3.0 RELIGIOUS STATUS OF WATER  

3.1 Since ages together, feeding water to a thirsty individual is considered to be an act of righteousness. In the science of Architecture, it is mentioned that water is a life of every living creature and hence whoever would go for constructing a well, a tank or a step-well, would go to heaven and will get final salvation. People had maximum honour and respect for those citizens who were getting the tanks constructed. In such a situation, many kings in past, used to get the big lakes constructed wherever they dwealt/resided. They simultaneously undertook the work of creating water reservoirs. Some of them got constructed step well, tank or a well in the memory of their forefathers. At some places people themselves implemented the excavation work of new tanks to meet with the scarcity of water during the famine periods. In this background only, every religion or sect on this earth, see water from humanitarian point of view as per which, it is addressed in different ways by different religious or legendary books as under: