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 "id": "building/tomb-of-akbar-sikandra",
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 "slug": "tomb-of-akbar-sikandra",
 "label": {
  "ar": "ضريح أكبر في سكندره",
  "en": "Tomb of Akbar, Sikandra",
  "ur": "مقبرۂ اکبر، سکندرہ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ضريح الإمبراطور أكبر في سكندره قرب آكره، بدأه في حياته على التقليد التيموري وأتمه ابنه، بناء ضخم من الحجر الأحمر المطعّم بالرخام وسط بستان رباعي {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.136}.",
  "en": "The tomb of the emperor Akbar at Sikandra near Agra, begun in his lifetime after Timurid custom and finished by his son: a massive red sandstone building inlaid with marble in a quartered garden {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.136}."
 },
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  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "south-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/gunpowder-empires"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "tomb",
  "patron": "person/jalal-al-din-akbar",
  "location": "place/agra",
  "materials": [
   "stone",
   "marble"
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Brookes 1987, printed pp. 136, 154",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)",
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 3,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ضريح [[person/jalal-al-din-akbar|أكبر]] في سكندره قرب [[place/agra|آكره]]، بدأه الإمبراطور في حياته على التقليد التيموري في بناء المرء ضريحه، وأتمه ابنه. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.136}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وصفه",
     "markdown": "بناء ضخم من الحجر الرملي الأحمر المطعّم بالرخام، يقوم مربعاً وسط بستان رباعي ([[concept/chaharbagh|جهاربغ]]) متناسب ليُبرز الضريح الكبير. ويرى [[person/john-brookes|بروكس]] أن حجمه، كسلفه [[building/humayun-tomb|ضريح همايون]]، يمهّد للعمارة المغولية اللاحقة، وأن قنوات الماء الواصلة بين الأحواض ما تزال ضيقة لكنها صارت في مخطط محوري أقوى. ويفتقد البستان اليوم غرسه التقليدي من السرو والصنوبر والدلب وحياة الماء الجاري. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.136} ومآذن بوابته النحيلة سلفٌ لمآذن [[building/taj-mahal|تاج محل]]. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.154}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/tomb-of-akbar-sikandra",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [],
    "status": {
     "review": "published"
    },
    "provenance": {
     "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)",
     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987, pp. 136, 154"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The tomb of [[person/jalal-al-din-akbar|Akbar]] at Sikandra near [[place/agra|Agra]] was begun by the emperor in his lifetime, following the Timurid custom of building one's own tomb, and finished by his son. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.136}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Description",
     "markdown": "It is a monolithic red sandstone structure inlaid with marble, set four-square in a quartered garden ([[concept/chaharbagh|chaharbagh]]) proportioned to set off the great tomb. For [[person/john-brookes|Brookes]] its scale, like that of its predecessor [[building/humayun-tomb|Humayun's tomb]], foreshadows later Mughal building; the water channels linking its tanks are still narrow but now sit in a stronger axial plan. The garden today lacks its classic planting of cypress, pine and plane and the life of running water. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.136} The slender minarets of its gateway were a forerunner of those of the [[building/taj-mahal|Taj Mahal]]. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.154}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/tomb-of-akbar-sikandra",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H), translation"
    ],
    "status": {
     "review": "published"
    },
    "provenance": {
     "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)",
     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987, pp. 136, 154"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "سکندرہ ([[place/agra|آگرہ]] کے قریب) میں [[person/jalal-al-din-akbar|اکبر]] کا مقبرہ بادشاہ نے اپنی زندگی میں، اپنا مقبرہ خود بنوانے کی تیموری روایت کے مطابق، شروع کیا اور اس کے بیٹے نے مکمل کیا۔ {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.136}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تفصیل",
     "markdown": "یہ سرخ ریتلے پتھر کی ایک عظیم عمارت ہے جس میں سنگِ مرمر کی پچی کاری ہے، اور ایک چہار حصی باغ ([[concept/chaharbagh|چہار باغ]]) کے بیچ مربع کھڑی ہے جو اس بڑے مقبرے کو نمایاں کرنے کے تناسب سے بنا ہے۔ [[person/john-brookes|بروکس]] کے نزدیک اس کا پیمانہ، اپنے پیش رو [[building/humayun-tomb|ہمایوں کے مقبرے]] کی طرح، بعد کی مغل تعمیر کا پیش خیمہ ہے؛ حوضوں کو جوڑنے والی نہریں اب بھی تنگ ہیں مگر زیادہ مضبوط محوری نقشے میں ہیں۔ آج باغ میں سرو، صنوبر اور چنار کی روایتی شجرکاری اور بہتے پانی کی رونق نہیں۔ {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.136} اس کے دروازے کے پتلے مینار [[building/taj-mahal|تاج محل]] کے میناروں کے پیش رو تھے۔ {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.154}"
    }
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     "source": "source/brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987, pp. 136, 154"
    }
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  "building/achabal-garden",
  "building/agra-fort",
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