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Paintings of the
brahadeshwara ,temple T.N

Believe it or not, all these were made centuries ago using natural ingredients like flower petal extracts, turmeric powder, neem extracts and other natural colouring agents. They still look visible and bright enough to get admired
The entire temple was built using granite stones. The mystery doesnt lie in this but in close neighbourhood as far as archaeological evidences suggest there were no traces of granite sources. It is said all these were brought miles afar just using the only way of carriers-!!!
The elephants!!! Bringing every bit of raw material from a far place continuously till the end is a big thing in those days...
Cutting and carving of granite stones

In pic,u can see the granite stones are cut in these modern days. Even this looks hard and robust to make it get broken.A fact says it takes minimum of one hour & gallons and gallons of water to break these stones(even these days)Continue.
Imagine the period when this temple was built, it would have needed extreme efforts to get them broken!!!!How did the Cholas make it happen in their life time?!?!

#UnsolvedMystery
Huge capstone of the temple

And the biggest mystery of all in it is this. The capstone has a weight of 80 tons. Considering the period when it was built, it is probably impossible to lift such a huge stone and place it high in a height of 216 feet. Continue.....
The only medium of strong carriers were elephants. It seems completely mysterious to think how they made it happen just with elephants...

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