One of my unsurpassed most loved Indian designs is the thirteenth century wonder - the Konarka Sun Temple - done by King Narasimhadeva I (1238-1250 CE) of the Eastern Ganga Dynasty and committed to the Sun God Surya. The primary fascination of the sanctuary is its twelve sets of wheels situated at the base of the sanctuary. These wheels are not customary wheels but rather read a clock also – the spokes of the wheels make a sundial. One can compute the exact time by simply taking a gander at the shadow cast by these spokes. Even all the more dazzling that an iron plate is sandwiched between each two stones developing the sanctuary.
And afterward this reality: that a 52-ton magnet was utilized to make the pinnacle of the fundamental sanctuary. It is said that the whole structure has endured the cruel conditions particularly of the ocean in view of this magnet, and the extraordinary plan of the fundamental magnet alongside different magnets would prior reason the primary symbol of the sanctuary to glide in air!
ANOTHER FACT: that the most punctual engineering that anybody thinks about from India dates to around 2500 BC, in the Harappan time frame in northern India (present day Pakistan). The Harappans assembled large urban areas, with dividers around them and open showers and distribution centers and cleared roads. Be that as it may, when Harappan development crumbled, around 2000 BC, right around 2,000 years passed by before anyone in India fabricated a major stone structure once more!
At the point when Indian modelers began to construct huge structures once more, around 250 BC, from the start they assembled them of wood. No one in India realized how to assemble enormous stone structures so they wouldn't tumble down. Truth be told, just under the Gupta Empire in 350 AD, did we begin building stone sanctuaries like the Ellora and the Ajanta.
This, when around 2600 years back, they knew the entirety of this!!!
