Posted on 06/20/2020 9:32:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Villagers from the Perumallapadu village in the Pradesh's Nellore district of India have unearthed the 300-year-old Temple of Nageswara Swamy on the banks of the Penna River.
The temple became buried around 1850 when the village became submerged due to flooding. This caused the village to relocate and the resulting build-up of sand dunes in the vicinity swallowed the temple.
Due to Covid-19 lockdown, villagers who had heard tales from their elders about a lost temple decided to try and locate it themselves.
The temple is a brick-built temple dedicated to the Hindu deity, Lord Nageshwara (Shiva) and was built around 300 years ago along with the Kotiteertham temple and Sangam Sivalayam temple. Much of the temple complex remains buried, with only the Mukha Mantapam and some of the outlining buildings exposed.
The officials of the Archaeology and Endowments departments have announced that they plan to carry out works to further excavate and restore the temple, whilst respecting the sentiments of the villagers.
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Built in the early 1700s - buried in 1850.
Not a very long use span.
:)
Amazing searching for a temple based on tales told by elders.
And finding it.
I would figure since it’s 300 years old there would be records on it in some form. I guess not.
Or someone’s writings about it being lost.
I can’t image the excitement of walking into for the first time when they get to that point
Dancing with all those arms doing nothing...
It flooded that high?
I will guess the top layer was wind driven.
The Taliban will get right on it. Or maybe the Eastern Division of BLM can start tearing it down.
Darn, I came in for a break from yard work and had the exact same thought as you, only 50 minutes too late. See #26.
I'll send a crew right over...
That's what I thought, too. Maybe literacy arrived very late in that region and there were no written records except for what was in the temple itself. I don't know if India has written records that go back centuries like Europe.
I’ll bet no Zoom meetings were required to coordinate this project
That would make sense. I really don’t know much about the country in terms of its evolution.
I don’t even know what the big cities were like then there, no less outside villages :-)
Wild guess is, the water came from higher ground, and the overall terrain is hilly.
Oppenheimer also had a pool regarding whether the atmospheric test would be sufficient to cause a massive nuclear chain reaction in the Earth's atmosphere, thus destroying everything. It was just some egghead humor.
Good flick. (Narrated by William Shatner!)
Hi.
Didn’t Mr. Oppenheimer also say, paraphrasing, “ I’ve become the destroyer of worlds?”
Or was it Mr. Teller?
5.56mm
Geez... how close to the river was it?
Exactly!
The Hindus have some 330 million different faces of god. Shiva IS one of the three main ones: the other two being Vishnu and Brahma.
The Hindus are very "liquid" with their attitudes about God. They do, however, have some very strange ideas about life and death.
SUTTEE was where widows LEAPED into their dead husband's funeral pyre. That is illegal now.
The SADHUS are an all together VERY, VERY strange. A Sadhu and swami, sadhu also spelled saddhu, in India, is a religious ascetic or holy person. The class of sadhus includes "renunciants" of many types and faiths. You want the weirdest and most bizarre? Check out what some of these men do.
The Chinese are very easy to figure our: luck and money are their two "gods" and their lives all revolve around money.
Apparently a little *too*. :^)
Literacy in societies was for a very long time confined to a small part of the population, basically, people who ran things. But the survival in folklore probably suffers when a society becomes more broadly literate. In some of the Time Team episodes this or that rumored lost medieval structure turns out to have been photographed before demolition, including one that wasn't torn down until the 1950s, not that long ago. :^)
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