Mysteries Solved: Secrets of the Thanjavur (Tanjore)

Brihadeeswarar Temple Built By RajaRaja Chola

Bhagwan Shiv Shankars Tanjore Temple was built over 1000 years ago fully with Granite
stones, that too when there was no stone available in the nearby locations. It is huge a 216
feet hollow structure which has withstood all weak or violent disturbances of nature winds,
rainfalls, storms when the Great Tanjore Temple is built of interlocking stones
without any binding material. We call ourselves modern and technologically
advanced but even today No 200+ feet structure in this world is built without
binding materials, cements or blocks. Such highly developed, flawless and perfect
is the Vedic building technology used by Hindu King RajaRaja Chola and his Hindu
engineers that in comparison it portrays our present construction technology as
primitive and farce.

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1 The Tanjore (Thanjavur) City and Temple is not Built by Aliens But Hindus Who Respect
their Gods
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1.1 Peruvudaiyaar Kovil Solved Mysteries of Thanjavur (Tanjore) Shiv Temple

1.1.1 Some of the mysteries of the Thanjavur (Tanjore) big temple are:
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1.2 1. Underground passages in Thanjavur (Tanjore) 216 feet Temple
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1.3 2. Huge cap stone at the top of Thanjavur (Tanjore) Shiv Temple

1.3.1 2.1 Why was the Top of the Thanjavur temple Capped

1.3.2 2.2. How Hindu Architects of Tanjore Placed Stone at the Top
of Thanjavur Shiv Temple

1.3.3 (a) 80 Ton Stone Cap Placed on top of Brihadeeswarar Temple

1.3.4 The Massiveness of Structure and 80 Ton Stone Cap at Top of

Thanjavur Shiv Temple

1.3.5 Mammoth: The Size of the 80 Ton Stone Cap and Nandi Moortis at Top
of Shiv Temple

1.3.6 (b) Vedic Mantra Used to Place 80 Ton Stone on Top of Thanjavur
(Tanjore) Temple

1.3.7 You can hear Sound of Resonated by Sun Given in the Video below

1.3.8 Sages to Common Hindus Knew The Secret of Sound Vibration

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1.4 3. Painting in Thanjavur (Tanjore) Big temple
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1.5 4. Granite stones used for the Mandir construction
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1.6 5. Cutting and carving of Granite stones for Building Shiv Temple
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1.7 6. Secret passages in Thanjavur (Tanjore) Big temple
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1.8 Interesting Features of The Brihadeeshwara Temple of Tanjore (Thanjavur)
World Heritage
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1.9 Great Integration of Music, Vedic Sound and Hindu Architecture

1.9.1 The Only Tallest Hindu Temple Known to be at Least 1000 Years Old

1.9.2 Thanjavur (Tanjore) Temple Honors Vedic Music and Sacred Sound of
the Universe
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1.10 Surprise Me More:

The Tanjore (Thanjavur) City and Temple is not Built by

Aliens But Hindus Who Respect their Gods
The city is believed to have been named after an asur (demon) Rakshas Tanjan who was
annihilated by Bhagwan Vishnu. Locals say that the city gets its name from Than-seioor, which means a place surrounded by rivers and green paddy fields. Several hundreds of
years ago Tanjore was initially developed and maintained by Chola dynasty () with
rigorous hardwork and for selfless bhakti, love towards Bhagwan Shiv. That is the main reason that
Tanjore is lush green, lavishly spread with good water facilities and palm forests. Hindu

