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“At Kapaḍvanj...........is a large spuare kuṇḍa or reservoir in the market place. This occupies an area about a hundred feet square, with a platform below the first descent, from which a series of short stairs, parallel to the sides, lead down from one narrow landing to another, and reaching a broader one about 33 feet from the first. Between each pair of descending steps in each of five tiers is a niche—some hundred and thirty-six in all—originally occupied by images . . . . . In the centre is a deep well about nine and a half feet square.”
(Ahmadabad Arch, Burgess, Arch. Surv. New. Imp. series, vol. xxxiii, p. 94, plates lxxx, lxxxi).