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 "id": "concept/chadar",
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 "label": {
  "ar": "الچادر (المنحدر المائي المحزّز)",
  "en": "Chadar (textured water chute)",
  "ur": "چادر (آبشاری ڈھلوان)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "منحدر حجري مائل في البستان المغولي يندفع عليه الماء بين مصطبتين، يُخشَّن سطحه ليزيد تموّج الماء {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.141}.",
  "en": "A sloping stone ramp in the Mughal garden down which water rushes between terraces, its surface broken to increase the rippling {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.141}."
 },
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  "south-asia"
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  "period/gunpowder-empires"
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 "themes": [
  "architecture",
  "water-and-animals"
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  "sources": [
   "source/brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987"
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Brookes 1987, printed pp. 141-147",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)",
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "التعريف",
     "markdown": "الچادر منحدر حجري مائل في البستان المغولي يصل بين مصطبتين، يندفع عليه الماء، ويُكسر سطحه بنقوش أو نتوءات ليزيد تموج الماء ولمعانه. وهو مع الشلالات المتصلة من أدوات ربط المستويات في بساتين كشمير المدرّجة. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.141}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أمثلته",
     "markdown": "يذكره [[person/john-brookes|بروكس]] في [[building/shalimar-bagh-srinagar|شاليمار باغ]]، وفي [[building/nishat-bagh|نشاط باغ]] حيث يقوم عند كل تغير في المستوى شلال أو چادر، وفي [[building/chashma-shahi|جشمه شاهي]] حيث يسقط الماء على چادر ضيق شديد الانحدار كالمزلقة. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.141} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.144} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.147} ويرى بروكس أن تقليد المياه المندفعة في الهند هو الذي انتقل بعدُ إلى بساتين الزنديين ثم القاجاريين في فارس. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.122}"
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/chadar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [],
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     "review": "published"
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     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987, pp. 141-147"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Definition",
     "markdown": "The chadar is a sloping stone ramp in the Mughal garden linking two terraces, down which water rushes, its surface broken with carving or ridges to increase the rippling and sparkle. With unbroken cascades it was one of the means of joining the levels of the terraced gardens of Kashmir. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.141}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Examples",
     "markdown": "[[person/john-brookes|Brookes]] notes it at the [[building/shalimar-bagh-srinagar|Shalimar Bagh]]; at the [[building/nishat-bagh|Nishat Bagh]], where every change of level has a cascade or a rushing chadar; and at the [[building/chashma-shahi|Chashma Shahi]], where the water drops down a steep chadar as narrow as a slide. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.141} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.144} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.147} Brookes holds that this Indian tradition of rushing water was later carried back to the water gardens of the Zands and then the Qajars in Persia. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.122}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/chadar",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H), translation"
    ],
    "status": {
     "review": "published"
    },
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     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987, pp. 141-147"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "تعریف",
     "markdown": "چادر مغل باغ میں دو چبوتروں کو جوڑنے والی پتھر کی ڈھلوان ہے جس پر پانی تیزی سے بہتا ہے؛ اس کی سطح نقش یا ابھار سے کھردری کی جاتی ہے تاکہ پانی کی لہریں اور چمک بڑھیں۔ مسلسل آبشاروں کے ساتھ یہ کشمیر کے سیڑھی دار باغوں کی سطحوں کو جوڑنے کا ایک ذریعہ تھی۔ {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.141}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مثالیں",
     "markdown": "[[person/john-brookes|بروکس]] اس کا ذکر [[building/shalimar-bagh-srinagar|شالامار باغ]] میں، [[building/nishat-bagh|نشاط باغ]] میں جہاں ہر سطح کی تبدیلی پر آبشار یا چادر ہے، اور [[building/chashma-shahi|چشمہ شاہی]] میں کرتے ہیں جہاں پانی پھسلن جیسی تنگ اور ڈھلوان چادر سے گرتا ہے۔ {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.141} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.144} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.147} بروکس کی رائے ہے کہ ہندوستان کی یہ تیز پانی کی روایت بعد میں فارس میں زندیوں اور پھر قاجاریوں کے آبی باغوں تک واپس پہنچی۔ {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.122}"
    }
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    "lang": "ur",
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     "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H), translation"
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     "source": "source/brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987, pp. 141-147"
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