Can you believe that An amazing engineering work built by “ghosts”

 An amazing engineering work built by “ghosts”

Posted by :- TB Team

Chand Baori is rightly considered one of the most admirable examples of architecture of the past, and the legend linked to its construction has it that the well was built in one night by the spirits. There are actually several stepped wells in southeast and south Asia. It is an excellent indicator of climate change. As the rain patterns changed over time, the water table began to lower further and further down. Each of the ledges indicates a time when the pool was higher up.

Looking closely, you can tell the lower levels were built by a society that was advancing in its architectural ability, as the lower stairs are more regular than those above.

I’d say this well may have taken 2000 years to build to this point. Simply amazing.

What is striking at Chand Baori is the almost hypnotic modularity of the walls. It is ingenuity for survival in a pure state, since for centuries these wells have guaranteed the water supply in one of the countries with the smallest water reserves.

In ancient times, in Rajasthan, gigantic wells began to be dug to exploit the violent, but short monsoon rains that alternated with very long months of drought.In the article when you say “one of the countries with the smallest water reserves”, I would suggest you don't get affected/influenced by world media because it's skewed and biased.

Simple logic - If a country with highest population in the world has lowest water reserves in the world, the population wouldn't survive, let alone thrive. Yet, India is gunning to become the top economy in the world. Simple logic begs one to ask “how is that even possible”? 

These wells were built from the bottom up, paved with huge blocks of stone and equipped with stairways that made it possible to reach the water at any level.

The rainwater purification technique was refined: the water falling into the well filtered through the very fine silt, reaching the bottom covered with clay, to be then available in the dry season.

For millennia, these systems have helped entire populations fight drought.

Today, many wells are closed and replaced by a traditional system of aqueducts that does not solve the water emergency.

These amazing engineering feats have often proved superior to modern plumbing projects that have seen India as a protagonist in recent years.