious Havelis, gorgeous lakes and awesome sand dunes. Jaipur is not only gifted with
astonishing tourist attractions but also has an admirable infrastructure to sustain the tourism.
Jaipur boasts some of the best hotels of the nation. These hotels harmonize the picturesque
and architecture attractiveness of the Pink City.

The Brilliant Architect of Jaipur:

The city of Jaipur is well-off in its artistic and architectural charm, which can be traced in an
assortment of chronological and artistic destinations that dwell in the city. The credit for
designing the beautiful city of Jaipur goes to Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, a Brahmin scholar who
belongs to Bengal. Vidyadhar Bhattacharya created wonderful plans in line with the prehistoric
Hindu dissertation on architecture known as Shilpa Shastra, the science of Indian structural
design.
According to this, the city of Jaipur was constructed in 9 rectangular blocks. 7 of these blocks
were created to serve for the civic and the remaining 2 comprised state buildings and palaces.
The city of Jaipur was further surrounded by the city wall and entrance was through the 7 gates.
With the intention to ensure the defense, gigantic fortification walls were created together with 7
burly gates.

History of Jaipur city:

The olden times of Jaipur takes the readers to more or less 300 years back in history, when the
Mughal Kingdom in India was turned down. Jaipur, the pink city of Rajasthan was established in
the year 1727 by the great Maharaja Jai Singh II who was a Kachhwaha Rajput. He ruled the
region from the year 1699 to 1744. In the beginning, Maharajas capital city was Amber. Amber
is placed at a distance of about 11kms from the city of Jaipur. However, Maharaja wanted to
move his capital city to some other place owing to the raise in residents and mounting
insufficiency of water. So, Maharaja Jai Singh decided to create Jaipur. As a matter of fact,
Jaipur was the first designed city of India and the sovereign took so much effort while planning
Jaipur. He referred quite a lot of architectural books and discussed with brilliant architects
before creating the design of Jaipur city. After numerous combats with Maratha rulers, Jai Singh
wanted to protect the people of Amber by avoiding disagreements with the Mughal Emperors.
Owing to multiple reasons, Maharaja Jai Sing concentrated on the technical and artistic welfare
to make Jaipur as a luminous city.

Wonderful planning of Vidyadhar Bhattacharya:

Since Maharaja Jai Singh was an aficionado of science & mathematics, he tried to seek
suggestion from Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, a Brahmin researcher of Bengal to help him plan the
structural design of Jaipur. By referring the prehistoric books of Ptolemy & Euclid and Indian
literature on astronomy, Vidhyadhar explained the structural design to Maharaja. After
that, Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, the brilliant architect created the plans in proportion to olden
Hindu discourse on architecture known as Shilpa Shastra, the art of Indian building. Based on
the tactical plan, the edifice of the Jaipur started in the year 1727. On the whole, it took almost 4
years to finish the build the main palaces, squares and roads of the city. Jaipur was constructed
based on the ideology of Vastu Shastra. The city of Jaipur was split into 9 blocks, of which 2 of
them includes the state buildings & palaces. The remaining 7 blocks are allocated to the
community. Gigantic fortification walls were created in conjunction with the 7 well-built gates.
During that period, the structural design of the Jaipur was highly sophisticated and undoubtedly
the finest in India. When Prince of Wales visited Jaipur in the year 1853, the entire city was
decorated in pink color to greet him. From then, Jaipur was known as Pink City of Rajasthan.
Even today, the broad avenues of Jaipur still remain to be painted in pink color which offers a
unique exterior and allure to the city.

Beautiful Vidyadhar Garden:

Vidyadhar Garden is one of the stunning gardens in Jaipur. This garden was created by the
brave Rajputs of Jaipur based on the Mughals characterization of Garden. Vidyadhar Garden
was originally created in the reminiscence of late Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, the talented primary
architect & city designer of Jaipur. Vidyadhar Garden is a fascinating example of Shilpa Shastra,

the olden Indian style of architecture which was used by Vidyadhar while designing the splendid
city of Jaipur. In the beginning, this garden served as a winery to former emperors. Later, it was
remodeled to its current form. In essence, Vidhyadhar Ka Bagh was made custom made to
fetch a feeling of relief in the parched landscape of the arid region. The Garden is positioned at
a distance of about 8 km in the eastern side of Jaipur city, on the Jaipur-Agra thoroughfare.
Vidyadhar Garden is snuggled between 2 rock-strewn mountains, which offer its much desirable
picturesque status to this spot. This rambling garden, with its wonderfully arranged chiseled
fountains, flowerbeds, pictorial vineyard, sylvan lakes, Mural paintings and stunning galleries
are a real feast to the visitors eyes. Vidhyadhar Gardens is the inimitable, well-designed garden
in the stately city of Jaipur. Visitors can admire the beauty of this garden during early sunset
when the garden is lightned up with dazzling and colorful lights everywhere.