Built 1000 Years Ago Without Modern Technology!

This temple has got a bunch of specialties. The first specialty is the height of this tower.

It's called vimana. It's almost 66 meter high. You can compare it with the person

standing underneath to understand the real scale. Another specialty is that it is built

using 130,000 tons of granite. Concrete is not used to stitch these stones together.

Instead, they have used a special locking mechanism to lock these stones together

to build it. Another amazing fact is that the round-shaped structure that sits on top

of this tower, it weighs almost 80 tons. Thousand years back, there were no cranes

or mechanical support to do that. Granite was not available at the Tanjavur,