Hi dear Hive community,
To be honest, one of our main reasons to visit Hampi was because of the Vitthala temple. It is also known as the musical temple, which we discovered by watching Youtube channel from guy named Praveen Mohan. In his video about the temple he is showing the insane skills of ancient builders and knowledge about frequencies, sound and psymedics.
The entry fee for foreigners is 600 IRP, but it included three sightseeing- Vitthala temple, Lotus Mahal and Hampi museum. We visited the other two places, which were also interesting to see and explore.
The temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu and was built between 1422 – 1446 A.D. The area consists of many smaller temples, amazing door gates and big covered hallways supported by gigantic pillars. The ground level is always made out of pure granit, meanwhile the top is build with lighter material, mostly some type of bricks. The main temple is surrounded by thick and high walls to protect the main idle in the center chamber. In front of that is standing a big stone chariot. The reels look astonishing and it's unbelievable to see chariot made of pure granit stone.
The main and most important temple is currently under construction. There you can find original pillars that make the complete sounds of Indian musical scale. Besides that ancient builders put many flower patterns on the ceiling, which represent each frequency also called psymedics. We were really mind blow that the ancient civilizations knew so much about sound and architecture.
Until today remain unknown how they were able to create the pillars. When British were discovering the area of their colony, they cut out two pillars to analyse how they made this. People were convinced that they are hollow, which is causing the sound. What they actually saw, was just normal big granit pillar. One possible guess would be that they used rock melting technology, which is even today with modern technology unimaginable to create.
By accident we discovered that besides main temple also the ones on the outskirts make sound! The first moment knocking on this granit rocks was unforgettable. We were so happy that we found this. Majority of people think only few make sound and don't even know how they look like.
Happy and full of excitement and adrenaline about what we have just witnessed we headed towards the nearby food parlour in the outskirts. The Indian Thali we had was one of the best we had so far.
Thank you for reading. Wish you a nice day!
*All the text we wrote is from what we've read from the signboards or were told by the guides.
Hard to believe these historic temples and incredible structures have been around since 1422-1446 A.D. and withstood the intense elements.Awesome photos and writeup! @thefootprint
Yes it's true! More interesting is how they even make all this details and carvings. It's incredible to see in real life this gigantic rock sculptures.
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It's simply amazing!
It’s wonderful further to read about this, and it’s hard even to imagine your emotions and feelings!
The architecture is impressive with its grandiose scale! Truly the house of God!
Is this construction or restoration?
And what a great sadness about the lost knowledge of our wisest ancestors. They didn’t know diseases, but they knew how a healthy body should live and how to help it!
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Agreed, it was such an amazing experience. Being there so small under all this granit masterpiece. ☝️
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I guess neither of these. They also have boards saying it's under construction, however they are removing and cutting away certain carvings, ceiling pieces to move them to safety aka museum. On top of that they are adding more pillars to give better support. It's strange what they are doing, demolishing a very well preserved temple 🤷🏼♀️😅
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I believe, the idea was not to have a temple with such amount of holes 😀, so it's not perseved so perfect
May be, that just trying to save some parts for ages, for thousands-thousands years!
Not really sure, that I understand correct, what do you mean... Your English is quite good, as for me.
Thank you for dialogue!
The granit temple is massive and lasted for thousands of years already so I guess it could last for long long periods. Just taking away piece by piece is not ideal solution, but yes if there is no other option 🤷🏼♀️
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Somethings are left buried but who knows... either or it's still some amazing architecture though!!!
Yes, many things remain a mystery. The work and things people did in the past, they must have been quite different than we imagine being less advanced etc. 😆
Like you've said, we will never know 🥲
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Please, if you have an opportunity one day go and visit Hampi. We think it's really one of most interesting places in India! 👌
I (sagarkothari88) have been to Humpi. Thank you for recommending it to @bhattg. Thank you for sharing such wonderful post about Humpi.
Wow! That's so nice! Then you know exactly what we are talking about @sagarkothari88, the energy and beauty of the place cannot be even described! 😄😄
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