Why sun god never worship in konarak sun temple?

        Konarak sun temple which is located 35 kilometers northeast from puri on to the coastline of Odisha, India. Coordinates 19°53’15” N,86°5’41” E on Google map.

 History of Konarak sun temple

     

Complete carcass of the sun temple

 Konarak sun temple is dedicated to the Hindu god “Surya”. The complete carcass of the temple did not remain but remaining voor the temple complex has the appearance of

approximately 127 feet high with immense wheels and horses all carcass carved from stone. The complete carcass of the temple is over 227 feet high.
        The template built in the 13th century approximately 800 years ago by the Ganga king Narsimbhadeva 1. This is the one of the most epic temples located in Odisha India,
        UNESCO declared a world heritage site.

        The most shocking fact about Konarak sun temple.

        The temple which is around 800 years old, but never ever happened worship in the temple.
        How is it possible that the sun god did not get worshipped in one of the most epic temples built for him ?.
       This ancient story goes back to the 13th century.
       When 1200 workers (stone carving workers) worked for 12year to build the Konarak sun temple with chief architect Bishu Maharana. Temple which total area covered across 12 acres on the command of king narsimbhadeva 1 of the Western Ganga dynasty.

King Narsimbhadeva -1

       The Konarak temple which was in the carcass of a  chariot was built of stone which was brought from hills of kadamgiri and Uday Giri about 100 kilometers away from kinaro.
       It was a great engineering masterpiece where the entire structure was built of stone and they were interlocked by metals. The entire metal skeleton was held together by a huge magnet which was more than 5 tons in weight.
      At that time the Konarak temple which we see is the mukhasthla ( the entrance) of the template.
      The ancient story said that the idol of the sun god was made of astadhatu (an alloy of 8 metals) this was suspended in mid-air balance by the magnet.
        King narsimbhadeva 1 determine the deadline for the completion of the temple and if the workers could fail to do it then he had declared to behead all 1200 workers.
       The temple was completed in time except for the crown stone which is dadhinauti. There was some problems occurring while the workers were trying to install dadhi nanti and it used to fall down all hence they were not able to complete the work.
       On the second last day of the deadline which is declared by king Narsimbhadeva, the chief architect Bishu maharana had already gone into a depression since he realized that the king narsimbhadeva was going to kill all 1200 men who had worked day and night without meeting their families and 1200 families were going to get destroyed in a one day.
       Suddenly he saw a young boy around 12-year-old coming in search of him. the boy's name was dharma pada. The boy came and told bishu maharana that he was his son bishu maharana was shocked because he had never seen his son since his son was 12 years old and all this while he was there busy in the work of the temple.
       He got really elected seeing hid son for the 1st time and the father and son had some moments of delight but after some time bishu maharana gave some sad news to Dharmapada. “That was the king is going to kill all of the 1200 workers since they were not able to build the temple in time”.
        The 12-year-old boy dharmapada surprise everyone to installing the dadhi nathi and the problem in hand was solved.
       But everybody started discussing that if king narsimbhadeva 1 gets to know that a 12-year-old boy was the person responsible for this success of the work rather than the 1200 experienced workers than anyway the king would kill them all.
So the dharmapada decided to sacrifice his life by kampung from the top of the temple in the chandrabhava river and save the 1200 workers from getting beheaded.
        Since that time the temple become unholy with the death of dharmapada.
        Sun god never worshipped there. The myth says that Dharmapada was an avatar of the sun god who comes to break the ego of the king.

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