Hey guys, there is a remote, deserted ancient temple on a hill top, where nobody comes to
visit or worship.
But researchers, historians and archeologists are not only studying this site, but are baffled
by it.
Everything about this temple is a mystery, its origin, its design and its hidden codes.
Let’s go take a look at this extraordinary temple called Vijayalaya Choleeswaram.
Can you see a temple tower behind the trees?
That’s the temple, today it is called Vijayalaya Choleeswaram, but even its real name is debated
by experts.
As soon as I enter, I am surprised by its design.
There is no main entrance to this temple complex?
This is shocking!
You can take any Hindu temple for that matter; an entrance would have been designed directly
in front of the main tower.
There will be a main tower, and there will be at least one more tower, with an entrance
to the temple complex.
But this design is completely different.
Not only that, directly in front of the temple, within a 100 feet distance, we can see a giant
rock face of the hill.
This means nobody can make a grand entrance into the temple, imagine a king sitting on
an elephant, entering the temple.
He cannot do that, he has to come on this side, or on this side, which is weird.
But this gets even more strange, there is one small entrance at the back, but it is
not even designed in the center, it is lopsided.
Why?
If you look carefully, you will realize why, the entrance and the compound wall were renovations,
they were not part of the original temple design.
And there is another aspect that is very odd, the main tower is surrounded by 6 smaller
structures, and they seem to be facing random directions, completely confusing archeologists.
Again, there is no symmetry followed, and you can see that the design does not follow
a typical temple architecture.
From the outside, you can see these domes, although they are destroyed, they resemble
temple tower domes, right?
So, you may think these are also shrines, and have Hindu Gods housed inside.
But what is inside these structures?
When you start entering these structures, you will realize that they are all completely
empty.
There is no trace of any idol and these structures may have always been empty.
WHY?
So, what was the reason for constructing these structures?
Did they use them for some strange scientific experiments?
Why am I talking about scientific experiments on a temple site, right?
Because of these carvings here.
We can see genetically modified animals.
Each Carving is called a Yaali.
Now what does Yaali mean?
Today we have made a new species called liger which is half lion and half tiger, and experts
took the first two letters from Lion and last 3 letters from Tiger, and called it Liger.
But this is not new, it was done in India during ancient times.
The word Yaali comes from ancient Tamil language, and Yaali is a hybrid of elephant and Tiger,
that’s why they took the first half of the word Yaanai which means elephant and the last
half of Puli which means Tiger, and called this animal as Yaali.
And this Yaali may be a genetic, hybrid prototype which could have been combined with many other
animal’s DNA to create more new species.
Now, the question is, is this just fiction, or were ancient Indians manipulating DNA and
experimenting with these animal hybrids?
Believe it or not, we can see a variety of Yaalis and we even have specific names
for them.
The first one is Harin Yali or Deer Hybrid, you can see the curly horns of the deer here,
the second one is Simha Yali which is a lion hybrid, I think the face and mane clearly
show it is a lion, the third one, again a deer hybrid, and the fourth one is even more
strange, because it has the trunk of an elephant, but it also has the horns of a deer.
It is very odd to see regular elephants standing side by, I wonder what the sculptors are trying
to say.
And we can see something even more fantastic here, a human hybrid with Yali – The human
hybrid is actually called Nir Yali.
It looks quite fascinating to see a hybrid with the body of a Yali but the face of a
human.
It has somewhat eroded due to time.
But on the other side, the face is crystal clear.
Look at the nose, it looks completely human.
But it has fangs, sticking out of its mouth, and it has mane like a male lion.
I don't think it has eyelids though.
Did ancient people actually experiment with genetic modification and create new species?
Of course, you can argue that no one ever found skeletons of such hybrid animals, it
is a valid point, but you can also see another strange carving here.
This figure looks like an elephant, but it does not have a trunk, instead it has 2 large
shovel like attachments, almost like the beak of a bird.
Of course, you can say the sculptor has a great imagination, but palaeontologists have
actually found fossils and skeletons of animals looking like this.
They call them Platybelodon or Shovel Tuskers, they look like modern day elephants, but instead
of having a trunk, they have this weird, shovel like mouth.
Is it a coincidence that we see such a carving here?
Or did ancient people actually study and experiment with animals?
Here is another carving I find quite fascinating.
You see what this is?
This is showing the external anatomy of an elephant, it shows the front view and the
side view of an elephant.
Today, when we study biology or veterinary medicine, we study the external anatomy of
animals, and we will use the front view and side view to study their external parts.
That’s exactly what we see here, there is a small band on the elephant’s head, to indicate
that both views show the exact same elephant.
This is a system even the police use today, to profile and study the so called “animals”
before they put them in a cage.
Were ancient people studying and experimenting with animals, just like today?
If so, were they also genetically modifying human beings?
Perhaps the appearance of the doorkeepers can answer this question.
Look at this guy, he has curly curly hairdo spreading out of his head, and has fangs,
sticking out of his mouth.
