THE SUN TEMPLE

The sun temple

The sun temple

The Sun Temple at Konarak was built in about 1250 AD by the East Ganga king Narasimhadeva. It is considered he constructed the temple to commemorate infantry achievements contrary to Muslim invaders. (Hemanth, 1984)

According to local legend, the temple has a large aura of power that arrives from two very mighty magnets said to have been constructed into the tower - magnets that permitted the king's throne to hover in mid-air. European mariners cruising off the seaboard area utilized the temple's tower for navigation, but named it the Black Pagoda for the common shipwrecks that appeared along the coast. They attributed the catastrophes to the legendary magnets' result on the affected by surges pattern. Konarak was sacked by the Muslim Yavana armed detachment in the 15th century. (Hemanth, 1984)The centered statue enshrined in the temple was smuggled away to Puri by clerics, but the Sun Temple was awfully impaired in the attack. Nature took over the decimation from there. Over the centuries, the ocean receded, sand engulfed the construction and brackish breezes eroded the stone. It stayed interred under a gigantic mound of sand until the early 20th century, when restoration started under the British. (Hemanth, 1984)

British archaeologists uncovered the smaller components of the temple that had stayed well maintained under the sand and refurbished what they could of remainder of the ruins. Trees were sown to protect the temple from the impairing winds and a repository was opened to brandish anything sculpture wasn't left in situ or dispatched to Delhi, Calcutta and London.

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