Amritvarshini Vav

Amritavarshini Vav || Panchkuva Stepwell || Katkhuni Vav Ahmadabad

#Amritavarshini_Vav, also known as #Panchkuva #Stepwell or Katkhuni Vav, is a stepwell near the Panchkuva Darwaja in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Architectural style : Hindu and Islamic architecture
Floor count : Three storied stepwell
Coordinates : 23.02495°N 72.5972°E
Panchkuva, literally five wells, area derived its name the five wells in the area. Amritavarshini vav was completed in 1723 as per Devanagari and Persian inscription ( Vikram Samvat 1779/A.H. 1135 ) in the stepwell.
It was built by Raghunathdas, diwan to Haidar Quli Khan, who was the governor of Gujarat during his stay in the city in 1721–1722 for charitable purpose.
Architecture
Sparsely ornamented, Amriavarshini Vav is notable for its L-shaped plan and has simple design. It has three storeys and is more than 50 feet deep. The bracing arches have different shapes at the two storeys and in the kuta (pavilion tower) before the well shaft. It was declared a protected monument in 1969 and was conserved in 1999. It was recharged later by digging in 2004.
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(EN) Stepwells, also called bawdi (Hindi: बावड़ी) or baoli (Hindi: बावली), are wells in which the water can be reached by descending a set of steps. They may be covered and protected, and are often of architectural significance. It can be multi-storied also in which a bullock turns the water wheel (Rehant) to raise the water in the well to the first or second floor.
They are most common in the west of India. They may be also found in the other more arid regions of the subcontinent, extending into Pakistan. The construction may be utilitarian, but sometimes includes significant architectural embellishments.
A number of distinct names, sometimes local, exist for stepwells. In Hindi speaking regions, they include names based on baudi (including bawdi, bawri, baoli, bavadi, bavdi). In Gujarati and Marwari language, they are usually called vav.
All forms of the stepwell may be considered to be particular examples of the many types of storage and irrigation tanks that were developed in India, mainly to cope with seasonal fluctuations in water availability. A basic difference between stepwells on the one hand, and tanks and wells on the other, was to make it easier for people to reach the ground water, and to maintain and manage the well.
In some related types of structure (johara wells), ramps were built to allow cattle to reach the water.[citation needed]
The majority of surviving stepwells originally also served a leisure purpose, as well as providing water. This was because the base of the well provided relief from daytime heat, and more such relief could be obtained if the well was covered. This led to the building of some significant ornamental and architectural features, often associated with dwellings and in urban areas. It also ensured their survival as monuments.
Stepwell construction is known to have gone on from at least 600 AD. Most existing stepwells date from the last 800 years. There are suggestions that they may have originated much earlier, and there are some suggestions that precursors to them can be seen in the Indus Valley civilisation.

(GU) વાવ (અંગ્રેજી:Stepwells, હિંદી: बावड़ी, बावली)એ કુવાનો જ એક પ્રકાર છે, જેમાં કુવો પગથીયા સાથે જોડવામાં આવેલો હોય છે, અથવા તો બીજા શબ્દોમાં કહીએ તો કુવામાંનાં પાણી સુધી પગથીયા દ્વારા પહોંચી શકાય તેવો કુવો. વાવ મોટે ભાગે પરિસરમાં બાંધેલી અને સુરક્ષિત હોય છે તથા મહદંશે જોવા મળતી વાવો શિલ્પકલાનાં ઉત્કૃષ્ટ નમુનાઓ છે, જેમાં સુંદર કોતરણી કરેલી હોય છે. અમુક વાવો એવી પણ છે જેમાં એવી ગોઠવણ કરેલી હોય છે કે બળદની મદદથી ચક્ર વડે કુવામાંથી પાણી ખેંચીને પહેલા કે બીજા માળ સુધી પહોંચાડે.
સામાન્ય રીતે પશ્ચિમ ભારતમાં વાવ ઘણી જગ્યાએ જોવા મળે છે. આ ઉપરાંત અન્ય વધુ ઊંડાઇએ પાણી મળતું હોય એવા શુષ્ક વિસ્તારોમાં જેમાં પાકિસ્તાનનો પણ સમાવેશ થાય છે, ત્યાં પણ વાવ બંધાયેલી જોવા મળે છે. વાવનું બાંધકામ આમ તો પાણીનો સરળતાથી ઉપયોગ કરવા માટે જ કરવામાં આવતું હતું, આમ છતાં કેટલીક જગ્યાઓ પર આ બાંધકામ વેળા આ વાવ મહત્વપૂર્ણ સ્થાપ્ત્ય બને અને વ્યક્તિ કે રાજ્યની ઓળખ બની રહે તે રીતે કરવામાં આવતું હતું.
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Jethabhai Stepwell (Vav) Ahmedabad Gujarat

