Impossible Stone Technology of Chennakeshava Temple! 😱🤯

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AI GeneratedThis video provides a detailed guided tour of the Belur Halebidu Temple, highlighting its extraordinary stone carvings. The narrator emphasizes the temple's \"jewellery box\" quality, showcasing intricate 3D filigree work, depictions of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, and a vast array of deities and decorative figures carved from single pieces of stone.
So there is a Kapala Bhai Ravi. Kapala means skull.
There is a skull on the left hand. The skull is hollow.
There is a gap inside. Even if you put a stick into the ear,
it can be taken out from ear to mouth. It is free from the same stone.
This is a Khande Vaishwari. You can see, observe the rope.
How natural it appears. It is tied to the drum.
The fingers also inside the rope. This is all female.
There is a male statue, Murlidhara. Krishna flying the flute.
Look at the raincoat, the belt also around the waist.
Now, it looks like a bathrobe.
Can you see, look at the veil, mini skirt, the design also.
Our people copy from cinema style, but cinema people copy from here.
Temple, it is a pictorial type of education.
This is the brief story of Ramayana.
Rama, Lakshmana, Ahalya Devi.
Ahalya, wife of Gautama Muni.
Ahalya Devi is liberated by the Taj Jaga Sri Rama's feet.
Ravana is a kidnapping of Sita Devi in a Pushpa Kaviman.
The bird Jatayu attacking Ravana.
So Ravana beating the bird with a sword.
The bird Jatayu is falling down.
Lakshmana holding a Shurpanakha's hair
and cutting the nose with a sword.
Rama, Lakshmana, Hanuman.
When Hanuman meets Rama and Lakshmana for welcoming them,
the remaining monkeys are taking away the fruits,
flower, garland for welcoming them.
Some more monkeys are welcoming by beating drums.
This is a brief story of Ramayana,
on the other side is Mahabharata,
on the back side is the Quran also in our temple.
This is the swing pavilion.
Once you are here,
in the procession,
in a special occasion,
the procession idol will put on it.
And swinging like this.
Jhula, Jhula Matappa.
This is the Uyala Matappa.
Swing, the swing procession, the swing pavilion.
That is a model for this temple.
The small one, just like a prototype.
First built, then this temple is built.
There are two lovers doing love,
but the female face, it looks like a donkey face girl.
Face is like a donkey.
Brahma Deva is not created this kind of animal.
Sculpt are made like this.
There is a reason, at the age of 16,
even a donkey face girl looks like a beauty to a young man.
At the age of 16, even a donkey face girl looks like
a beauty to a young man.
The love is blind.
Narasimha Deva, one of the incarnation of Vishnu.
Narasimha can be seen in many parts of the temple
because Narasimha's family got for Vaisala dynasty.
Storia Prahalada. Iranya Tashuku burning his son with a fire,
biting with a snake, killing his son
with boots, trampling with elephants.
This is Storia Prahalada. There is a Gana Manjari. The
lips are open while singing. Their teeth also.
There is musicians playing the musical instrument
but music is very important for classical dancing.
They're singing a song with the alpha bell symbols
like this. This is the Natya Mohini.
Above her left shoulder, there is a lizard. There in front
of the lizard, there is a job to fly sitting
on the job to lizard trying to catch the fly. It is
a struggle for existence, food chain.
Filigree work, it looks like, you know, paper cutting
design. This kind of work can't be shown paper cutting.
3D effect, you know, they've done it.
Vishnu temple, you know, Dwarapalakas, Jaya,
Vijaya, the dog keepers of Vishnu. Hanuman,
Garuda, both are equally devotees of Vishnu.
Look at the jewellery design.
That's it also, no?
Belur Halabi Temple, so we call it internationally jewellery box.
And Vishnu Temple, Garuda, just like Garuda, Varaharupa Vishnu.
Open the stomach of the demon, Niranakshan,
and pulling out the demon intestine.
It looks like a chain.
This is Varaharupa Vishnu.
The entire thing is made of one piece.