RajaRaja Chola was proponent of fresh environment and cared for nature, to let divine
opulence flow through Tanjore and other nearby cities developed by him and his heirs.
There are many places, structures and ancient establishments developed with Vedic
engineering that are considered mysterious as it is seen with the paradigm of vested
western mindset. Bhagwan Shiv Mandir, Thanjavur or famously corrupted by english as the
Tanjore big temple is one of the most mysterious dharmic structure around.
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Though the construction is not mystery for Hindus (native Indians), it is indeed mysterious
for westerners due to their myopic and biased assessment of Vedic structures, thats the
reason why they wrongly connote this great structure as mysterious and an alien
establishment. Whenever western scientists, archaeologists were unable to decipher divine
structures of Hindu temples; they conveniently blanketed it as alien technology to save their
faces from the embarrassment and logical explanation. The illicit representation of
Hindu structures by such concocted and primitive scientists divulge the cunning
ploy of denying existence of Vedic gods as the Supreme Beings and labeling them
as lords or common alien beings. While the same logic is not applied for humans
of mere 2000 year old jesus or illiterate looter mohammed who existed just 1400
years ago while Vedic structures showcased the divine technology of Hindus,
thousands of years ago when these anti-Vedic beings were not even in the wombs
!

Peruvudaiyaar Kovil Solved Mysteries of Thanjavur (Tanjore)

Shiv Temple

Some of the enslaved colonial bots and pseudo-scientists from India who are not aware of
Vedic teachings did multiple researches with western principles, only to re-tag it as unsolved
mysteries.
Some of the mysteries of the Thanjavur (Tanjore) big temple are:
1. Underground passages in Thanjavur (Tanjore) 216 feet Temple
2. Huge cap stone at the top of Thanjavur (Tanjore) Shiv Temple
3. Painting in Thanjavur (Tanjore) Big temple
4. Granite stones used for the Mandir construction
5. Cutting and carving of Granite stones for Building Shiv Temple
6. Secret passages in Thanjavur (Tanjore) Big temple
7. Shadow of Thanjavur (Tanjore) Shiv Temple
The construction of the worlds first known and only shallow Shiv temple built by interlocking
stones and not by binding them is still a great mystery to the people of world who are devoid
of knowledge based on Vedas and ancient Hindu texts. With the blessing of Shiv Shankar
Hindu King RajaRaja Chola.
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1. Underground passages in Thanjavur (Tanjore) 216 feet Temple

The Tanjore big temple contains more than 100 underground passages to various places.
The underground passages also contain some secret passage that leads to various places
like the Palace of RajaRaja Chola and also to other important places. The underground
passages lead to the other temples and also to various places in and around Tanjore. Most of
the underground passages were sealed and if the people choose the wrong passage then

there are possibilities that the path may also lead to the dangers. It is widely known that this
can also be a trap for the kingdom safety of RajaRaja Chola.
Underground Passages of Thanjavur (Tanjore): The underground passage is build for
Sages, Kings, Queens who can roam through the various temples using underground routes
conveniently. The routes were very useful to reach temples during auspicious days like
Deepawali (), Makar Sankranti ( ) , Maha Shivratri ( ) and other such pious
Hindu festivals. Few passages were interconnected to be used for free flow of fresh air running through
lush green vegetation filled with oxygen for healthy breathing of the occupants roaming
through the underground routes of the Thanjavur (Tanjore) temple.
There was separate elevated platform constructed for RajaRaja Chola so that he was
conveniently able to do abhishek of large Shiv Ling present in Garbhagriha.
Other passages were leading to doorways of tunnels which were sources of water
channelized from the fresh river water.
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2. Huge cap stone at the top of Thanjavur (Tanjore) Shiv Temple

The biggest mystery of all the other mysteries in Thanjavur (Tanjore) Shiv temple is the huge
cap stone in the top of the huge Mandir. The weight of the cap stone at the top of Thanjavur
(Tanjore) weighs astonishingly 80 tons. No man built shallow structure around the world has
such huge stone cap at the top of the constructed temple.
Why was the top of the Thanjavur temple capped ? and How did the Hindu builders of
Thanjavur (Tanjore) were successfully able to place the heavy cap stone at the top of the
Gopuram on 216 feet high temple ?.
These are frequently asked queries which globally baffles scientists, archaeologists and
common people.
2.1 Why was the Top of the Thanjavur temple Capped
The Garbhagriha were Shiv Lingam is placed emits huge amount of electromagnetic positive
energies. The 80 tons stone was kept as a repulsive force so as to make the energy revolve
around the temple perimeter and keep the place pious and divinely graceful. The flow of
energy move around and within the Vedic structure giving healthily calming, soothing and
mentally composing effect to the bhakts and yogis.

