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| Bhangarh Fort Entrance, by Navjot Singh, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Bhangarh Fort is a 17th-century fort located in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, India. Bhangarh Fort is famous for its beautiful architecture and its ghost stories and is considered to be the most haunted place in India. No one is allowed by the Archaeological Survey of India to enter the premises of the fort after sunset and before sunrise.
A Brief History and Geographic Features of Bhangarh Fort
Bhangarh Fort was constructed in A.D 1573 during the period of Kaccwaha Rajput by Raja Bhagwant Das the ruler of Amber from kaccwaha for his younger son Madho Singh. Madho Singh's elder brother Man Singh who was a well-reputed general under the Mughal Emperor Akbar and was known as one of Akbar's Navaratnas
This fort is situated 235 kilometers (146 miles) from Delhi. The nearest village from the fort is Gola ka Baas and the nearest airport from the Fort is the Jaipur International Airport which is 88 kilometers away from the Bhangarh Fort.
At the entrance of the fort, there are remains of the temples of Hanuman and Gopinath. You can also find the temples dedicated to Mangla Devi and Ganesh at Bhangarh fort.
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| "Bhangarh Fort", by Love.chinku, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Legends of Bhangarh Fort
Besides being famous for its architectural beauty, the Bhangarh fort is also famous as a haunted place in fact Bhangarh fort is often regarded as the most haunted place in India.
There are mainly 2 stories about how this fort became haunted.
First story
The first and the most famous story speaks about a beautiful princess of Bhangarh named
(Rani) Princess Ratnavadi. Rani Ratnavadi was the granddaughter of Madho Singh. One day a black magician named Sinha fell in love with Rani Ratnavadi and he tried to achieve her by using all sorts of black magic. One day, this wizard Sinhia followed the rani to the marketplace and offered her a perfume, but when Rani was informed that this perfume has some sort of magic she refused it, throwing it onto a large rock that consequently rolled onto the wizard crushing him to death. But just before his death he cursed the Bhangarh for destruction and after a month of his death, Bhangarh was attacked by it's neighboring kingdom named Ajabgarh and many people of Bhangarh including Rani Ratnavadi got killed during this attack, and the rest of the population of Bhangarh got wiped out in the famines of 1783 and in Mughal invasions.
Second story
the second story suggests about a sadhu named Baba Balak Nath (Balu Nath) who lived in the fort area and it was his injunction any house built in the precinct of the fort should not be taller than his cave and shadow from the fort should never touch his cave and disturb him from meditation. The king promised the sadhu that his meditation will never be disturbed but as the sun shifted south in winter the shadow of the fort grew longer and touched the sadhu's cave and woken him from his deep meditation. The sadhu became very angry about this and he issued a curse that the town and its people will never be able to put up another roof in the vicinity and he also cursed the Bhangarh for destruction and it is said that even today if there is a new construction took place there the roof of that building collapse for no reason.
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