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Teen
Darwaza
is
a
historical
gateway
on
the
east
of
Bhadra
Fort,
Ahmedabad,
India.
Completed
in
1415,
it
is
associated
with
historical
as
well
as
legendary
events.
The
gates
are
featured
in
the
logo
of
Ahmedabad
Municipal
Corporation.
The
Teen
Darwaza
was
an
egress
from
Bhadra
Fort
to
the
eastward.
The
gateway
has
three
arches
which
led
into
a
large
enclosure,
forming
the
outer
courtyard
of
the
palace
called
Maidan
Shah
in
past,
with
a
fountain
and
raised
terrace
in
the
centre.
The
roadway
in
the
central
opening
is
17
feet
wide,
and
that
of
each
side
arch
is
13
feet
wide.
It
has
highly
decorated
buttresses
on
the
faces
of
piers
between
the
arches.
The
height
of
the
arches
is
twenty-five
feet.
The
terrace
on
the
top
of
the
gateway
was
formerly
roofed
over.
But
in
1877
the
gateway
was
repaired,
and
the
terrace
thrown
open.
Here
the
great
feudatories
or
foreign
embassies
assembled
before
approaching
the
presence,
and
the
sovereign
enthroned
on
the
terrace,
mustered
the
troops
for
martial
enterprises
and
gala-day
reviews,
or
held
court
in
the
cool
of
the
evening
beside
the
splashing
fountain.
Now
the
area
is
congested
market.
It
was
built
by
Ahmad
Shah
I
immediately
after
the
foundation
of
Ahmedabad
and
completed
in
1415.
Through
it,
in
1459,
Mahmud
Begada,
king
for
only
a
few
months,
and
not
fifteen
years
old,
quiver
on
back
and
bow
in
hand,
with
only
300
horsemen,
marched
to
disperse
his
rebel
nobles
and
their
30,000
followers.
Leaving
the
palace,
the
young
king
ordered
the
roads
leading
to
it
to
be
held
by
elephants,
and,
with
the
royal
music
playing,
marched
slowly
along
the
main
street.
His
cool
bravery
gave
some
of
his
faithful
nobles
time
to
join,
and
forming
a
considerable
force,
though
small
compared
with
the
insurgents,
attacked
them,
put
them
to
flight,
and
destroyed
their
leaders.[citation
needed]
Later
the
newly
appointed
Maratha
governors
used
to
aim
five
arrows
at
one
of
its
beams,
and
augur
good
or
ill
to
their
administration
in
accordance
with
their
success
in
striking
it.
Maratha
governor
Chimnaji
Raghunath
decreed
and
inscribed
farman
on
Teen
Darwaza
in
1812
declaring
equal
right
to
women
in
inheritance
of
ancestral
property.
Raghunath
had
appealed
to
Hindu
and
Muslims
both.
This
plaque
engraved
in
Devnagari
script
and
dated
10
October
1812
reads,
Let
the
daughter
get
her
due
share
of
fathers
property
without
any
hitch.
So
is
Lord
Vishwanath's
command.
If
you
defy,
the
Hindu
will
have
to
answer
Mahadev
and
the
Mussalman
will
have
to
explain
to
Allah
or
Rasool.
Eternal
lamp Edit
Legend
Years
ago,
Laxmi,
the
Goddess
of
Wealth,
came
to
the
gate
of
the
Bhadra
Fort
to
leave
the
city
in
the
night.
Watchman
Khwaja
Siddique
Kotwal
stopped
her
and
identified
her.
He
asked
her
not
to
leave
the
fort
until
he
obtained
a
permission
from
the
king,
Ahmad
Shah.
He
went
to
the
king
and
beheaded
himself
in
order
to
keep
Laxmi
in
the
city.
It
resulted
in
the
prosperity
of
the
city.
There
is
a
tomb
near
Bhadra
Gate
of
the
fort
dedicated
to
Siddique
Kotwal
and
a
temple
to
Bhadra
Kali,
representing
Laxmi.
A
lamp
in
one
of
the
niche
of
Teen
Darwaza
is
burning
there
for
more
than
six
hundred
years
by
a
Muslim
family
in
a
dedication
to
the
legend.
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