2.2. How Hindu Architects of Tanjore Placed Stone at the Top of Thanjavur Shiv
Temple
There are two explanations (a) Manually (b) Vedic Mantra
(a) 80 Ton Stone Cap Placed on top of Brihadeeswarar Temple
The Massiveness of Structure and 80 Ton Stone Cap at Top of Thanjavur Shiv
Temple
At the top of the Sri Vimana Thanjavur temple, near the neck of the Gopuram there are 8
Nandis seen very prominently even while standing from the ground. These Nandis are huge
and carved from single stone. A Nandi of the similar scale is seen on the southern Prahara.
One can judge the size of the Nandi and its relative weight.
On the front side of the Vimana that is facing the east direction one can see the sculptures
of abode of Bhagwan Shiv called as Mahameru. The whole of Sri Vimana is built using
granite rocks and the sculptures in them are covered by a thin layer of mortar to preserve
the granite sculptures inside.

It is widely known that there were no heavy machines, cranes or any high end equipments
used to lift the stone up and place it at the top of the temple. The only thing that can help
achieve, the almost impossible feat, were the fleet of elephants. A massive triangular
podium of half-pyramidal shaped structure was constructed that was erected adjacent yet to
the opposite side of the massive temple. The mammoth task was carried over by
intelligent Vedic architects while performing Yagna to take blessings of Bhagwan Shiv, under
guidance of Brahmans, Hindu Sages and RajaRaja Chola. The figure below represents the
construction site, explains how it was done. Massive straircase of rollers were constructed on
the base of to pull 80 tons stone by fleets of elephants and men. The platform was more
inclined towards ground and not so angular as seen in the representational image.
Mammoth: The Size of the 80 Ton Stone Cap and Nandi Moortis at Top of Shiv
Temple

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(b) Vedic Mantra Used to Place 80 Ton Stone on Top of Thanjavur (Tanjore) Temple
() is the Vedic sound and the creator of everything in this universe invisible atom to biggest
mountains. Sun itself recites (chanted as ) while giving light to the world. The meditation of OM
() by Sun God keeps it alive and helps it in positioning itself properly in the solar system. When chanting of
Vedic Mahamantra ( as ) can position sun and make it master of our solar system.
You can hear Sound of Resonated by Sun Given in the Video below
Sages to Common Hindus Knew The Secret of Sound Vibration

Then reciting Vedic Mantra could levitate 80 ton stone for placing it at top of Brihadeeswarar
Temple or Periya Kovil, an easy task for Vedic sages. There were many gupt mantras that
were recited by Hindu Sages to get impossible tasks done while penancing and
remembering Bhagwan Shiv. It might sound miracle for all of us so called modern but
materialistic beings; it was never a secret for ancient Hindus.

3. Painting in Thanjavur (Tanjore) Big temple

There are lots of high quality paintings in the Tanjore big temple that explain many things
about the kingdom of Chola dynasty and also the greatness of particularly, the RajaRaja
Chola. Some paintings also explain about the RajaRaja Cholas selfless bhakti towards
Bhagwan Shiv Shankar. There were also depiction of contemporaneous history in the
painting of Thanjavur (Tanjore) or Thanjai. Thanjavur has a unique place in the history of
Indian painting, it is so because the paintings are splendid, beautiful and looks very fresh as
if the paintings were made recently.
Painters across the world are awestruck and they are still trying hard to figure out how even
today these hundreds of years old Hindu paintings look so natural and novel. RajaRaja Chola
always respected Hindu Sages, Gurus and Sadhus one of the paintings reflect him giving
respect to his Guru.
Thanjavur Paintings Everlasting Beauty: The everlasting beauty of Thanjavur paintings
lies in the herbs. Hindu Sages used natural elements for designing Vedic symbols which
acted as gateways of communication. These symbols were purposely painted using solution
made up of natural elements like flower petals, colorful leaves, haldi (turmeric), treated
muds, crushed salts, neem, pressed herbs, etc. The lasting of such Vedic designs were
ensured using medicinal learnings of Ayurved. Hindu Sages were intelligent and they knew
that to establish divine connection with Gods, the continuous recitement of mantras should
be supported byyantras that have longer recency and permanency. The same method of
Hindu Sadhus were originally replicated by Hindu Painters, who used their ancient
knowledge to paint everlasting beautiful paintings.

