Ancient Places in India, must visit.

Top  6  best Ancient places in india, you must visit.

  _An beautiful melee of science - Konark sun Temple

A stone wheel engraved in the walls of the temple. The temple is designed as a chariot consisting of 24 such wheels. Each wheel has a diameter of 9 feet, 9 inches, with 8 spokes.

    The Sun Temple at Konark,the meaning of konark is Kona = Corner or angle and Arka = Sun ,The Arka refers to the Hindu sun god Surya. Sun Temple is constructed in an eponymous village about 35 kilometres (22 mi) northeast of Puri in the Indian state of Odisha. ,In Hindu Vedic iconography Surya is traveling across the sky drawn by seven horses, The seven horses are named after the seven meters of Sanskrit prosody: Gayatri, Brihati, Ushnih, Jagati, Trishtubha, Anushtubha, and Pankti.^[each of them 3 m in diameter, temple pulled by seven horses and guarded by two lions at the entrance that bravely elephants.

panoramic view of temple

The Konark sun temple is also known for its erotic sculptures of maithunas. The temple having the traditional style of Kalinga architecture. It is An example of beautiful melee of science, There are three statues of the sun god that catch the rays of the sun at dawn, noon and at the time of sunset. Rabindranath Tagore has said about the temple “Here the language of stone surpasses the language of human” . According to Ernest Binfield Havell, the Konark temple is "one of the grandest examples of Indian sculpture extant" and this what the reason visitors like to visit this place.

    The beauty of Aurangabad- Ajanta  caves..

     The Ajanta Caves are rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments, the caves are located in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra in India.  peoples are believed to have been made a refuge for the Buddhist monks during the rains. Some go as far as to say that they were pathways to heaven. UNESCO says these are masterpieces of Buddhist religious art that influenced the Indian art that followed. The caves were built in two phases, the first phase starting in the 2nd century BCE and the second phase was built around 400–650 CE,

With numerous carvings that describe the life and times of the eras. The caves run for a mind numbing length of 29 rock cut caves, all of which have both female and male representation, which is a rare  Examples of immense scientific calculations are evident. The Ajanta Caves are located on the side of a rocky cliff that is on the north side of a U-shaped gorge on the small river Waghur in the Deccan plateau. there are number of waterfalls, which when the river is high, are audible from outside the caves. The Ajanta style is also found in the Ellora Caves, other sites such as the Elephanta Caves and the temples of caves of Karnataka, hence the Ellora Caves, Ajanta is the major tourist attraction of Maharashtra.

      _The Vijayanagar Empire 

     The Vijayanagar Empire also called Karnataka Empire and the Kingdom of Bisnegar. The empire is named after its capital city of Vijayanagara, whose ruins surround present day Hampi. The landscape of Hampi in Karnataka with the flows of the beautiful Tungabhadra River and rocky outcrops that form the major part of landscape Displaying an innate sense of Indian craftsmanship, marke. Think the prosperity of the empire that has stables for elephants. The Vitthala Temple among these is the finest example of ornate architecture, halls, sanctum and sabha mandapas. The temple also has a market street right in the middle and a richly carved step well called Pushkarini.

side view of temple. 

Vijayanagara architecture is a vast combination of the Chalukya, Hoysala, Pandya and Chola styles. Another element of the Vijayanagara style is the carving and consecration of large monoliths such as the Sasivekalu and Kadale Kaalu  Ganesha at Hampi, the Gommateshwara monoliths in Karkala and the Nandi bull in Lepakshi. The Vijayanagara temples of Kolar, Kanakagiri, Sringeri and other towns of Karnataka; the temples of Tadpatri, Lepakshi, Ahobilam, Virumalaenkateswara Temple and Srikalahasti in Andhra Pradesh and the temples of Vellore, Kumbakonam, Kanchi are examples of this style. It is a World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India and most popular visiting place.

    _The Ellora Caves

picture capture from top back side of cave.

     The Ellora caves located in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra in India, Ellora Caves, along with the nearby Ajanta Caves. There is something great about this place that takes you to a journey in the history where all these religions born and grew together. There are over 100 caves at the site, all excavated from the basalt cliffs in the Charanandri Hills and 34  of which monasteries and temples are carved and dug together on the wall of a huge basalt cliff in and open for visiting.

Front view of Ellora cave.

The 12 caves of the Buddhist group speaks about the benevolence of this calm religion, Buddhism; 17 hindi and 5 jain caves. Ellora, also called Verul or Elura, is the short form of the ancient name Elopura. The earliest caves have been built during the Traikutakas and Vakataka dynasties, the latter being known for sponsoring the Ajanta caves. The Ellora caves is a sculpture’s beautiful blended expression of three major Indian regions which are Buddhism, Brahmanism and Jainism. this is best place for visitors .

     _The Rani ki vav

     Rani Ki Vav is an ancient step-well and Situated in Patan, Gujarat. that was built by Rani Udaymati in 11th Century AD.  It is located on the banks of Saraswati River. Stepwells are a distinctive form of subterranean water resource and it has storage systems on the Indian subcontinent, If you go to see each of them up close, even their expressions and ‘mudras’ (gestures) are evident. When the Saraswati River changed course due to tectonic disturbances, it flooded the step-well that both beautified and preserved it next. At the centre of the well lies a carving of Sheshnag Vishnu, that displays precious and mysterious look and built of brick. Step-wells are not only a place for interaction and socializing but, as the temple suggests, even places where the royal families would seek refuge at during the months of dreary summers with the water acting as a natural coolant. 

 Up to the town of Sidhpur near Patan, there is even a 30 km long tunnel that runs through the step-well which leads to the neighboring town of Siddhpur, used by the king to seek refuge in the time of war, It was used as an escape gateway for the king, who built the step well in the times of defeat.  It is huge level of scientific and architectural prowess would it have taken to conjure up a monument. It is antique and best place to visit.

  

   _Beuty of world -Taj  Mahal

Front view of Taj Mahal.

      Taj Mahal located in the Indian city of Agra. It is an ivory-white marble, mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river. Built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in 1653 on the large area of 17-hectare , it is one of the most precious gestures of love to ever be materialized on the face of earth. Rabindranath Tagore famously said about this place, “The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time”.The Taj Mahal designed and expands on design traditions of Persian and earlier Mughal architecture. There is a sense of melancholy as one approaches the monument, a sense of pain of a lover separated from his wife by death. The imperial court documenting Shah Jahan's grief after the death of Mumtaz Mahal illustrate the love story held as the inspiration for Taj Mahal. There is a big story behind that.

Long shot view of Taj mahal.

The white marble was bought in from Makrana in Rajasthan and was transported by elephants. In its days of  the Taj Mahal was builded with no less than 28 types of precious stones, brought  from Tibet and Persia.  Like the moods of queen, the exterior of the Taj also changes colors from a pinkish hue in the dawn to a dull gold at noon and finally, all enduring  whitish sparkling under the moonlight.The Taj Mahal attracts a large number of tourists, Most tourists visit in the cooler months of October, November and February. The Taj Mahal, which also appears in several listings of seven wonders of the modern world, including the recently announced New Seven Wonders of the World.

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