ADALAJ VAV
Innocuous looking exterior to the Well. As you enter the complex this is all that you see made my host wonder! Built in 1498 by Ruda, wife of Vaghela Chief Virasimha. The octagonal shaft is 5 storied, spiral staircases on western and eastern sides. As you shall see Adalaj is richly carved, every pillar & wall surface covered with leaves & flowers, birds & fishes and friezes of ornamental designs. The entire structure is in stone. It made me wonder how must have workers taken the stone down 5 levels and then worked upon them, some workmanship!
Entrance to the Vav. As you move down each storey it gets cooler and cooler The entire Vav is split into 5 levels, you have to go down by steps. Alongside the walls & pillars are richly carved as you shall see later. This picture shows the starting point to the five levels. At the top of the picture you can see gaps between stone. Each gap represents moving down to a lower level, which you can see in the lower part of this picture too. Suns rays come through the gaps between the stone
The earlier picture showed you the top from the entrance side. This one from the opposite side shows you the length of the Vav and how it looks from top. The octagonal structure is the main well, which has five storeys below. Its interiors you shall see later. The plan was to build a temple on the top of this structure but the Vaghela Chief was defeated by a Muslim invader who told the ex-ruler's wife Ruda that he would help her complete the Temple provided she married him. She preferred Sati (to die) instead.
pilar
One of the pillars.
As you enter level one to your right is a Ambaji ka Mandir.
Next to that is a Yantra carving.
These are 9 kalashes on one of the sidewalls
This door on the second floor has a panel (above door falling in shadow) showing the nine planets.
Clicked from level one this picture shows you a series of pillars from beginning to the end of the Vav. At the far end you can see the steps that are the entrance to the Vav. Below the pillar that you see right in front is the well. All around the well on every floor is a balcony supported by nine pillars. Between two floors on all sides are these intricately carved pieces of stone as you can see right in front of you.
Clicked from the entrance side it shows a series of pillars, gap between two pillars represents a drop in storey ending in the well.
A closer view of the carvings between two floor balconies as explained in the last but one slide
Part of the five storeyed structure clicked from the well i.e. lowermost point. Note the pillars and how they support the entire structure.
Clicked from the top is the well at the bottom and balconies surrounding it.
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