Hampi -05
If you have not covered the earlier ones:
| Sl. No: | Title | Link | #TI No | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Magnificent Hamp | Here | 63 | TravellerG | |
| 2 | HAMPI - Where Every Stone piece Speaks Story of Centuries | Here | 64 | Harsha_Reddy | |
| 3 | Amazing Musical Pillars of Hampi | Here | 65 | Harsha_Reddy | More |
Today’s Hampi, although remains as “Ruins”, still has many FACTS/Stories to explain/tell us - many ‘findings’ which are already with us are mindblowing and some are unbelievable too. I do not have enough strength of imagination, what Scientists in the coming years will explain to us.
The Musical Pillars, detailed by our @Harsha_Reddy (Post Here) is one of the wonders, archaeologists have explained to us. Can you Imagine - Just ordinary looking Granite Pillars, if tapped with hand (sandalwood stick) can produce tuned musical notes!? (of course, after the invasion & destruction, the timber of the sound has changed).
Now listen carefully… Centuries back, people knew Sound & its relation with “Visual Patterns of Sound” - Today we study this as a branch of science called “Cymatics”.
Cymatics deals with the study of the visual form of sound (in the space - 2 or 3 dimensional). Any musical note produced can be visually seen - the shapes will depend upon different parameters, including frequency, media, etc.
If fine particles (Ex: fine sand) are spread on a vibrating plate (Ex: Thin plate or Diagphram) and if the plate is subjected to different Sound Frequencies (Ex; rub the plate with a Violin Bow), then we can see that the particles take special shapes.
[YouTube gives beautiful explanations about this].
As examples, the following Photos show the patterns created by Sound Waves.
[from WikiMediaCommons, with the heading of “Assembly of microscale materials on Faraday waves” [Collection of 16 Different Cymatic Patterns)]
Hope this gives you an idea - these are “Sound Shapes”! - Says, Cymatics… OK?
Now is the Climax:
The Vijaya Vittala Temple (in Hampi) is a complex & the Ranaga Mantapa (the performance hall) is where the musical concerts & dances, etc. [Google Maps Here] were conducted. The Roof of this hall has many of such Scientific Patterns (Closely resembling the Cymatic Patterns)!!!
Kindly see the following 3 Photos of the roof of Ranga Mantapa - AND - Compare it with the “Concepts” of the above Cymatic Patterns (photos) - you can easily feel the closeness.
Patter -01 Pattern -02
IMP: Pattern -03. In this Pattern, the dancing females are tapping with sticks - hope you can see…
Why they took all the pain to create these patterns/carvings/engravings & kept it on the ROOF - And that too in the Musical Hall?
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I have expressed my part - now, can you all give your answer to this question, please? Thanks for your contributions, in advance.
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Many of you will have a collection of such Patterns/Images from Rangoli/Kolam, etc. - Right? Can you post some of them, similar to these, in your response?
NOTE:
The following image is taken from the post (Here) of our senior LG @Gurukrishnapriya , regarding KOLAM. Here also we can see the similarity…
Regards to all who visited this post.
