Stone Bell Hole Drilling

A 1,500-pound stone, a hammer, long chisel and two master carvers. Discover how the silpis working at Iraivan Temple drill a hole through solid rock to create a socket for a massive stone chain that will be installed to last more than a thousand years.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• iraivan
• temple
• stone
• granite
• carving
• architecture
• construction
• god
• siva
• shiva
• hindu
• hinduism

[ThePolysyllabist]

@Jeffemano Lol, why? Really? So that it would be exactly like the cake my Grandmother made for me when I was younger. Nostalgia, in this case, carries value and I find it hard to belief you would be unfamiliar with the concept or hard pressed to find a place in your life where it applied. And even if you can't, that you're supposedly dumbfounded as to why someone else might be gripped by it is ludicrous in the extreme.

Give up the 'logical' act. Your original post was ridiculous. Own up to it.

[Jeffemano]

@ThePolysyllabist - no...why waste the butter? lol. Give it up.

[ThePolysyllabist]

@Jeffemano You are right, both of those methods are available to you. They offer different challenges and different rewards. Why is it so hard to believe that the value priorities of another might differ sufficiently to result in a methodology preference other than yours?

If I was baking a poppy seed cake and chose to forgo a Teflon coated option for an old stainless steel cake mold my late grandmother used to bake me cakes in when I was a child, would you boggle at my decision as well?

[Jeffemano]

@ThePolysyllabist - 3 gen. Master Carpenter...obviously the sarcasm of my 1st reply is totally beyond you so let me spell it out for you. The methods of creating are exactly the same with the exception of modern technologies influence by introducing what...power tools...why...time is money. Sure I can construct a house using only my Japanese pull saw, wooden shivs, chisles to carve locking joints, and then sit back after 5 years to appreciate the structure or do it in 4 months with power tools.

[ThePolysyllabist]

@Jeffemano Mind dumbing, yeah Freudian slip there. Gee, what was I really thinking I wonder?

Look, I'll spell it out for you. The priority here here was not solely to create a stone bell, but rather was in facing the same challenges preceding temple builders faced. It could very well have been about the experience. A bell carved by hand and one by machine are not the same. Just like baseball hit by Willie Mays is not the same as one hit by me.

The process and the experience matter.

[Jeffemano]

@ThePolysyllabist - It's "mind numbing"...you're welcome...No need to forgive. Ignorance is having the tools and not using them. Pride is a craftsmans ability to perservere using archaic methods. " A person's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives." -Maya Angelou- I have been known to boggle the minds of the greatest of thinkers. You are no surprise.

[ThePolysyllabist]

@Jeffemano I hope you're twelve. I can forgive your mind dumbing ignorance if you're younger than twelve.

[Jeffemano]

@ThePolysyllabist - You're right...staying away from their family goat is top priority. So to save the goat they voluntarily lack the technology to expidite labor. Thanks for clearing that up.

[ThePolysyllabist]

@Jeffemano Perhaps completing the job faster is not the primary priority. Why might that be?

[Jeffemano]

A pneumatic drill could have done that in 30min...give-or-take. They use every other peice of modern equipment except the one that makes the job get completed faster...how are we losing this war?