Last updated: October 2026 · Method: built from published site information and recurring traveller reports; figures approximate, verify on site.
The Sisodia Rani Garden is a terraced pleasure garden on the Agra road outside the old city, built in the eighteenth century by Sawai Jai Singh II for his Sisodia queen, and its painted pavilions make it the most decorated garden in Jaipur.
The design
The layout is a terraced charbagh stepped up the hillside, with water channels and fountains running through the tiers, the Mughal garden grammar that the Vidhyadhar garden parallels on the other side of town. Published garden histories describe it as a queen’s retreat, a place away from court; the layering of scale, water and shade follows the water-garden tradition Rajasthan’s courts carried everywhere they built.
The paintings
The pavilion walls carry painted scenes of Krishna and Radha, the devotional subject matter that runs through Rajasthani wall art, close in spirit to the pichwai motifs though executed as palace mural work. Traveller reports note the paint has faded unevenly; the upper pavilion holds the best-preserved panels.