ALWAR BAOLI

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A magnificent puckha Bowlie (HERVEY 1853, 1: 452) or baoli (step well). SITUATION: In one way or another just outside the walls enclosing what was recorded as the Motee-Doongree Bagh, or gardens belonging to the Rajah of Alwur or Alwar (note 1). DESCRIPTION: The magnificent puckha Bowlie [note 2] … is on an extensive scale, and though a constant drain is kept on the water, there has been no apparent diminuation as yet. It supplies the canal which flows through the gardens, and which it is purposed in time to extend to a great distance (HERVEY 1853, 1: 450, 452).A magnificent puckha Bowlie (HERVEY 1853, 1: 452) or baoli (step well). SITUATION: In one way or another just outside the walls enclosing what was recorded as the Motee-Doongree Bagh, or gardens belonging to the Rajah of Alwur or Alwar (note 1). DESCRIPTION: The magnificent puckha Bowlie [note 2] … is on an extensive scale, and though a constant drain is kept on the water, there has been no apparent diminuation as yet. It supplies the canal which flows through the gardens, and which it is purposed in time to extend to a great distance (HERVEY 1853, 1: 450, 452).