The Konark Sun Temple is a 13th C.E. Sun Temple build in Konark, about 35 Kilometers to the North-East of the City of Puri, in the district of Puri, along the coastline of Odisha, India. The word Konark is derived from the Sanskrit word --Kona -- meaning Corner or Triangle and -- Arka -- meaning The Sun. The temple was build by Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern-Ganga dynasty of the ancient state of Kalinga of India, around 1250 A.D. The Temple was build in honour of the Hindu Sun God (Surya) and what survives of the Temple-complex is a100 feet-high chariot with massive wheels and horses all carved out from stones. The Konark Temple reflects Indian craftsmanship and iconography in mammoth scale and has over twenty-four detailed stone-carved wheels (each with a diameter of 9 feet, 9 inches and 8 spokes) and being pulled by set of seven horses. The architecture of the Temple and that of the wheels in particular is symbolic, with 12 pair of wheels corresponding to 12 months of the Hindu calendar and each moth is paired to two cycles (Shukla and Krishna). The original temple used to have a sanctum sanctorum (--Vimana-- in Sanskrit) of 229 feet, which feel in in 1837. When the Temple is viewed at dawn during sunrise, it appears the chariot-shaped Temple arises from the Depth of the Blue Ocean, carrying the Sun. [Info and Image Credit: Konark_Sun_Temple , Wikipedia] [Image : A Stone Wheel Engraved in the Walls of the Konark Sun Temple] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property)] [Source Image URL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stone_wheel_engraved_in_the_13th_century_built_Konark_Sun_Temple_in_Orissa,_India.jpg ]
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