As you step into the premises, to your right side, you’ll see a set of marble slates propped up on concrete that contain a small document on the history of Agrasen Ki Baoli. ‘Baoli’ means a step-well ad that is the foremost thing about this structure. It was built as a storage facility to counter the seasonal fluctuations of water availability at that point of time. The left side of the entrance is roughly a several hundred meter courtyard overlooked by a giant Banyan tree that stands at the corner of the first enclosure.

Inside, you’ll find yourself looking down towards a pit like structure that is eased into hundred and eight steps. It is flanked by two walls made of red stones and the area outside the walls has a thick cover of trees that overlook the Baoli. It’s rather dry and the walls have thirty seven arched corridors that are not thoroughly built but the frames only. It is infested by pigeons for the most part; they have taken over the entire structure and the structural stone shows multitude of wear and tear. The absolute mystery of people vandalizing the arches seems to him a lesser crime as the place carries its course through the history of time as something time sensitive. Surprisingly, young millennial throng this place in pairs and so does a majority of tourists, the entry is free and one sole guard overlooks from the top as if the entire Baoli is clasped in his eyes.

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