Chaturbhuj Temple Gwalior

[rizbab28]

Caption Chaturbhuj Temple Gwalior MP India.

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Gwalior Journey is a golden opportunity to get oriented and acquainted with historical and archaeological monuments etc. Surprises and interesting facts are important and memorable elements of this trip for the tourists. Chaturbhaj Temple is one such special heritage and ancient monument, most tourists remain unaware of the interesting features and they just miss the opportunity.

It’s a small East facing temple dedicated to four armed Lord Vishnu. It is a Rock cut temple and was sculpted from the one rock. It was carved out during the the reign of King Bhojdeva of the Pritihara dynasty. It has a portico supported by pillars, square sanctum Sanctorum which houses the chief deity and its roof is adorned by a tower or Shikhara. Pillars and portico’s celing is having carvings of the Lord Krishna’s mythical stories and exterior having the Sculptures of Dancing Ganesha, Kartikeya, Goddesses Parvati in the Panchagni form, Lord Vishnu etc. are the attractive Sculptures. And the most interesting fact is an inscription in which the first use of Zero as a digital number was used in this region is engraved on the Southern interior wall. Emptiness or voidness is considered as a Shunya in Sanskrit and it’s being practiced since 300 BC but it was invented by the great Astronomer Aryabhatta in the end of fifth century and further it was given a height by another Astronomer and mathematcian Brahmagupta in about 628 AD. This ancient temple tower and few other parts were damaged but restored by the Archaeological Survey of India.

I am sure it will help the tourits. As it’s a major attraction among the history buffs wanderers soulseekers heritage art and architecture lovers.

[TusharSuradkar]

Thanks for the information and the picture of the temple @rizbab28

For a moment I thought you have again posted about the Chaturbhuj temple of Orchha but then I read that you have specifically mentioned Gwalior in the title so I for interested and found that this place is much fascinating.

~Greetings from New Delhi

[rizbab28]

@TusharSuradkar

Thank you very much Brother.

[MashaPS]

Hi @rizbab28 ,

Thank you for sharing about the Chaturbhaj Temple with us.

It is amazing how it was built of a single rock. And the graving looks stunning.

However the thing that caught my attention the most was the moment with the zero digit. I would love to read more about this. Do you know why it was that special the first usage of the digit? What symbols for numbers were used before that?

[rizbab28]

Hello @MashaPS ,

I am grateful for your graceful and curious admiration. Yes Zero being used since 4 to 5 century BC by Sumarian, later by Mayans and some where in the form of as a blank, a dot or eye shape but as a digit it was used by the great Indian Astronomer and Mathematcian Arya Bhatt in the end of 5th Century AD. From India it has spreaded to Arabia and then to the Europe. I will try to post about this interesting subject seperately. This temple has the earliest record of its use a digit.

[MashaPS]

Hey @rizbab28 ,

Thanks for your reply.

The fact that the Zero was spread from India to Arabia is something new and very interesting for me. I was taught as a student, that the numerals we are using on a daily basis are Arabic and the other ones are Roman.

I would love to read your post about this.

Thanks

[Saiyen]

Thanks @rizbab28 for sharing this informative post with us.

[TusharSuradkar]

Hi @MashaPS

In your reply to this discussion, you may want to replace my name with @rizbab28

Now that you tagged me, I will add a bit to this topic since it is my area of interest as well.

If you are living in Europe you will never learn that the Arabic numerals were of Indian origin.

Hordes of Arabs students traveled to India in the early days of Islam i.e. during the 7th to 11th century and studied science, mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, medicine, geography, and other disciplines and translated almost every Indian library available at that time to Arabic. The best part of it was they acknowledged without fail that what they learned, especially mathematics, was from Indian scholars. This knowledge then spread to Europe but the acknowledgment was dropped out.

Here’s the Wikipedia link for India to Arabia transfer of knowledge.

Here’s the Wikipedia link for Arabia to Europe transfer of knowledge.

~Greetings from New Delhi

[rizbab28]

@Saiyen

Your appreciation and each word means a lot, thanks.

[rizbab28]

@MashaPS

The reality is that we should be comfortable to learn new and amazing. Traveling is a surprise contributor to our cultural arts and technological development and discoveries. Very grateful for your beautiful thoughts and appreciation.

[MashaPS]

Thank you @TusharSuradkar ,

I edited it.

You are right, I never knew these essential facts.

Thanks for the articles. I will read them and learn new facts for me.

[MashaPS]

Hi @rizbab28 ,

I absolutely agree with you.

I am always open to learn new things.

Thanks to this great and diverse worldwide community we can learn so many things from each other without even travelling.

[rizbab28]

@MashaPS

I am touched beyond Words, thanks for your graceful appreciation and understanding.