Friday, 7 October 2011

The worlds largest shiva temple is being damaged

imageThere is a shiva temple in the border of Thai- Cambodia. This temple belongs to 11th century and was built by Surya varma I and surya varma II.
It was well developed in terms of design and the god shiva is in the form of nataraja. In the war which is there about the border issue between
Thai and Cambodia , this very rare and valuable temple was partially damaged. It contains 4 GOPURAS, in 100 acres. The temples of BRAHMA, VISHNU, KRISHNA are there in this temple and it contains old sanskrit scripts in the walls.This temple is called as Preah Vihear temple Cambodia, but its also called as BHADRESWdARA temple.
It can be called as the biggest shiva temple in the world

The war between two countries made the temple to be damaged . The director of world hindu statesmen, Sri. Rajan zed,also the president of Universal society of hinduism, made an appeal to ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), to save the temple from the clash of Thai and Cambodia.He said that UNESCO should announce this temple as worlds heritage and appropriate actions should be taken for the temples protection.



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