Jethabhai's Stepwell or Jethabhai ni Vav, is a stepwell in Isanpur area of Ahmedabad,  Gujarat, India.Two and a half miles south of Ahmadabad, near Isanpur perhaps one of the most modern examples of the regular wav [step well]. It was constructed little more than forty years ago by the late Jethabhai Jivanlal Nagjibhai (or Mulji) of Ahmadabad. To obtain the materials, he purchased from the holder of Shah Alam the rauza belonging to a masjid known as that of Malik Alam...and from the late Qazi Hasan-ud-din of Ahmadabad he bought the Nenpurvada masjid at Rajapur-Hirpur together with its accompanying rauza. These were pulled down by the Hindu purchaser and the materials used in the construction of this well and in putting up a portico to his temple in the Shaherkotda suburb. In the ornamentation of the well one of the mihrabs of the mosque has evidently been utilized. This wav... is 210 feet (64 m) in length and from 21 to 22 feet (6.4 to 6.7 m) wide, with a dome raised on twelve pillars on the entrance at the west end. It has the usual descents from platform or gallery to gallery.

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Mir Abu Turab's was the chief of the army during Mughal rule of Akbar. In 1579, appointed chief of the Mecca caravan, he brought back a large stone from Mecca with a footprint of the Prophet Mohammed in 1582 (987 H.). This stone is said to have been the same which Syed Jalal-i-Bukhari brought to Delhi at the time of Sultan Firoz. Taken first to Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar looked on the whole as a pious fraud, and though the stone was received with great respect, Abu Turab's was allowed to keep it in his house. When (1583) Itimad was made Governor of Gujarat, Abu Turab's followed him as Amin of the Suba and was buried at Ahmedabad in 1597 (1005 H). The relic was afterwards brought to Ahmedabad, and perhaps near his tomb, had a building raised over it, and drew large numbers of pilgrims. In the disturbed times of the eighteenth century, as the suburbs were no longer safe, the stone was taken within the city walls. He also wrote a book on history of Gujarat, Tarikh-i-Gujarat.
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The stepwell was built in 1485 by Dhai Harir, a household lady of Mahmud Begada according the persian inscription in the stepwell. She was the superintendent of the royal harem.

Dhai Harir built a mosque and a tomb in which she was buried. The well bears two inscriptions, one in Sanskrit on the south, and one in Arabic on the north wall, of the first gallery.



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It is easy to miss the vast, ancient stepwells of India even if you are standing directly in front of one. These structures are sunken into the Earth with stairways that spiral or zigzag as far as nine stories down into the cool, dark depths where a pool of water lies. Once an important part of daily life in India, modern wells have replaced them. Walls, vegetation and neighboring buildings have grown up to hide them. Victoria Lautman, author of The Vanishing Stepwells of India, spent years searching them out. Lautman fell in love with stepwells on her first trip to India.

People began constructing stepwells in western India in around 650 AD. They were intended primarily as a source of clean water but also served as gathering places, temples and refuges from the heat.

