Report of the Committee Appointed to make Recommendations regarding location of Certain Public Institutions in the Shanwar Wada Poona

The house-warming ceremony was performed on the 7th day of the bright half of Magh of the Shake year 1653 corresponding to the 5th of the Mussalman month of Saban which was also a Saturday the 22nd of January 1732. [...] Among the remains now extant in that area the more noteworthy are (1) the terraced stone masonry plinth of the extinct main block of palace buildings which runs north-south in the middle of the enclosure (2) the Hazari Karanje a thousand-jetted stone-masonry fountain of lotus design lying to the west of the central higher plinth and (3) the square cistern of comparmented walls which was for [...] Along the side of the inner opening of the Ganesh Gate and in the south-east corner of the enclosure wall is the site of the Palace reservoir in which water was stored for distribution to all the parts of the palace. [...] No material is available to show that the distinctive features of the Shanwar Wada such as the Ganapati Mahal the Rang Mahal the Arse Mahal the seven-storeyed Asmani mansion or the Meghdambari mansion the Phadacha Chowk or the Secretariat the fountains cascades etc. [...] At the most five such plots can be separately demarcated :—(1) The open plot parallel to the southern wall between the water storage near the Ganesh Gate on the east and the water tank on the west ; (2) the space on the west formerly used as the stables together with a contiguous open strip ; (3) the open strip parallel to the northern rampart wall to the west of the Delhi Gateway ; (4) the open