#ashokasays Did you know 212:
You never know where all India hides some of its incredible masterpieces. The next 5 days you in this series you will find it, underground..
Yes Deep below ground, India hides some of its most stunning architectural masterpieces: step-wells.You will never find this elsewhere in the world..
Stepwell or Baori or Thirtha or Pushkarani are well or man made ponds in which the water may be reached by descending a set of steps. Baori are most common in western India and surviving stepwells can be found in Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
The earliest stepwells most likely date to about 550 AD, but the most famous were built in medieval times. It is estimated that over 3,000 stepwells were built in the two northern states. Although many have fallen into disrepair, were silted in at some point in antiquity, or were filled in with trash in the modern era, hundreds of wells still exist. In New Delhi alone, there are more than 30.
Chand Baori.
The Chand Baori is a stepwell built over a thousand years ago in the Abhaneri village of Rajasthan.
It is one of the largest stepwells in the world and also one of the most beautiful ones.
Located in the eastern part of the province of Rajasthan, it was built by King Chanda somewhere in the 9th century.
Chand Baori one was built during the 8th and 9th centuries and has 3,500 narrow steps arranged in perfect symmetry, which descend 20m to the bottom of the well.
About 64 feet deep, it is India's largest and deepest stepwells with 13 floors and was built in the 9th century for water harvesting.
It was so named as it was built by King Chand Raja from the Gujara Pratihara clan, who claim to be the descendant of Lord Ram's younger brother Laxman.
You can read about this more on http://www.chandbaori.org/.
.Even if we dig a well, we do it artistically is what we can say.
INCREDIBLE BHARATHA
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