Hey guys, imagine walking into a 1000-year-old temple and you see a ceiling that is using
5 types of wooden rods.
Some are cylindrical, some have 4 facets, some have 6 facets, some even have 10 facets.
And you see giant wooden rafters and planks making up the ceiling.
These wooden rods are inserted through these planks, and for reinforcement, you can also
see these twisted reinforced metal rod inserted for additional support.
On top of this, all these are fastened together with metal bolts and nails.
You would wonder, how ancient builders did such advanced engineering more than a 1000
years ago, right?
But, what if I told you that none of these are made of wood or metal.
These rods, the planks, the twisted bar and even the nails were individually made of granite
and then assembled.
Yes, this is what we see in the ancient temple of Tirupperunturai, which is 1100 years old.
Mainstream experts say that each rod you see is made of out of granite, this twisted rod
reminds you of modern metal reinforcing bars, right?
But ancient builders made twisted granite bars, made holes through these granite planks,
and inserted the rod and then put granite nails, for a tight fastening.
Imagine inserting 5 more different types of granite rods, cylindrical, cuboid, 6 faceted,
8 faceted and even10 faceted granite rods and putting granite nails in place.
This technology is so futuristic, we do not have such stone technology even today.
Today, engineers use wood to create something similar and they call it batten roofing.
The idea is the same, they use wooden rafters etc, and put metal nails to fasten everything
together.
People think the batten roofing was introduced in 1950s, less than 100 years ago, but we
can see the batten roof in this temple, which is more than 1000 years old.
But this is unbelievable, right?
How could the “primitive” ancient builders make such batten roofing using granite, which
is one of the hardest rocks in the world?
Is it really made of granite, or is everything made of clay or terracotta, and sculptors
merely moulded it to look like granite?
There is a very good chance that sculptors took clay and made them into these complex
patterns and baked them to look batten like roofing, right?
But it is not just you or me who is in disbelief, the British officers stationed here during
colonial times, also did not believe that it is made of granite.
It is said that a British officer finally got tired of hearing this nonsense of advanced
ancient technology and decided to debunk it.
So, he took a rifle and fired a shot at the roof, expecting the clay roof to shatter into
a million pieces.
And he was shocked because the bullet simply made a hole, and the rest of it was just intact.
Stunned, he shot again, and again just another hole in the roof.
Forget shattering, not even a crack was formed around the bullet hole, so, he finally had
to accept that yes, everything is made of granite.
In fact, there is a plaque inside the temple, written in Tamil language, which proudly says
the British shot through the ceiling to check if it was really made of granite, because
they could not believe such a structure could be made out of rocks.
But what do westerners know about Ancient Indian Stone Technology right?
If we ask the traditional Indian sculptors, they could explain how their ancestors did
this in the past, right?
No, I came across something very interesting.
The traditional Indian builders accept that this is a lost-technology that cannot be re-created.
So even today, every time they are hired to build a new temple, in the building contract,
they include a specific clause that mentions that they cannot build a ceiling like the
Tirupperunturai temple.
And this is clause was not added in the last few decades, it is said that this clause has
been there for many centuries, it is part of the tradition itself.
So you can understand that it is impossible to re-create such a structure.
Now, what do experts say?
This is the mainstream information, and you can even see this on Wikipedia.
It clearly says “The ropes, rafters and nails all are made of granite”.
This means, they are telling us that the ropes, or the twisted rods, the rafters, and nails
are individually made of granite and then fit together.
This is what experts say, but in my opinion this is impossible.
Remember, if you watch my channel, I am a big supporter of advanced ancient technology
and I have shown you many videos about how ancient builders implemented a variety of
technologies in the past.
But If I say, I do not believe they could do that, that means this is a completely futuristic,
almost unimaginable technology.
My theory is that these are giant granite blocks, cut skilfully to give you an appearance
of a batten roof.
I do not think this is one stone rod that continuously passes through stone planks,
and stone nails are then hammered in, to put them together.
Why do I say this, right?
For a nail or a rivet to go through an object, the nail should be harder than the object.
If I take a metal nail, I can easily drive it into a wooden plank, nothing is crazy about
this.
But if I take a wooden nail and drive it into the same type of wood, it will not pierce
through it, right?
Why?
Because the nail should be made of a harder material than the object.
So, a granite nail would not go through a granite block.
I do not think of them as individual nails, I only think of them as carvings, giving the
appearance of nails.
I will give you another example, look at these twisted granite bars, you would have seen
similar metal rebars or reinforcing bars, in every construction site.
Most people don’t know the amount of rebars used in a construction site, until they demolish
that building.
But, why do they twist these metal bars and put them inside buildings?
Because they have a higher tensile strength than concrete.
So, they add these bars to change the strength of the entire structure in modern buildings.
But, in this temple, there is no need to twist granite rods and then add it other granite
blocks, because there would be no change in the strength of the structure.
So, for reasons like these, I believe that these are giant stone blocks carved and then
placed side by side to given an appearance of a batten roof.
However I cannot confirm this, unless I am allowed to take a closer look.
It is one of those things where I don’t believe it, but I want it to be true.
Because if experts analyse this and confirm that these are individual rafters, rods and
granite nails put together, then this temple would not only be recognized as a UNESCO world
heritage site, it could even be recognized as a wonder of the world, because of such
a unique technology.
So, what do you think?
Is it possible to make such a roof system using granite rods, granite nails etc?
Did ancient builders have such a technology, a futuristic stone technology?
Or, are these merely carvings, imitating the batten roof system?
Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section, I am Praveen Mohan, thanks a lot
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