The open channel is visible cutting across the arid landscape a few meters off the Mahanamavi dibba. The stepped tank, perfectly symmetrical and built out of black schist, is very easy on the eyes and easier to photograph.
The tank has pyramids built into the design upright as well as upside down. The tank is one of the most spectacular discoveries of recent time (discovered in 1981), and measures 22 meters on the side and 7 meters deep (22/7 = ratio of the phi)
If you notice the photo on the left, the channel that pours water into the tank is not well aligned with any of the elements. Shivraj, out guide, told me that the step below the channel had a basin (the step does have a drilled hole and could have received the based of one).
Somehow, the two seemed disjoint to my amateur eyes.
I
noticed this lack of symmetry in two other places (1) The entrance to the Queen's bath and (2) the back side of the Lotus Mahal.
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