Rani Ki Vav (A King’s Gift)
Queen’s Gift to the King-Rani Ni Vav- Patan
It has been listed as one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites since 2014.
Queen Udyamati built this step well- known as “VAV” in local Language (Gujarati) as a mark in the history of her husband King Bheema on the banks of the Maiden River Saraswati.
In the olden days.. the Vav was a place where women would gather for their daily chores as, fetching drinking water, bathing, washing clothes, tattle time, singing old stories melodies folklore songs, dancing which used to make their day by day life all the more fascinating and lit.
The finest and one of the biggest examples of its kind and designed as an inverted temple emphasizing the sacredness of water, the stepwell is divided into seven levels of stairs with sculptural panels; more than 500 principal sculptures and over a thousand minor ones combine religious, mythological and secular images.
Back in a time where life was all about living in the Moment…
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