Ana Sagar Lake is an artificial lake situated in the city of

Ajmer Ajmer () is a city in the north-western States and union territories of India, Indian state of Rajasthan. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Ajmer district and Ajmer division. It lies at the centre of Rajasthan, earning it the ...

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state in

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. It was built by

Arnoraja Arnoraja (IAST: Arṇorāja, r. c. 1135–1150 CE) was an Indian king belonging to the Shakambhari Chahamana dynasty. He ruled the Sapadalaksha country, which included parts of present-day Rajasthan in north-western India. Arnoraja defeated the ...

(alias Ana), the grandfather of

Prithviraj Chauhan Prithviraja III (IAST: Pṛthvī-rāja; 22 May 1166 – February 1192), popularly known as Prithviraj Chauhan or Rai Pithora, was a king from the Chahamanas of Shakambhari, Chauhan (Chahamana) dynasty who ruled the territory of Sapadalaksha, w ...

, in 1135 -1150 AD and is named after him. The catchments were built with the help of local populace. The lake is spread over .

History

Mughal Emperor

Jahangir Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his imperial name Jahangir (; ), was List of emperors of the Mughal Empire, Emperor of Hindustan from 1605 until his death in 1627, and the fourth Mughal emperors, Mughal ...

constructed Daulat Bagh garden beside the lake.

Shah Jahan Shah Jahan I, (Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram; 5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also called Shah Jahan the Magnificent, was the Emperor of Hindustan from 1628 until his deposition in 1658. As the fifth Mughal emperor, his reign marked the ...

constructed five pavilions (known as Baradari) between the garden and the lake.

Details

There is a Circuit house on a hill near the lake that used to be Lodha’s Residency. This is one of the main tourist attraction there. An island in the center of the lake is accessible by boat. Boats could be hired from the east side of the Daulat Bagh. The walkways Chowpatty and Jetty next to each other and Baradari give opportunity to capture the scenic of the lake. The lake is the biggest one in Ajmer, with the maximum catchments area ( built up area). The maximum depth of lake is with storage capacity of . The

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has banned construction in the catchment areas of the lake basins.

Rishi Udyan

Dayananda Saraswati Dayanand Saraswati () born Mool Shankar Tiwari (12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883), was a Hindu philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of Hinduism. His book '' Satyarth Prakash'' has remained one of th ...

, who breathed his last at ''Bhinai Kothi'' near Ajmer, his ashes were scattered at Ajmer in ''Rishi Udyan'' as per his wishes,Ramananda Chatterjee, 1933
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Volume 54, Page 593. which is located on the bank of the Ana Sagar Lake and makes an excellent sunset point. Rishi Udyan has a functional

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temple with daily morning and evening

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homa, where an annual three day ''Aruasamaj

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'' is held every year on Rishi Dayanand's death anniversary at the end of October, which also entails vedic seminars,

vedas FIle:Atharva-Veda samhita page 471 illustration.png, upright=1.2, The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas ( or ; ), sometimes collectively called the Veda, are a large body of relig ...

memorisation competition, yajna, and Dhavaja Rohan flag march.Rishi Dayanand mela start in Ajmer Arya scholors in Ajmer

Rajasthan Patrika ''Rajasthan Patrika'' () is an Indian Hindi- Rajasthani language daily newspaper. It was founded by Karpoor Chandra Kulish in 1956 and published as ''Rajasthan Patrika'' in Delhi and Rajasthan, and as ''Patrika'' in 9 other states. As per Ind ...

, 20 November 2015. It is organised by the ''Paropkarini Sabha'', which was founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati on 16 August 1880 in Meerut, registered in Ajmer on 27 February 1883, and since 1893 has been operating from its office in Ajmer.

Gallery

File:Anasagar-baradari as seen from circuit house.jpg, '' Baradari'' (pavilions) on Lake Anasagar File:Anna sarobar-2-ajmir.jpg, ARV Group's island; the only island in the lake File:Ana Sagar pavilion columns 2016.jpg, Details of the columns of the pavilion File:Anasagar Lake in Ajmer.JPG,

city as seen from the lake

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