Akshardham Temple,Delhi

Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple:s name was included in the Guinness Book of World Records in the year 2005 for being the world s largest Hindu temple complex.  It is one the most biggest and beautiful temples of the world.  The amazing lemple situated in Delhi.  India,  is built with a combination of marb stone,  sand stone and wood.  Find out more interesting thing things about this temple in the story.

The temple is spread over ground covering 83,342 sq feet.  It is 356 feet long,  316 feet wide and 141 feet high.  The Akshardham temple is buill ln such way so that it lasls for ar 1,000 ycars.

The ornate external wall

In the last 800 years,  this is the only and largest intricately carved wall in India with dimensions 611 x 31 il comprises 200 sculpturcd stonc figurcs of India s rishis,  sadhus,  devotees,  acharyas and divine incarnations.

Thiis temple consists of 231 ornately carved pillars,  9 ornate domcs,  Gajcndra Pith and 20,000 statues of India;s divine figures

The Gajendra Pith weighs 3,000 tons,  has 148 full-sized elephants,  42 birds and animals,  125 human sculptures and decorative stone backdrops ol trees,  creepers and royal palaces This is Parikrama made of red stones from Rajasthan,  consisting 1,152 pillars and 145 windows.  It surrounds the temple like a beautiful garland.

There arc 108 gaumukh herc from which you can hear soothing sound of water While moving in the parikrama.

The magnificent beauty of the temple at night is worth seeing.  This huge temple was built in 5 years.  It receives 100,000 visitors a week and around 850 volunteers work here daily.

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Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple,  Kerala

l'he Vallie of treasull e consisting of thousands of kilos of gold,  diamonds,  gems and silver ornaments,  found concealed in di Terenl cellars at
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram.  Kerala,  is estimated to cross over a mind-blowing Rs 1,00,000 crore.

Forget aboul the Kollinoor and other jewels hcrc,  according to experts,  it is impossiblc say how costly the idol of Lord Vishnu stored in the treasure of this temple would be.  The several chambers of the temple storing tremendous wealth have been opened,  bul there is onc main cellar that still nccds to bc explored.

Find out about other places that are a storehouse ol unbelievable treasure in the further slides.

The Krishna River,  Andhra Pradesh

This river is the birthplace of the famous Kohinoor;  diamond.  These mines were the main source of diamond for the whole world for some time.  It is believed that even today,  there are uncountable diamonds present underneath the River.

Sree Mookambika Temple,  Karnataka

Nestling in the foothills of Kodachadri hills of the Western Ghats,  Shree Mookambika Temple is a busy pilgrim centre of Karnataka.  Over the past couple of years,  the temple:s annual income hasn t exccded Rs 17 crore.  The management,  however,  has spent over Rs 35 crore for developmental projects over the Nast 10 years.

The priests of this tcmplc have confirm cd the presence of hidden treasure here,  which according to them is inside a closed chamber here.  The gate of this chamber has a snake symbol drawn on il,  which the priests say.  indicates wealth.

Nadir Shah s Treasure

The Persian ruler Nadir Shah plundered Delhi in 1739 with his 50,000 soldiers.  Ilis army looted all that thcy could put thcir hands on.  At the end of the episode,  30,000 people lost their lives and Nadir Shah got enough wealth ina tiding the peacock throne and the roya jewelry amounting lo crores of rupees.  lhe pcacock throne is in Iran currently.

Son Bhandar Caves,  Rajgir,  Bihar.

 Son Bhandar;,  which literally means storehouse ol gold are the lwin Caves having hidden royal treasures.  It is said that thcsc caves lead to the untouched treasure of King Bimbisara.  A canon mark near the inscription stands testimony to the British s failed attempt to break open the doorway.