SdA 3-158 — Bassin d’eau dans le parc bagh-e shahi

• Souvenir d’Afghanistan, série 1 (petit format) : n’y figure pas.
• Souvenir d'Afghanistan, série 2 (grand format), SdA 2-28. 
• Sultan Mahomed Khan (1900) : The life of Abdur Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan, Vol. 2, p. 104 : «All my residential palaces are built on sites that command a beautiful view, and in a bright, breezy place. They are surrounded by gardens and flowers, and they are built in such a style that it is possible in the same building to have warm rooms for winter use, and open verandahs with large windows for the summer. The rooms are so arranged that the spring blossoms may be watched as they break from the trees, and the gorgeous yellow hues of the autumn, and the dazzling falls of the winter snow and the moonlight nights are enjoyed by all the inmates of my palaces who take the trouble to sit at theses windows.»
• Thornton, E. et A. (1910) : Leaves from an Afghan scrapbook, p. 98 : «[…] A spacious garden surrounds this palace, and has a central irrigation canal. Two small ponds about 4 to 5 feet deep are stocked with goldfish, which afford amusement for the page-boys. There are walks made through orange-groves, where in springtime the air becomes heavily laden with scent.»
• Parr, D.J. (1975) : Architecture in Afghanistan, 1880-1929, pp. 107-109 et Fig. 76-84 : description du palais bagh-e shahi.
• Adamec (1985) : Kabul and Southeastern Afghanistan, p. 297 : «About ½ miles to the west of the town is a garden, and a palace, of the Amir; this is called the Wazirbagh; there are two large tanks in the garden and the place would form an ideal head-quarters in the event of the occupation of Jalalabad.»
• McChesney, R.D. (Ed., 2013) : The history of Afghanistan: Fayz Muhammad Katib Hazarah’s “Siraj al-tawarikh”, Vol. 3-1, p. 90 : «Also this year [1883], at the order of His Majesty, an enclosing wall was constructed around the Bagh-i Shahi in Jalalabad and over the course of some two to five years, through the expenditure of a large amount of money, the surrounding wall with rooms along the western side, a sublime royal palace, a domed entry gate, and rooms outside the gate were constructed, as will be related in due course – God willing. In 1305/1887-88, after laying out fragrant terraces, avenues, fountains, two large cistern-reservoirs on the east and west sides of the private royal palace, introducing a large canal, and planting orange, cypress and other trees, a marble inscription was mounted high on the entrance to the palace which stood facing the entry gate to the park on its southern side. […]» ; p. 221 : «During the previous events [March 1886], Brigadier ‘Abd al-Subhan Khan, an Indian engineer working for the government of Afghanistan, was assigned by His Majesty to Jalalabad to build a felicity-surrounding palace inside the Bagh-i Shahi of Jalalabad and to construct inner and outer chambers for it. Over the course of three years he completed the work, […]» ; p. 405 : «Also at this time, on the eighteenth of Rabi’ al-Sani/3 January 1888, His Majesty left [for Jalalabad …] Since the construction of the private quarters of the Bagh-i Shahi had not yet reached the requisite state of completion and was as yet unsuitable for the status and dignity of His Majesty, he stopped at the estate of (the late) Wazir Muhammad Akbar Khan, today known as the Bagh-i Kawkab, […]»

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