Kapadvanj

Kapadwanj Karpat – Vanjiyam or "The Land of Textile" is a town as well as one of the Taluka of the Kheda district in the Gujarat India. It is situated on bank of stream Mohar. It is 71 km far from Ahmedabad and 93 km far from Vadodara. Jayasimha Siddharaja 1094 – 1143, Chaulukya ruler, constructed a portion of Gujarat's best engineering structures. He had assembled two impeccable Vavs step wells and a Torana at the focal point of the old town. The fundamental structure called kundvav is a rectangular structure, like arrangement of Modhera Sun Temple step well.

Notwithstanding, it is littler and less difficult than Modhera's. Kapadvanj was a noteworthy exchanging focus on the course inland from the port of Cambay and exchange brought it riches and significance in the time Siddharaj Jayasinh. As it was found near Mohar River, it was an ideal place for developing advance wells for water supply. As indicated by neighborhood history specialists and elderly people the town had five doors. The torana at Kapadvanj is one among the 13 kirtistambhas in Gujarat; anyway it is among the best safeguarded, simply after the Vadnagar torana. It has two columns and a transverse architrave. The whole torana is secured with expound models.