Hey guys, How did ancient builders manage to build such giant temples in India?
Did they use primitive tools like chisels and hammers or did they accomplish these giant
monuments using some type of advanced technology? The best example of this,
is the great Brihadeeswara temple in Tanjavur. Experts confirm that this gigantic temple
was completed within just seven years. So how did ancient builders construct such a giant temple in
just seven years to find the answer to this question, we have to go to this small village
called Thiruvidaimarudur. The word 'vidai' in tamil actually means answer.
So let's go to this village and see if we can find the answer to this question.
You can see this beautiful beautiful structure in the middle of the temple tank and
this temple tank is a part of this giant temple complex called Mahalinga swami temple. Now the
Mahalinga swami temple predates the Brihadeeswara temple by at least one or two centuries and the
Brihadeeswara temple itself is said to be modeled after this temple and this temple is said to be
the first chola temple to be built using this unique, advanced technology. This temple is not
considered to be built with chisels and hammers but rather a unique technology was employed.
What is that unique technology we are talking about let's go inside the temple and find out.
So, what is that unique technology? This round mark on this block of stone. It looks
like a target, doesn't it? Now, what is so special about this? Think about this, if you look around,
there are thousands of stone blocks right? Why is this stone block marked
like a target? like a bull's eye? What is so special about this? If you see these blocks,
these are all made apparently of the same material but yet this one is marked differently. Why? There
seems to be no difference. Of course, some of you will say 'Praveen, you always make a big deal
about Hindu temples. We know hindu temples had thousands of deities and possibly even hundreds
of thousands of different rituals and they did all sorts of, you know various things because they had
many superstitious beliefs. But I always say, there was a specific reason for everything in
all Hindu temples. So, is this just a meaningless ritual? No, let me try something else. See here,
this is how a granite block should sound. Let me try this...
can you hear this? So here..
it sounds totally different, sounds so crazy... Look at this
How is this possible? See look at this block and look at this block right there seems to be
no difference in the stone blocks yet in this bull's eye it sounds completely different okay.
So that's just incredible. What is the actual purpose of this? This is where we are really
getting confused about ancient technology. First of all, we don't know how they accomplished this.
Even though they look alike. Everything looks the same and if you claim this is accidental,
ancient builders should not have figured out that this is a special stone. In fact,
they had it marked which means this was done intentionally. This is not accidental
okay. Ancient builders knew exactly what they were doing. So we know they placed this block
with a specific purpose. Now what is that purpose? believe it or not there were once four blocks like
this in four walls of this gigantic temple. There were four special blocks and if you tap on them,
it is said that it was able to levitate the stone blocks. It is said, that by tapping on these stone
blocks at a specific rhythm on all the four stone blocks, they were able to levitate these giant
stone blocks and that's why they were able to build these massive towers of the temple. And
this temple is said to be the first temple built with this kind of sound levitation technology. Now
of the four stone blocks only this block is still marked. The rest of the stone blocks have been
lost because many of the stone blocks have been removed and replaced in the name of renovation.
In fact, there are a lot of inscriptions on these stone blocks which attest to the fact that,
many of the original stone blocks have been removed. So if possible we may be able to locate
more stone blocks. The special stone blocks if this is stone at all okay. I don't know, what to
call this, but I want to call this 'Sound Round' okay. So if possible, i'm going to explore around
and locate if there's yet another sound round. So let's go take a look and see if we get lucky.
Wow, can you guys see this? I think, that's another sound round. Can you guys see this?
Now unfortunately, it's way up top. So I cannot reach this. But I think, that's another sound
round because that's on the other side of the temple and this is possibly another one.
But there's no way for me to tap on this and see if it sounds differently.
Now I'm always interested in how sounds were used in ancient India. There was a huge field
specifically called mantra, associated for doing physical stuff. They were able to manifest
things physically using sound and as you can see, the sounds always have an impact on us. Even
a bird randomly screeching can completely change the mood we are in and ancient builders of India
were acutely aware of how sounds were influencing us. Now how were these sound rounds
used in building these gigantic temples? Some say that, there were four sound rounds
placed around the four walls of this temple and by tapping on them in specific frequencies,
they were able to lift these giant stone blocks all the way to the top. This would have been
a very interesting way of building these temples. Now think about today's drone for example,
how do we work today's drone or even how we play video games? We use a joystick in
four different directions. How do we use a bulldozer or a JCB to lift these giant stone
blocks? This person is not using a button or a keyboard. This person is using a four
different directional joystick. This is probably, how ancient people did lift these stone blocks.
They had these sound rounds in four different directions and they were tapping on them or using
some other type of manipulation, to lift these stone blocks. Now, Is this just a theory? No,
in Tibet, people have actually seen this process, where people lift these giant stone blocks
using sound, this is called acoustic levitation. So what do you think? Was there something called
acoustic levitation technology in ancient India? Is this how they were able to lift these
massive stone blocks and build these giant temples or did everything you see just point to
meaningless rituals? Please let me know your thoughts in the comment section. I'm Praveen
Mohan. Thanks a lot for watching. Don't forget to subscribe and I'll talk to you soon bye!
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