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SPECIAL EDITION: Proveen Mohan, The Forgotten Temples of India

Earth Ancients

CHAPTER

The History of Temples

When you walk into an ancient Hindu temple, what you're basically going to do is you're going to see a god who was sitting in an aircraft. And this is why temples have so many carvings, which I mean, what is the purpose of putting a telescope in a temple? It doesn't make any sense. We have sundials carved in temples. Why? I mean, if temple is just a religious place, why do you have these scientific gadgets or carvings put inside these temples? So you're saying that those carvings were references to learning handed down by these gods or these advanced humans or humanoids? Yes.

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