Few years after Man Singh’s death
the Fort eventually fell to Ibrahim Lodhi and soon went to Babur, the first emperor
of the Mughal Dynasty. The buildings and palaces made my Man Singh where music,
beauty and love once thrived were converted into prisons and torture houses. A
beautiful rounded “Bawri”, a stepped well, made by Man Singh to collect water
for the population living on the Fort, was converted into state prison. This
stepped well is accompanied by a large open hall with 84 pillars. The hall was later used as a prison by Aurangzeb and
pillars were used to keep the 52 kings
who were later freed with Sikh Guru
Hargobind Singh Sahib.
The
indoor bath for queens at one of the underground floors which used to be filled
with fragrance and flower petals at one time, was used as torture dungeon for
royal prisoners, mainly Murad by his brother Aurangzeb, who later killed him on
the reasons of treason.
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