Hi Darek,
For what it's worth: I think the interpretation is balderdash...
The 'traditional' understanding of the wheels is that the temple is
conceived as a chariot which is being drawn towards the sun, to which
the temple is dedicated.
As the Wikipedia entry notes:
"The temple has been built in the form of a giant ornamented chariot of
the Sun god, Surya. It has twelve pairs of elaborately carved stone
wheels which are 3 meters[3] wide and is pulled by a set of seven horses
(4 on the right and 3 on the left).[5] The temple follows the
traditional style of Kalinga architecture. It is carefully oriented
towards the east so that the first rays of sunrise strikes the principal
entrance."
best wishes,
Peter
On 1/12/2014 10:08 AM, Darek Oczki wrote:
Hello All
I am very much interested in ancient India. Let's call it Vedic times. Does
anyone here have any knowledge about time measuring of that period? And I do
not mean Jantar Mantar observatories but rather times much much prior to that.
Someone just sent me this Youtube video about a sundial of Konark temple. I
wonder it there is any real science behind what they say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9RF9lLBIMs
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