People want to compare Lakshmi Narsimha Swamy Temple, Yadadri with Kashi Vishwanath Corridor.
It is a futile & baseless effort.
The old pictures of both & history for past 5 centuries would tell people why I’m saying so.
It is a futile & baseless effort.
The old pictures of both & history for past 5 centuries would tell people why I’m saying so.
It is also important to understand Mandir Architecture of different parts of north too has many variants, & to compare it with the style we know & are aware of is injustice to grandness of subject.
Hindus didn’t built only for grandeur but it was more about science, humility of spaces.
That’s the reason why although to many the Roman & Greek Architecture would look better but still smallest of Shikhar in Hampi has lot to offer as architecture brilliance.
That’s the reason why although to many the Roman & Greek Architecture would look better but still smallest of Shikhar in Hampi has lot to offer as architecture brilliance.
It was the fractal concept, something that no Civilisation was able to execute to the brilliance with which we did.
Today we make amazing parametric forms & facades using computation but back then it was the manual calculations & precision.
Today we make amazing parametric forms & facades using computation but back then it was the manual calculations & precision.
Mathematics of complexity was no less than devotion to our ancestors.
It was the quest of seeing geometry as sacred that our architecture led to enormous mathematical developments.
It was the quest of seeing geometry as sacred that our architecture led to enormous mathematical developments.
Something that Europe couldn’t, for they got carried as forever to see “grandness” as measure of “best”.
No one could have thought that even Surya on seven horse represented white light, nor would have one imagined that complex maths would lie in poems of Lilavati.
No one could have thought that even Surya on seven horse represented white light, nor would have one imagined that complex maths would lie in poems of Lilavati.
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