4. Granite stones used for the Mandir construction

The granite stones are one of the strongest stones in the world. It is very difficult to carve
intricate designs on the granite stones without powerful blunt devices. Granite is also very
heavy so movement of huge stones from one place to another is also not possibly easy. More
than 130,000 tons of granite were used to build Rajarajeshwar Thanjavur temple. The heavy
stones weighing several tons were bought down from the place that was located 50 miles
away from the Tanjore temple.
Granite Stones Pulled By Elephants: Hindu Kings had huge resource of animals for
building temples and army forces. How strong was legacy of Hindu Kings can be seen from
the fact, Greek biographer stated that Nanda dynasty had a mighty military power of 80000
horse back troops, 200000 foot soldiers, 6000 battle elephants and about 8000 war horsedrawn vehicles. The reference of human and animal resource of Nanda dynasty was only for
battlefront. For constructing structures they had different pool of animal resources. Similarly,
RajaRaja Chola had allocated over 1000 elephants and over 5000 horses for the construction
of structures.

After constructing several temples, RajaRaja Chola and his Hindu engineers mastered the art
of building Mandirs from Granite stones.

5. Cutting and carving of Granite stones for Building Shiv Temple

The cutting and carving of the granite stone is very difficult, britishers after seeing Granite
block temples tried to replicate the feat but failed miserably. While mughals when saw such
temples tried ways to dismantle or reconvert Hindu temples into satanic tombs and
mosques true to the terrorism legacy they got from koran and dacoit mohammed. It was
patience, selfless bhakti and love towards mother earth that made it possible.
Hindu Kings were keen on protecting nature and never did any harm to the
environment when they build temples. Whenever range of trees were cut from the
forests for the construction of temples, an equal and in some cases double the number of
trees were planted. Even today it is not possible to carve intricate designs on the Granite
stones, as shown in the Thanjavur temples.

How Granite Stones were Cut, Carved and Customized: Series of holes were created
in the granite block. The holes can be deeper or surfacial based on the requirement. Then
wooden sticks were filled in those holes, water is poured on the holes. After a long period of
time the rocks would break. And in similar manner, customized Granite blocks were cut.

6. Secret passages in Thanjavur (Tanjore) Big temple

A dedicated secret passage was created to connect different secret places in hidden meshlike structure. It is decorated with distinct features depicting Hindu history of Bharat
(India). While roaming through secret passages, it is impossible to come back to the starting
point, as no one knows the route to reach the inter-places meshed to each other. That is the
reason, most of the underground and secret passages are closed for the public and
archaeologists.
What are Secret Passages of Thanjavur (Tanjore): Secret Passages are closed since
entrance to them is only possible when you recite right mantra to enter it. The in-roads
through the secret passages lead to places which RajaRaja Chola wanted only his close
confidante to know. Such places were holding keys to the treasure chest, rare scripts,
calligraphs and vaults whose confidentiality were to be maintained.

Shadow of Thanjavur (Tanjore) Gopuram of Shiv Temple not Falling on Ground

The huge cap of Tanjore big temple is constructed in such a way that the shadow of the
Tanjore big temple Gopuram will not fall on the ground at noon in any season. It will just fall
on itself.
Why Does the Shadow of Gopuram Does not Fall on the Ground: It is the only
structure in the world to have this peculiar feature. During morning or evening when the Sun
is out the shadow can be seen falling on the ground. It is only during noon that the shadow
of Gopuram will not fall on ground but on itself. The main reason is the basement of
structure which is big enough to absorb the shadow of the Gopuram on its base itself.