Is he human, or genetically modified, or is he like a vampire or something?
He also does not seem to have any eyelids, see how his eyeballs are sticking out.
But I like his fashion sense, he is wearing shorts but it is, so thin and see through.
And he is wearing armlets on both hands, look at that, he is wearing demon shaped armlets.
If fashion designers see this today, they will flood the market with these armlets right
away.
And he is holding something.
What is it?
This is the world’s very first buzzer or the doorbell that signals the boss about a
visitor.
Look at how he is holding the rope in one hand, and the rope is completely covered with
bells.
When a visitor comes to see the boss, look at his left hand.
He will ask “What do you want?”, like a typical security guard.
And if you don’t give a good answer, he will reply with this deadly weapon in the
other hand.
But if you actually had an appointment with the boss, and he is satisfied with you, he
will pull the rope to ring the bells which will notify the boss.
Now, who is the Boss?
Unfortunately, this is locked and we cannot go inside.
The main chamber houses a single lingam, he is the boss.
There are no other carvings on the pillars or on the walls, and this is also very unusual.
Not only on the inside walls, the outer walls are also completely blank.
The temple’s design is a big mystery, it has a circle at the top, and this circular
design goes all the way to the ground, making a cylindrical main chamber that houses the
lingam.
These cylindrical chambers are very rare in Hindu temples, and this main chamber is surrounded
by a square structure, and then everything is enveloped by a weird kind of a square key hole shape like this.
On top, there is a huge open area, a flat surface, like 20, 30 people can stand here,
that’s how much space is left, this is also not typical of a Hindu temple, and I don’t
know why this empty, flat space was needed.
Because of all these unusual features, archeologists and historians are having heated debates about
the origin and the original builders of this temple.
Everyone agrees that the temple’s name is Vijayala Choleeswaram, but experts don’t
agree that it was built by Vijayala Chola.
This is very surprising because the name of the king Vijayalaya Chola must have been used
to name the temple.
During this time, the temples were named after the kings who built them.
But experts think, this king did not build this.
And even though there are lots of inscriptions, they are all mentioning only renovations, not
construction from the scratch.
So as of today, it is still not decided, it is a mystery who built this temple, but experts
agree that this was the inspiration to build great temples like the Brihadeeswara temple.
Not only that, they also agree that this temple pre-dates every other temple of the Chola
dynasty, and date it around 850 A.D.
That means this temple is more than 1,100 years old.
And It is made a 100% out of stone.
No metal, no wood, nothing.
This is called Built-On architecture, where you keep adding one stone on top of another
to build a structure.
But in the same temple complex, we can see a completely opposite construction technique
as well.
There are 2 cave temples in front of this tower, and these 2 are artificial caves, where
they removed the rocks, not add anything to it, they had to remove huge chunks of rock
to make these carvings.
And the carvings are very very strange.
The wall has 12 carvings, each one is gigantic, more than 7 feet tall, but they are all showing the
same God, Vishnu.
We have thousands and thousands of Gods and Goddesses in the Hindu pantheon, why would
they carve the same God 12 times, side by side.
And even more crazy, they are all identical, Lord Vishnu can be shown in a hundred different
varieties, but these carvings are identical to one another.
And this gets even more weird as we see inside the chamber.
There is a very odd lingam, if you can even call it a lingam.
A lingam is usually a long cylinder, but there is no cylinder here, it is just a mound, but
if you see on top of this, you can see another odd feature, you can see tiny little pits,
tiny depressions.
There are exactly 24 of these tiny little unexplained pits.
What could possibly be the purpose for these.
Now, let’s see, there are 3 major shrines, and 6 smaller chambers, and 12 Vishnu statues,
and 24 depressions on this lingam.
Coincidence?
What do you say?
This is just a sample, because many such secret codes are hidden in this temple.
All the temples built after this one, were all built at ground level, in plains, they
were built in densely populated places, to make sure they get a lot of visitors.
But this one, the builders must have had a completely different reason for building this.
It appears that they did not want any visitors, that’s why they built it in such a remote
place, on a hill.
And even today, with India being the second largest populated country, this temple gets
less than 10 visitors a week.
Why did ancient builders purposely choose this difficult location?
And please observe carefully, they had to flatten this surface artificially, to erect
this temple.
At first look, it seems like a perfectly flat area on a hill top, but this is not natural,
and it is not easy to make a bedrock, flat.
They had to cut the uneven rock surface, in this area, to make it flat.
As you can see here, only one half of this temple was made flat, so the ancient builders
definitely struggled with this.
On the left side of the temple, you can see the slope, and they had to adjust the smaller
shrines, rather than make the rock surface flat, because it is very difficult.
But why didn’t they just choose to build in an easier location?
Why did they make such a unique design?
Who actually built this temple?
What was the purpose of these 6 empty chambers?
Did they study animals and experiment with genetic modification?
What is the secret of the numerical codes 3,6,12 and 24?
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