Hey guys, today we are going to talk about some shocking ancient artifacts found in India.
Let's watch this clip.
The person who sent me this clip claims that this was found in an archeological site called
Keeladi, however I do not think that this was found in that site.
Keeladi is a protected archeological site and only archeologists can dig in that site.
Just by looking at how hundreds of people are pulling up this ancient statue, we can
understand it was found somewhere else, accidentally while digging the ground for house construction
or a water well.
Most archeological finds are done accidentally by locals, you can see how excited people
are.
This is definitely an antique statue, probably around a thousand years old.
This statue shows Shiva, in a specific form called Nataraja, and bronze statues of this
style mostly belong to the period of Imperial Chola dynasty who ruled about a 1000 years
ago.
Ok so you just saw a mesmerizing statue of Shiva buried underground and is being revealed
after centuries of burial.
But in a city called Nellore, an entire temple was buried and it has come out last week.
You can see all of them wearing masks because of Covid19.
This was an accidental discovery, they were sandmining, they were trying to take the sand
for commercial purposes from this area, and they accidentally found a huge temple completely
buried.
You can see these 2 guys, removing the sand, and you may think this was the ground level.
No, these guys are standing almost on top of the temple tower.
You can see how they are casually revealing a deity set up on the tower.
Where is the temple entrance?
It is buried in the sand.
Now they used the giant excavators and they uncovered this entrance.
The machine is going in and removing the sand from the original entrance of the temple.
Finally, you can see the ground level of the temple.
That's the entrance to the temple.
When we look at the close up of the ground level, you can see the temple is made of bricks
and you can see the plastered walls.
The walls are relatively untouched and have not undergone much damage.
And you can see there are more chambers inside as well, there are more walls inside.
Let us go near the entrance and take a peek at what's inside.
Brick walls and brick doorway.
Locals say this is a Shiva temple and they have found a lingam inside.
When we look at the close-up of the tower, you can see that it is also built with bricks
and has been plastered with lime mortar.
Important archeological finds have been made in Ayodhya, which is the Birthplace of Lord
Rama, and also the location of King's Baburs Mosque known as Babri Masjid.
But before we look into this, we are going to look at some fascinating ancient artifacts
revealed in a small village called Arasinakere.
What they found here is very strange.
Two giant monolithic bull statues, the bull, known as Nandhi is the mount of Lord Shiva.
And usually, you should just find one Bull, but surprisingly you see a pair of bulls.
The bigger one is about 15 ft in length and 12 ft in height, so this is gigantic and the
other one is just a little bit smaller.
This excavation was also not started by archeology department, the villagers found it, and then
they informed the authorities.
These bulls are unfinished.
How do I know this, right?
Because, look at the eyes, you don't see the eyeballs, the eyes are not finished.
It is a custom in India, to open the eyes at the very last, you finish sculpting everything,
and then you carve the eyeballs.
This practice is still followed by Hindu sculptors.
And look at the texture of the stone surface, plenty of tool marks and polishing has not
begun.
It would be a good guess to think that there are giant lingams buried nearby.
At least 2 of them.
Perhaps this was a manufacturing site for the sculptors, and they could have abandoned
it for some reason.
In India, everywhere you dig, you find ancient statues.
Now that all of us have cell phones with cameras, more things are coming to light.
You see what this is?
This is a 5 headed snake, a monolithic stone statue of Naga being excavated from dirt.
This was found recently , it happened just a few weeks ago.
I have shown you large Naga statues, commonly guarding a lingam.
The next one is Ayodhya, Most Indians know about this, but if you are watching this from
outside India, it is a very important site, because this is considered the birthplace
of Lord Rama, and it once had a huge temple complex.
The Muslim king Babur captured this site, demolished it and built a mosque on top, roughly
500 years ago.
This mosque was demolished by Hindu groups in 1992 because they wanted to rebuild Rama's
Temple.
And this was a huge lawsuit which got recently resolved, and the court has given the site
to build the Ram Temple.
Now, recent excavations show a lot of buried ancient artifacts in this site.
Many many pillars have been excavated, a 5 foot Lingam has been unearthed, many female
dancing figures have been foundd.
The main factor here is that many people do not believe that this site originally had
an ancient Hindu temple.
They believe that King Babur did not demolish any temple and built the mosque on a completely
fresh ground, and it is merely a folklore that it was the birthplace of Lord Rama.
Many people still believe that Hindus destroyed the mosque by falsely claiming that there
was once a temple here.
However, recent excavations clearly prove that a Hindu temple existed originally.
But archeologists had already found hundreds of stone artifacts which clearly establish
that there was a huge temple here.
For example, they found a giant Amalka.
What is an Amalka?
If you look at Hindu temples, there is a huge disc right below the kalash, this is called
the amalka.
They found a giant amalka on site, which clearly proves a temple existed.
They have found hundreds of artifacts ,all of them parts of temples, they found crocodile
faced water spout, this is called Makara Pranaalay, and actual portions of the temple tower itself
were excavated.
My problem is, the Government should release good quality videos and pictures of these
excavated artifacts, this is just really bad quality.
Now, I have shown how many ancient Hindu artifacts coming out of the land, but this is not limited
to land, they are also mysteriously coming out of water.
This lingam started showing itself just a few days ago.
It is an amazing sight to see.
See how it is covered in moss, but it has been beautifully carved.
Locals started to come in large numbers and started worshiping it, because they know that
this lingam is only visible very rarely.
The water level usually does not get this low to reveal the lingam, and the water immediately
started rising again and the lingam was submerged again in just a few hours.
Now this is in the very south of India, far away from Ayodhya, but this is also connected
to Lord Rama.
This city is called Rameswaram, meaning the 'Lord of Rama', and locals say all these ancient
lingams were actually built by Rama and his wife.
It is said that they worshiped these lingams.
And Rameswaram is not the only place where ancient lingams are submerged.
There are many places in India, where lingams lie submerged.
They only reveal themselves very rarely, when the water level goes to the extreme low level.
Only some people get lucky enough to see these lingams, and only very few videos exist, because
they go underwater within a few hours.
I hope this was of some value to you, but there is a mystery involved.
All these sites are linked somehow to Lord Shiva.
I have shown several artifacts underground and even underwater, but they are lingams,
or statues or temples related to Shiva.
Even the birthplace of Lord Rama has a 5 foot tall lingam.
Why?
Think about why Shiva lies buried everywhere?
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