Shiv Temple Mystery
Can you guess the commonality among all these renowned temples?
- Kedarnath Temple
- Kaleshwaram Temple
- Srikalahasti Temple
- Ekambareswarar Temple
- Arunachaleswarar Temple
- Thillai Nataraja Temple
- Jambukeswara Temple
- Ramanathaswamy Temple
If your response is that they are all Shiva temples, you are only partly correct. The common factor is, in fact, the longitude in which these temples are situated.
All of them are positioned along the approximate 79° longitude. What's truly remarkable and awe-inspiring is how the architects of these temples, separated by many hundreds of kilometers, arrived at these precise locations without the aid of GPS or any modern technology of that kind.
Temple's longitude
- Kedarnath – Kedarnath Temple (30.7352° N, 79.0669° E)
- Kaleshwaram – Kaleshwara Mukteeshwara Swamy Temple (18.8110° N, 79.9067° E)
- Srikalahasti – Srikalahasti Temple (13.749802° N, 79.698410° E)
- Kanchipuram – Ekambareswarar Temple (12.847604° N, 79.699798° E)
- Tiruvannamalai – Arunachaleswarar Temple (12.231942° N, 79.067694° E)
- Thillai Nataraja Temple (11.399596° N, 79.693559° E)
- Thiruvanaikaval – Jambukeswara Temple (10.853383° N, 78.705455° E)
- Rameswaram – Ramanathaswamy Temple (9.2881° N, 79.3174° E)
Among the mentioned temples, five are recognized as Pancha Bhoota Lingas, representing the five elements:
Earth at Kanchipuram (Ekambareswarar Temple)
Water at Thiruvanaikaval (Jambukeswara Temple)
Fire (Agni) at Tiruvannamalai (Arunachaleswarar /Annamalaiyar Temple)
Air at Srikalahasti (Srikalahasti Temple), and
Space at Chidambaram (Nataraja Temple).
Kedarnath and Rameswaram Shiva temples are part of the 12 Jyotirlingas, while the Kaleshwaram Shiva temple holds the unique distinction of having two Shiva lingas on a single pedestal.
What's intriguing is that these temples are separated by a distance of 2383 kilometers, stretching from Kedarnath to Rameswaram, and they were constructed in an era when satellite technology was not available to precisely measure the latitude and longitude of these locations.
Google Map Link & Map
Checkout below Google Link or map which shows that all temples are in almost same line.