Sing singleston from here to there.
There is a Rudraveena.
Veena on the left hand.
Before, there was spring on the right hand, it's broken by vandalism.
But Ravana used to play this kind of Rudraveena,
because Ravana is the devotee of Shiva.
Look at the necklace, the gap is there in between the necklace.
Look at the hair clip also, the hair band.
The ornaments are highly decorated.
This is Madhusudana, which is an old Kannada language.
Sve Madhusudana.
That is Madhava.
Look at the mirror shape.
There is a clamp also behind the mirror.
Clamp in the handle.
Now, it looks like an important belzing mirror.
She is adjusting her curly hairs to the mirror.
But they were also more fashionable.
Everything made of stone only.
There are no repercussions.
You can see the Vanarani.
She is collecting the flowers for worshipping God.
Now this is a Badda flower.
Before there was a basket on the left hand.
It is broken by vandalism.
There is a bird sitting just above the boom.
There are three birds.
One is mother.
Others are two or kids.
But mother bird open the wings protecting her kids.
Previously, ladies were also going for hunting.
There are two people wrestling.
King and queen are sitting, looking the wrestling match.
The rest are eliminated and ready to fight.
These are all decorative idols.
If leave this place empty, this place will not look good.
That's why they have done decorative idols
around the temple.
Up to here, we have seen only dancing posters.
And let us go towards only god and goddesses.
Paramatma, Jivatma.
Jeevatma, only human beings, dancing posture.
Paramatma, only God and Goddesses,
because God is there inside of us.
Shiva, Parvati, Narayana, Lakshmi, Narayana.
These are the baby Krishna.
Krishna, when he was a child,
laying in the banyan leaf, sucking the toes in the mouth.
This is called Vatapatra Shahi, the Krishna.
Half said Shiva, half said Vishnu.
You know the Nandi, the vehicle of Shiva.
You know Garuda, this is the vehicle of Vishnu.
I mean Hari, Hare, Eshwara.
Shiva is killing the Jalasandha Rakshasa,
then he is lifting him with a spear, Shiva Jalandharam.
This is Mashaana Kali. This is a form of Parvati.
This is a more damaged sculpture made like this.
The facial expression, the proudness.
Look at the corresponding edges
of the very straight line from bottom to top.
The pillar looks like a lotus flower. Lotus flower.
The different names of Vishnu.
You can see Vishnu came as Vamana, killing the Jalasandha Rakshasa.
Vamana is a baking for three feet of lime, the story of Mahabali.
Ravana, the lifting Kailasa Parvatha,
we get a heart pulling from Shiva.
The second Ravana, the top of the mountain,
Shiva Parvati sitting there.
Shiva Parvati, Nandi, Ganesha, Brahmadeva,
Hanuman, snake also, all living beings.
This is a part of Ramayana.
In our temple, there is a nut and a bolt.
Look at the washer also, nuts and bolts.
They can't turn it, it's simply made for decoration.
But this concept was existing in Ayyanaraya's back.
So there is a little balcony.
The drill work, the gap between the pillars.
Look at the windows, that is made for ventilation purpose.
At the top also temple, monkey stone building,
first floor, second floor.
This is a replacement.
In the renovation temple, there is no delicate work.
You know, how the difference between two stones.
This is original.
This is a replacement from ASI department.
They have done it.
Vasudevamurthi. Vasudeva is the name of Lord Vishnu.
Look at the bottom.
There are 644 elephants around the main temple, but each one is unique.
Elephants are symbol of strength. Lions are symbol of bravery.
Horses are symbol of speed. Lotus flower are symbol of beauty.
Strength, bravery, speed and beauty.
This is the Krimurthi Narayana.
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, all the weapons he is holding.
Sri Murti Narayana Vishnu, Daksha Prajapati, Daksha is Sati's father,
Mysore Chamundeshwari is killing demon Mysasura,
Brahmadeva is voided Brahma,
Varaharupa Vishnu is killing the demon Niranaksha,
select the Buddha, Varaharupa Vishnu.