While Hindu in origin, the value of stepwells was grasped by Muslim rulers of the Mughal empire beginning in the early 1500’s. Some Hindu religious inscriptions where defaced, but they allowed construction to continue and even built their own wherever they went.

When the British occupied India (succeeding the Mughals) they considered stepwells unsanitary and set about creating new sources of water. Drilled and bored wells became common, along with pumps and pipes that made stepwells obsolete. The vast majority of Indian stepwells fell into disuse. The last one was built in 1903.

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Dada Hari ni Vav - A hidden gem

It was sometime early in the 15th century, when Sultan Ahmed Shah, camping on the banks of the Sabarmati River, as per a popular legend, saw a hare chasing a dog. Impressed by this land, which nurtured such rare qualities that a timid hare could chase a ferocious dog, the sultan, who had been looking for a place to build his new capital, decided to found his capital here and called it Ahmedabad.

Over the years, Ahmedabad grew to become one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world, and the sultans were patrons of a distinctive architecture that blended Islamic elements with Gujarat's indigenous Hindu and Jain architectural traditions.

Dada Hari ni vav, located in Asarva, is a fine example of this fusion.

It was in the 16th century, during the reign of Mahmud Shah 1, the grandson of Ahmed Shah, also known as Mahmud Begada, that this seven storey step well was built by Bai Harir Sultani, the superintendent of the royal harem.

As per the bilingual inscriptions fixed at the monument, the stepwell, with beautiful carvings all over, cost 3,29,000 Mahmudis (more than Rs1 lakh) at that time.
(“As long as the Sun and the Moon endure, so long shall this well continue steadily to nourish all beings , whether born from sweat or eggs, whether from soil or from the womb. ”)

Built in sandstone, the stepwell is five stories deep, enough to access groundwater throughout the year in the past. The step-well is built along the North-South axis, with entrance from the south, marked by a raised platform, covered with a dome supported on twelve pillars. Three staircases lead to the various levels of the well, including two spiral staircases built parallel to the well shaft.

On the main staircase. there are 95 steps descending 5 levels to the base. Each level is supported on intricately carved columns and beams, and is spacious enough to allow gatherings. The walls are covered with intricate carvings of flowers and graphics from the Islamic architectural style, blended well with the idols of Hindu and Jain gods carved at various levels of the well, representing the unity and harmony between hindu and muslim communities during the past days.
The top part of the well is a vertical space open to the sky. The air and light vents in the roofs at various floors and at the landing level are in the form of large openings.
Steps along the principal well descend to the water level. An irrigation well complements the principal well. In the past, the water from this well was drawn with the help of bullocks and fed into canals built on top of the step-well. The narrow canals carried the water to a tank where it was stored, to be used by the people.

The temperatures at the lower levels of the well remain up to five degrees less than the outside temperatures. When the monument was at its full glory, the women who came to fetch water during the scorching summers found a place here to spend time, worshipping the gods and goddesses and gossiping with fellow women.The underground structure stands witness to these colourful festivals and sacred rituals celebrated within its reaches. The palm impressions all along the walls of this structure stand testimony to those occassions.

Just behind the step-well is the tomb and mosque of Sultani, built around the same time as the Vav. The prayers have been offered five times a day. without a pause for the past 500 years. The courtyard of the mosque has a secret passage that leads one to the bazaars of Kalupur, had the opening at the other end not been sealed.

The stepwell today faces neglect and disregard. In the 19th century, these stepwells was replaced with borewells by the British Raj. Parts of the monument were destroyed in communal clashes.

Over the years, the groundwater level has receded due to overextraction, and the stepwell remains dry throughout the year. The prophecy of the builders has been put down.

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Vav of Mehmedabad, Gujarat (a Stepwell) build in late 15 century by Sultan Mahmud Begadha (1458-1511) A.D. the structure was typical indian style, Indo Islamic Architecture, 4 storeys deep, the Vav was very bad condition, local people throw all waste in Stepwell and government ignore it fully and not maintain it and clean it....
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