Short answers, pulled from the story.
Nishat Bagh was completed in the year 1633 on the eastern bank of Dal Lake in Srinagar. Asif Khan, the elder brother of Empress Nur Jahan, commissioned this terraced garden to honor his family's rising influence within the Mughal Empire.
Emperor Shah Jahan ordered that the water supply to the garden be cut off immediately after Asif Khan refused to gift him the property. The Emperor had visited the newly finished garden shortly after its completion in 1633 and expressed great appreciation for its grandeur three times before the refusal occurred.
Architects remodeled Persian garden concepts to fit the specific topographic conditions at the site chosen in the Kashmir valley by adopting an axial stream flow design instead of a central square pattern. This change accommodated the hill condition where the water source originated at the top of the hill end resulting in a rectangular layout measuring approximately 670 meters in east-west length.
Rising from the edge of Dal Lake the garden features twelve terraces representing twelve Zodiacal signs in sequence. Each terrace contains unique architectural elements such as stone ramps pools and fountains designed to manage the cascading water flow.
Mughal Princess Zuhra Begum lies buried within the garden grounds as a final resting place for her family line. She was the daughter of Emperor Alamgir II and granddaughter of Emperor Jahandar Shah.