The formidable 14th century Devgiri Fort is at Daulatabad, near Aurangabad has triple line of fort walls surrounded by moats preventing easy access to the summit. The space between the outer and the inner defenses contains many ruined palaces, temples, dargahs and mosques.
In this region there is a well known as Sarasvati Well which is about 100 feet square and 40 feet deep. Today this well is in ruined state. It is considered sacred and named after Goddess Sarasvati. The sides are paved with square blocks of stone, and have narrow flights of steps leading to the bottom.
The water in the well is filled by natural springs. There is used to be pipes that supplied water to it from the nearby reservoir.
In this region there is a well known as Sarasvati Well which is about 100 feet square and 40 feet deep. Today this well is in ruined state. It is considered sacred and named after Goddess Sarasvati. The sides are paved with square blocks of stone, and have narrow flights of steps leading to the bottom.
The water in the well is filled by natural springs. There is used to be pipes that supplied water to it from the nearby reservoir.
35 comments:
I've never seen anything in ruins on your blog before... it is still a very interesting site with a fascinating story.
Fascinating. Makes you wonder what this site looked like when it was intact. Must have been very impressive and beautiful.
Interesting well. Nicely captured.
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Thanks for sharing another interesting site with us.
One has to pride our ancestors for their vision, isn't it?
I am sad to see this in ruins. Definitely there could have been a belief that anybody who drinks from this well would become wiser!
ths s something adorable and the place just reflects our culture...
It looks overgrown does this mean it is not a tourist destination?
What a lovely well - and so big!
What an amazing, historical place, Rajesh! Terrific captures for the day!!
Interesting fort and shots.
Great info and captures. Hope it is taken care of well.
Looks interesting these ruins, beautiful images. Greetings.
LindyLouMac: This huge fort is definitely a tourist attraction. This well and some of other places are part of the huge fort which can be seen only if explored enough.
Great historical place. Would love to visit some day!
Great site! Leading to the bottom of the well seem not ease.
Interesting well.
spectacular images! deeep well, right?
Lovely reflections in the little pond!
That is very inspiring, architecturally speaking, in a time when water management is becoming such a challenge all around the word...
So beautiful !
I like this kind of historical building.
Ava
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That's an incredible well/reservoir, so deep.
I love your travel blog....I can sit here in the comforts of my home and see through your eyes and thoughts. Thank you for sharing the sites of your country. Photos are excellent.
Joyce M
joli endroit !
Such solid walls! I have never seen such a large well! fascinating place!
the history and the shadows interesting
much love...
Thank you for appreciating this small well.
What lovely captures of light and architecture, the ruins are beautiful.
I would love to have known what originally sat in the niche with the carving overhead. It must have been quite large. Is that a Buddha sitting there now?
It must have took a long while to build those walls.
Late visit from Shadow Shots Sunday.
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Very interesting place.
Visiting from Water World Wednesday
Kim,USA
I was just seeing a program on this. Amazing structure and it goes really down
PhenoMenon
Wow....this does look formidable :D
saraswati river can be seen in 2 place at Mana near badrinath and other at the sangam with Alaknanda .....never heard about this place ....good info :)
Thank you for sharing.It looks so old-those people knew how to conserve water-better than we do today.
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