Mehrangarh Fort , Jodhpur Rajasthan
Rajasthan Tour Diaries Day 2 Today it is the day of city tour of Jodhpur. Our first stop the Magnificent Mehrangarh Fort meaning Sun Fort as the Rathores who built this are ftom Kanauj UP and are Suryavanshis. It's an UNESCO site and the present Maharaja Gaj Singh Rathore was crowned when he was very young and the seat of his coronation in marble in the center courtyard of women quarters. Mehrangarh Fort Mehrangarh the Fort of Jodhpur crowns a rocky hill that rises 400 feet above the surrounding plain, and appears both to command and to meld with the landscape. One of the largest forts in Rajasthan, it contains some of the finest palaces and preserves in its museum many priceless relics of Indian courtly life. For over five centuries Mehrangarh has been the headquarters of the senior branch of Rajput clan known as the Rathores. According to their bards, the ruling dynasty of this clan had at an earlier period controlled Kanauj (in what is known as Uttar Pradesh).