Interesting Features of The Brihadeeshwara Temple of Tanjore

(Thanjavur) World Heritage

A study in Oriental architecture or history is certainly incomplete without a mention of the

Tanjore Brihadeeshwara Temple or the Tanjore Periya Kovil (Big Temple). This imposing
structure was built by RajaRaja Cholan and his sister Kundavai, both ardent devotees of
Bhagwan Shiv. It was constructed by the King at the height of the Chola reign to signify his
bhakti, power and strength. Here are few interesting facts about this Chola temple of
Thanjavur:
a) The original name of the deity was Rajarajeshwar. It was the Marathas who gave it the
name Brihadeeshwara or the Great Ishwara.
b) The main temple is entirely built of granite. More than 130,000 tons of granite was used
to built it.
c) The only temple in the world wherein the shadow of its Gopuram does not a appear on the
ground at noon.
d) The statue of Nandi at the entrance of the temple is carved out of a single stone.
e) The main Vimanam, which is at about 200 feet is often called Dakshin Meru or Southern
Meru.
f) The inspiration to build the temple came to Raja Raja Cholan during his visit to Sri Lanka
seeing Vedic structures of Hindu kings and was a result of a divine dream he had.
g) The temple has a portrait of Raja Raja Cholan paying obeisance to Bhagwan Natraj. This is
undoubtedly, the first ever instance of a royal portrait.
h) Inscriptions in the temple point towards Kunjara Mallan Raja Raja Perunthachan as the
chief architect of the temple. His successors survive to this day and practice the art of Vastu
or Vastu Shastra.

i) Portraying dance is the reflection of divine emotions of Bhakts (devotees) showing their
joyful feelings which they sense when they see the God himself. Depictions of nartakis or
dancers showing eighty one of hundred and eight karanas (108 synchronised movements of
hands and feet) in Bharat Natyam are carved here. These selective karanas represented
here are a part of karanas mentioned in the Natya Shastra of Rishi Bharat. There is also
evidence that the temple was a platform for trained dancers to showcase their devotional
talent. These depictions are first of their kind.
j) The inscriptions also mention the different kinds of jewels used in the period. Each of these
jewels are mentioned in detail. A total of twenty three different types of pearls, eleven
varieties of diamonds and rubies are mentioned in these inscriptions.
k) The chanting of in the Grabhagriha exponentially expands the positive energies in the temple.
What astounds historians is that there was not a single granite quarry in about 100 km
radius of the temple. This means that transporting these stones would have been a
herculean task. But Raja Raja Cholan insisted on the use of these stones. All of these
features make this Chola temple of Tanjore, a magnum opus of the opulent Chola kingdom.

Great Integration of Music, Vedic Sound and Hindu Architecture

The Only Tallest Hindu Temple Known to be at Least 1000 Years Old
The temple was built within schedule, completed in record time of 7 years, amounting to
moving and placing almost 50 tons of rock each and every day, not to forget carving and
aligning it. When the Brihadeeswara temple was completed in 1003 CE, it was the tallest
temple in India by an order of magnitude of 10. A thousand years later, standing at 216 feet,
it is still the tallest non-bound temple in India and world. Atop the soaring viman (famously
known due to its structure as explained in Vymanika Shastra) is a capstone that weighs 80
tons. The best thing in the Chola temples is that the tower lies over the sanctums has more
elevation as compared to the towers set over the gopuram (tower) that could be found at
the entrance. After dusk, when the temple is been illuminated, its topmost light over the
dome seems not less than another planet glowing and coming closer to the earth. This is
also one of the attraction of the tallest Shiv Temple that draw thousands of people to it.

Thanjavur (Tanjore) Temple Honors Vedic Music and Sacred Sound of the Universe
Sree Ganesh idol is worshiped first before praying other Gods. At the entrance of sanctum
sanctorum, one can see the two idols of Shivputra Ganesh in the corridor. On taping the two,
you will feel the sound traveling through stone in one idol and through metal on the other.
The main hall of the temple was used by the devotee dancers and musicians performing
bhajans to praise Bhagwan Shiv. There are some musical pillars producing different sounds
when tapped. The entire Vedic structure was built in sync with sacred sounds, vibrations,
geometry and mantra. It is great integration of Vedic elements collated into one massive
building.