Best Structures in India 17JULY 17.

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Best Structures in India
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Description

• orthwestern region of the Indian subcontinent,
  consisting of what is now mainly modern-day
  Pakistan and northwest India. Flourishing around
  the Indus River basin, the civilization primarily
  centred along the Indus and the Punjab region,
  extending into the Ghaggar-Hakra River valley and
  the Ganges-Yamuna Doab. Geographically, the
  civilization was spread over an area of some
  1,260,000 square km, making it the largest
  ancient civilization in the world.
• The Indus Valley is one of the world's earliest
  urban civilizations, along with its
  contemporaries, Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. At
  its peak, the Indus Civilization may have had a
  population of well over five million. Inhabitants
  of the ancient Indus river valley developed new
  techniques in metallurgy and handicraft (carneol
  products, seal carving) and produced copper,
  bronze, lead, and tin. The civilization is noted
  for its cities built of brick, roadside drainage
  system, and multistoried houses. The baths and
  toilets system the cities had is acknowledgedby
  whom? as one of the most advanced in the ancient
  world. The grid layout planning of the cities
  with roads at exact right angles is a modern
  system that was implemented in the cities of this
  particular civilization. The urban agglomeration
  and production scale of this particular
  civilization was unsurpassed at the time and for
  many future centuries.

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• Susan Lewandowski states that the underlying
  principle in a Hindu temple is built around the
  belief that all things are one, everything is
  connected. The pilgrim is welcomed through
  mathematically structured spaces, a network of
  art, pillars with carvings and statues that
  display and celebrate the four important and
  necessary principles of human life - the pursuit
  of artha (prosperity, wealth), the pursuit
  of kama (desire), the pursuit of dharama (virtues,
  ethical life) and the pursuit ofmoksha (release,
  self-knowledge
• Hindu temple sites cover a wide range. The most
  common sites are those near water bodies,
  embedded in nature, such as the above at Badami,
  Karnataka.
• At the center of the temple, typically below and
  sometimes above or next to the deity, is mere
  hollow space with no decoration, symbolically
  representing Purusa, the Supreme Principle, the
  sacred Universal, one without form, which is
  present everywhere, connects everything, and is
  the essence of everyone. A Hindu temple is meant
  to encourage reflection, facilitate purification
  of ones mind, and trigger the process of inner
  realization within the devoteeThe specific
  process is left to the devotees school of
  belief. The primary deity of different Hindu
  temples varies to reflect this spiritual
  spectrum.

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• The appropriate site for a Mandir, suggest
  ancient Sanskrit texts, is near water and
  gardens, where lotus and flowers bloom, where
  swans, ducks and other birds are heard, where
  animals rest without fear of injury or harm These
  harmonious places were recommended in these texts
  with the explanation that such are the places
  where gods play, and thus the best site for Hindu
  temples
• While major Hindu Mandirs are recommended at
  sangams (confluence of rivers), river banks,
  lakes and seashore, Brhat Samhita and Puranas sugg
  est temples may also be built where a natural
  source of water is not present. Here too, they
  recommend that a pond be built preferably in
  front or to the left of the temple with water
  gardens. If water is neither present naturally
  nor by design, water is symbolically present at
  the consecration of temple or the deity. Temples
  may also be built, suggests Visnudharmottara in
  Part III of Chapter 93 inside caves and carved
  stones, on hill tops affording peaceful views,
  mountain slopes overlooking beautiful valleys,
  inside forests and hermitages, next to gardens,
  or at the head of a town street.

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