The geography of the Baroda megacity is dotted with several‘vavs’ (stepwell) and had further than 100 vavs at one point in time. Unfortunately, many of them are accessible and indeed smaller are in a well- maintained state. 

Positioned in the outskirts of the city, on the way to Sindhrot is the 500- time–old Sevasi Vav. Considered as the oldest and most beautiful vav of Sultan Mehmud Begada’s time. According to a Devnagari necrology on one of its ray, it was erected around 1496 (Vikram Samvat 1549). The necrology also states that it was erected to commemorate a spiritual leader, Vidyadhar, who failed beforehand and was deified in Sevasi vill.

The vav is erected with a combination of slipup masonry and a system of gravestone columns and goes seven situations below the ground. Just like any other vav, this bone is also acquainted in the east-west direction. It’s decorated with motifs of torans, flowers, bells and of creatures similar as mammoths and nags and catcalls. The intermediate situations of the vav have false‘jharokhas’on its walls inscribed with flowery patterns. The structure is penetrated through a gate-suchlike structure with a pate in the center. This gate is decorated with motifs of mammoths and barracuda in relief work on the right and left side independently. It’s said, youthful girls decked in gold were offered at Sevasi stepwell on full moon nights, for substance.