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Saturday, March 21, 2015

The Thousand pillar Temple of Warngal, Andhra Pradesh


This is one Temple that I want to see. But, do not know when.
The Thousand Pillar Temple was built by the kakatiyas. It stands out to be a masterpiece and built  by the ancient kakathiya vishwakarma sthapathis. King Rudra Deva in 1163 AD had built it and is a specimen of the Kakatiyan style of architecture of the 12th century.
It was destroyed by the Tughlaq dynasty during their invasion of South India. There are one thousand pillars in the building and the temple, but no pillar obstructs a person in any point of the temple to see the god in the other temple.

Currently, the  engineers have taken out all the pillars from the building. After they lifted all the pillars they encountered a huge mass of sand. It took nearly two weeks for them to take away all the sand. It was wet sand, because of a pipe connection from the nearby water from Bhadrakali Cheruvu.