Chittorgarh Fort

Chittorgarh Fort is situated on a hilltop near Chittorgarh town, in the state of Rajsthan, India. It is just 112 km away from Udaipur and 182 km from Ajmer city. It is the biggest fort in India as well as Asia. The fort was constructed by the Mauryans in the 7th century. It is believed that the main construction was built by Bhima of Pancha pandavas.

The Chitorgarh fort standing on 180 meters hill and also covers 700 acres area. It is also called as ‘water fort’ because the fort having 84 water bodies. The main gates of the fort are Padal pol, Bhajron Pol, Hanuman pol and Ram Pol. Chittor town is a city where visitors can get each and every facilities. There are also many visiting places situated in Rajasthan state. It includes Hawa Mahal, Ajmer fort, Jantar-mantar etc. Visitors can reach easily at these places from Chittorgarh fort.

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The Chittorgarh Town view from Fort

Inside the Chittorgarh Fort

Enterance Gate at Chittorgarh fort

Chittorgarh Fort, Rajsthan

Chittorgarh fort wallpaper

Chittorgarh Fort view

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Chittorgarh Fort Photo

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The scene outside the Chittorgarh Fort

Pancha Rathas - Marks of Pancha Pandvas

Pancha Rathas is located at Mamallapuram, a small village in south side of Chennai city, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It means five chariots, named individually after Draupadi and the Pandava brothers. These 7th century shrines were carved during the reign of King Mamalla (Narasimahavarman I, after whom the site is named). Each temple is a monolith, carved, whole from an outcropping of rock. The temples are unfinished, and so were never consecrated or used for worship, although they have nothing to do with temple carts or the Mahabharata. The categorizations of the buildings are unfortunate. It would be better to call them vimanas and just number them 1 through 5, but the popular names have stuck.

Architecture of Pancharatha
It is here that one sees architecture in action and every crucial stage of its evolutionary process. A closer look at the shrines will enable you to see how the artist carved each shrine out of the living rock, beginning from the top and working downwards. Chisel marking and unfurnished parts of the shrine add much to our admiration of the task of cutting the hard granite rock, from top to bottom, chip by chip, to fashion an entire temple. The square shrine has a simple peaked roof, simple to a thatched hut, with decorated corners. This roof design was never used again in southern Indian architecture but was transmuted into a miniature hut motif and placed at every horizontal level of subsequent rathas, and later temples, throughout the region.

The site gives the delightful impression of a city of life-size model buildings, whose variety of roofs, floor plans and columniation defines a veritable source book of south Indian temple forms. The architectural elements seen here will appear repeatedly, and with remarkable little variation, over the next 1000 years of temple building in south India.

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Yudhishtir's Ratha Photo

Visitors at Panch Ratha, Mamallapuram

Pancha Rathas Pictures

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Pancha Ratha at Mamallapuram

Pancha Ratha Photo

Pancha Pandava's Ratha

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Draupadi's Ratha

Bhima's Ratha Photo

A beatiful seen of Pancha Ratha

Iskcon Temple, Delhi

Iskcon temple is situated at Hari Krishna Hill, Sant nagar, in the east of Kailash area, New Delhi. The temple is dedicated to Hindu God Krishna. It is built by the followers of God Krishna in 1998. It is a fine example of architecture and one of the most lavish and grand temples of the city. Currently temple has air-conditioned hall that can cover 1500 people at one time. Every Sunday afternoon, there are kirtan and bhajan programme are performed. Thousand of devotees came to this temple to celebrate Janmashtami festival on Janmashtami (Birthday of God Krishna). The decoration of the temple on Janmashtami festival is very good. The main attraction of the temple is the Robot, who enacts and preaches the Gita.

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Rath Yatra at Iskcon temple, Delhi

Radha-Krishna statue at Iskcon temple

Visitors at Iskcon temple

View of Iskcon temple

Night view of Iskcon temple

Lord Krishna With Radha In The ISKCON Temple

Iskcon temple, delhi

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Iskcon temple Photo

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Iskcon Temple

Hare Rama , Hare Krishna

Devotees taking darshan at Iskcon temple

Devotees doing Hare rama Hare Krishna

Karla caves - Buddhist Caves

The Buddhist caves at Karla (Maharashtra) is one of the finest examples of ancient rock-cut caves India. The cave was built by Buddhist monks in 3rd – 2nd century BC. The magnificent hall that adorns the main caves reflects the high degree of architectural skills of the artisans who carved an embellished the caves on such a difficult terrain.

Location of Karla caves
Karla caves are located between the important cities of Mumbai and Pune. These can be easily accessed from both the cities. The actual Karla caves are located north of the small town of Karla and can be reached after a steep climb of around 20 minutes. Visitors can also take buses and taxis from Mumbai and Pune to reach Karla caves. The important hill stations of Lonavala and Khandala are also located closed to these caves. Lonavala is just 11 km west of Karla town, while Khandala is 16 km from here. Buses plying between Mumbai and pune generally halt in Karla.

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Visitors visiting the Carla caves

Karla caves, pune, Maharashtra

Karla caves Photo

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Karla Caves

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Design on the wall of Karla caves

Carla caves, Pune

Carla caves view

Carla caves Picture

Sarnath - Place of Buddhist Sangha

Sarnath is situated at 13 km away from Varanasi city in the state of Uttar Pradesh. It is a deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma (Religion). Actually this is a place where the Buddhist Sangha was founded. It is also known as “Mrigadava” or “Rishipattana” or Isipatana. “Mrigadava” means “deer park”.

Information of Sarnath
Buddhism flourished in Sarnath in part because of kings and wealthy merchants based in Varanasi. By the third century, Sarnath had become an important center for the arts. These reached its zenith during the Gupta period (4th to 6th centuries). In the 7th century, by the time Xuan Zang came visiting from China, he found 30 monasteries and 3000 monks living at Sarnath. Sarnath became a major centre of the sammatiya school of Buddhism, one of the Nikaya or Hinayana schools. However, the presence of images of Heruka and Tara indicate that Vajrayana Buddhism is also practice here. At the end of the 12th century, Turkish Muslims sacked Sarnath. The site was subsequent plundered for building materials.

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Sarnath wallpaper

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Monks at Sarnath

Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath

A beautiful Temple of the Tibetan community in Sarnath

A beautiful seen of Sarnath

Statue of Lord Buddha at Sarnath