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Phot.India.Krishna.Butter.Ball.01.040611.0029.jpg
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Mamallapuram, located on the Coromandel Coast in the south of the Bay of Bengal at about 58 km driving distance southwest of Chennai, formerly Madras.
📌....On an eminence at the entrance to the site of “Mahabalipuram” sits a huge granite boulder called
"Krishna's Butter Ball”,
the boulder is approximately over 6 m high, over 5 m wide & weighs over 250 tons.
📍...According to legend, this ball of “Butter” would have been carelessly dropped by Krishna, then a greedy baby who pilfered the butter kept by his mother.
The butter bolder has held there for centuries in an incredible balance, seeming to defy the laws of Earth's gravity.
It touches with its bolder base approximately 1.2 m on a slope, & is said to have been remembered at the same place for more than 1200 years.
In 1908, then-governor of the city Arthur Havelock made an attempt to use seven elephants to move the boulder from its position due to safety concerns, but with no success.
It is said that Pallava king Narasimhavarman too made a failed attempt to move the boulder. The original name, Vaan Irai Kal, according to the Atlas Obscura, translates from Tamil as "Stone of Sky God". According to Hindu mythology, lord Krishna often stole butter from his mother's butter handi; therefore this may have led to the namesake of the boulder.
Mamallapuram, Seven Pagodas or Mahabalipuram, is a town in Kancheepuram district, an ancient historic town & a bustling seaport in the 1st millennium CE, now a beachside tourism centre with a group of Tamil monuments declared as UNESCO world heritage site, it is one of the most visited towns in South India.
In 1908, then-governor of the city Arthur Havelock made an attempt to use seven elephants to move the boulder from its position due to safety concerns, but with no success.
It is said that Pallava king Narasimhavarman too made a failed attempt to move the boulder. The original name, Vaan Irai Kal, according to the Atlas Obscura, translates from Tamil as "Stone of Sky God". According to Hindu mythology, lord Krishna often stole butter from his mother's butter handi; therefore this may have led to the namesake of the boulder.
Mamallapuram, Seven Pagodas or Mahabalipuram, is a town in Kancheepuram district, an ancient historic town & a bustling seaport in the 1st millennium CE, now a beachside tourism centre with a group of Tamil monuments declared as UNESCO world heritage site, it is one of the most visited towns in South India.
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Phot.India.Krishna.Butter.Ball.01.040611.0029.jpg
India, Kerala or Kēraḷam, Mamallapuram, located on the Coromandel Coast in the south of the Bay of Bengal at about 58 km driving distance southwest of Chennai, formerly Madras.
📌....On an eminence at the entrance to the site of “Mahabalipuram” sits a huge granite boulder called
"Krishna's Butter Ball”,
the boulder is approximately over 6 m high, over 5 m wide & weighs over 250 tons.
📍...According to legend, this ball of “Butter” would have been carelessly dropped by Krishna, then a greedy baby who pilfered the butter kept by his mother.
The butter bolder has held there for centuries in an incredible balance, seeming to defy the laws of Earth's gravity.
It touches with its bolder base approximately 1.2 m on a slope, & is said to have been remembered at the same place for more than 1200 years.
In 1908, then-governor of the city Arthur Havelock made an attempt to use seven elephants to move the boulder from its position due to safety concerns, but with no success.
It is said that Pallava king Narasimhavarman too made a failed attempt to move the boulder. The original name, Vaan Irai Kal, according to the Atlas Obscura, translates from Tamil as "Stone of Sky God". According to Hindu mythology, lord Krishna often stole butter from his mother's butter handi; therefore this may have led to the namesake of the boulder.
Mamallapuram, Seven Pagodas or Mahabalipuram, is a town in Kancheepuram district, an ancient historic town & a bustling seaport in the 1st millennium CE, now a beachside tourism centre with a group of Tamil monuments declared as UNESCO world heritage site, it is one of the most visited towns in South India.
In 1908, then-governor of the city Arthur Havelock made an attempt to use seven elephants to move the boulder from its position due to safety concerns, but with no success.
It is said that Pallava king Narasimhavarman too made a failed attempt to move the boulder. The original name, Vaan Irai Kal, according to the Atlas Obscura, translates from Tamil as "Stone of Sky God". According to Hindu mythology, lord Krishna often stole butter from his mother's butter handi; therefore this may have led to the namesake of the boulder.
Mamallapuram, Seven Pagodas or Mahabalipuram, is a town in Kancheepuram district, an ancient historic town & a bustling seaport in the 1st millennium CE, now a beachside tourism centre with a group of Tamil monuments declared as UNESCO world heritage site, it is one of the most visited towns in South India.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments