HISTORY OF SUN TEMPLE AT KONARK,ODISHA.

LEGEND.
The legend says that King Narasimha Deva-I of the Ganga Dynasty had ordered the temple to be built as a royal proclamation of the political supremacy of his dynasty. A workforce of 12 hundred artisans and architects invested their creative talent, energy and artistic commitment for an exhausting period of 12 years. The king had already spent an amount equivalent to the state's revenue receipts of 12 years. However, the completion of the construction was nowhere in sight. Then the king issued a final command that the work be completed by a stipulated date. The team of architects headed by Bisu Maharana was at their wit's end. It was then that Dharmapada, the 12 year old son of the chief architect Bisu Maharana, arrived there as a visiting onlooker. He became aware of the anxiety looming large among the architects. Although he did not have any practical experience of temple construction, he was thorough in his study of the theories of temple architecture. He offered to solve the confounding problem of fixing the last copping stone at the top of the temple. He surprised everyone by doing that himself. But soon after this achievement the dead body of this adolescent prodigy was found on the sea beach at the foot of the temple. Legend says that Dharmapada laid down his life to save his community.
The temple was dedicated to the Sun-God(Arka) popularly called Biranchi-Narayan, and the tract in which it is situated was known as Arka-Kshetra as well as padma-kshetra. According to mythology, Samba, son of Lord Krishna, was smitten with leprosy due to the curse of Lord Krishna. Samba for twelve years underwent severe penance at Mitravana, near the confluence of Chandrabhaga river with the sea at Konark, and ultimately succeeded in pleasing the god Surya, the healer of all skin diseases, and was cured of his illness. In gratitude, he decided to erect a temple in the honour of Surya. The day following his cure, while Samba was bathing in the Chandrabhaga, he discovered an image of the god, which had been fashioned out of Surya's body by Viswakarma. Samba installed this image in a temple he built in Mitravana, where he propitiated the god. Since then throughout the ages this place has been regarded as sacred.

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[lotiq]

LOL, muslim fanatic's mindset -

1.Sex is bad

2.Killing innocent kafirs is good

[chariotsofiresn]

first clean up ur house...a religion which doesnt condone the rape of a 6 year old girl by a old man just because he claimed he knew some shit ..is pure evil..

[MRSMlLETIME]

@taregass Food for thought did you know Hitler was gonna take over all of Israel what we call the Middle East but was PAID OFF by several Wealthy families of Saudi Arabia. If that DID happen Hiltlers forces would have held the entire Middle East until his armies would be eventually defeated since many german officers had no spine on the battlefield. Where as CIA special forces might as well call them torture MONSTERS would have took command of the bases Hitler created in the Middle east.

[MrDhurandhar]

I went to Konark and found the stone architecture fantasic for its fine craftmenship .The statues seem to be hanging from temple top against the backdrop of sky .The cukture of those times seems to be as modern as it was then

[goombatroopa1]

well people back then mustve been very smart in building things,just look at this temple it very old and yet its still standing,pretty amazing if you think about

[akhilbajaj81]

@worldd09 because it is the only religion which many years before your stupid naive Abrahimic religions came to existence and believed in Earth as center of Universe, we believed sun is center on only solar system (not even universe ..) well I rather believe in a scientific religion where we believ in pulsating theory of universe and not like 7 days God built universe ...naive stupid nomads built religions on 3 men's dream and morons believed in it .. no thanks

[MrIndoCanadian]

@worldd09 How to people believe in Islam and Christianity where they belive in stupid heaven and hell and stupid invisible gods.

[taregass]

@lotiq Sounds pretty christian and JEWISH to me... they say the same thing... and do the same thing 1000 times worst than muslims fanatics..

911 killed 3000 people.... USA and ISRAEL has killed over 100 thousand and you stil havent even blinked an eye..

So go fuck yourself jewlover ..

[Saraswathiputra]

Hinduism is the most scientific religion of the world.Selective people only allowed to enjoy that divinity.

[kirannkk5]

hindus invented 0 to the world if there is no 0 no computers and nothing here remember

hinduism teach how to lead life in a respectable manner as a hindu I am proud to say these words

[worldd09]

How people believe in Hinduism which does not make any sense in our modern world. How do they explain and support all this non sense. Among the entire world's religions this has to be the least that a human mind can accept.