Agrasen Ki Baoli

Agrasen Ki Baoli (also known as behens Ki Baoli; ) is a 60-meter long and 15-meter wide historical stepwell in New Delhi, India.Agrasen ki Baoli gets new lease of life. The Times of India, 2 January 2002. .

Located on Hailey Road, near Connaught Place, Jantar Mantar, it was designated a protected monument by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act of 1958.

Although there are no known historical records to prove who built the stepwell, it is believed that it was originally built by members of the Aggarwal community in the name of their ancestor Agrasen,Mittal, J.P. (2006), History of Ancient India (4250 BCE to 637 CE) page 675, . The author considers king Agrasen an actual historical figure. and the present architecture hints at it being rebuilt in the 14th century during the Tughlaq or Lodi period of the Delhi Sultanate. The baoli is open daily from 9 am to 5:30 pm.

Toponymy

Baoli or bawdi, also referred to as baori or bauri, is a Hindi word (from Sanskrit Suryakanta (1975), Sanskrit Hindi English Dictionary, page 519, Orient Longman. .Whitworth, George Clifford (1885), An Anglo-Indian Dictionary (see baoli). or , ).Jutta Jain-Neubauer (1981), The step wells of Gujarat in art-historical perspective (see the term).A Sanskrit English Dictionary by Monier Monier-Willams, originally published in 1899 by Clarendon Press, Oxford. Reprinted by Motilal Banarasidass. In Rajasthan and Gujarat the words for stepwell include , , , and . Water temples and temple stepwells were built in ancient India. The earliest forms of stepwell and reservoir were also built in India in places like Dholavira as far back as the Indus Valley Civilisation.

Architecture

This baoli, with 108 steps, is among a few of its kind in Delhi. Three levels of the historic stepwell are visible. Each level is lined with arched niches on both sides. From an architectural perspective, this stepwell was probably rebuilt during the Tughlaq or Lodi period and is flanked by a small three-sided mosque towards the west.Baolis in Delhi a very clear Persian-style architecture – bioclimatic architecture

In popular culture The location has been used to shoot scenes from various Bollywood films, such as Kabhi Alvida na Kehna, Shubh Mangal Savdhan. Blockbuster film PK starring Aamir Khan and Sultan starring Salman Khan were also shot here. It was also featured in the 2017 Sridevi thriller Mom . The stepwell also appeared on the second episode of The Amazing Race Australia 2 in 2012.

There are also urban legends of the stepwell being haunted.

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