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| Culture Course |
KONARK |
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| ‘Kona’
means corner and ‘arka’ means Sun. The name Konarak is appropriate because it is
in the north-eastern corner of Orissa. It is on the seashore at a distance of twenty-one miles from Puri. The present Sum Temple at Konark was built by a king called Narasimha about 700 years ago. Lord Krishna had a son named Samba. He seemed to be suffering from an incurable ailment. Krishna told him to go to this place in what is now Orissa, and pray to the Sun-God. Samba bathed in the Chandrabhaga river there, repeating the twenty-one name of the Sun-God. An idol of the Sun-God appeared in his hands under water. The God was seated on a lotus. |
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About Konark |
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