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SPECIAL EDITION: Proveen Mohan, The Forgotten Temples of India

Earth Ancients

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The Importance of a Temple Tower

The word Vamanas actually does mean an aircraft. That is the primary meaning of that word. When you enter a temple in India, what you're going inside is actually a stone model of an aircraft with a god sitting in the center. So they consciously created a temple in that design? Is that what you're suggesting? Yes.

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