Description

The vav could be said to represent a unique "upside down" type of architecture. The descent is by steps divided into flights by landings, each provided with an open structure. The increasing complexity of architecture as the steps descend is a typical feature of step wells. While step wells like other water structures, were primarily utilitarian in purpose, their ritual and symbolic values suggest other uses-as meeting places, resting places and even on occasions as hiding places.

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