use of lathe in ancient temple

 Amruteshvara temple is situated in Amruthapura village, 67 km north of Chikmagalur town in the Chikkamagaluru district of the Karnataka state,India. In 1196 C.E. the temple was constructed, by Amrutheshwara Dandanayaka, under Hoysala King Veera Ballala II.

mruteshvara’s Temple Science

The temple is an architecture constructed by Hoysala with a broad open mantapa. The temple has an integral exterior wall with circular sculptures that are similarly spaced. The temple has one vimana and is therefore an ekakuta design, with a closed mantapa (hall) connecting the sanctum with the big open mantapa. The mantapa has several deeply domed internal ceiling structures decorated with floral patterns.The open mantapa's exterior parapet wall has a total of hundred and forty panel sculptures with the representation of Hindu mythology (Puran) and Hindu history. 

ancient machine technology at Amruteshvara temple  

The sculptures carved on the temple walls show variations of the ancient lifestyle along with the Hindu mythology and Hindu history.

The Ramayana is carved on 70 panels on the south side wall, with the narrative going quite exceptionally in the direction of anti-clockwise. All representations on the north side wall are clockwise, a standard in the architectural articulation of Hoysala. Twenty-five panels portray Sri Krishna's life and the other forty-five panels portray scenes from the Mahabharata  and it’s  spirituality.    

 If you see closely  the temple pillars, you can find something really strange about these pillars,  you can see  minute circular marks all around the pillar. These can be  formed by machining the pillar on a lathe, which is called Turning. There are no ways to do this manually with chisels and hammers.

Metal Tuning in lathe 

archaeologists agree that these pillars were created with a  lathe but do not offer any convincing explanation as to how these massive pillars were machined 1000 years ago. 

Today we can create these remarkable grooves and designs on a lathe, but even today it would be very difficult to machine a 14-foot-tall rock pillar. So how these pillars were created in ancient times with incredible perfection...? Did ancient Indians use machines and advanced tools, just like what we use today? Is this why we see such impossible perfections on the pillars and sculptures? 

We can see some 10 ft tall God’s sculptures with the extraordinary  ornaments. Most probably the sculptures are of Bhairava. His crown is decorated with skulls which are less than one inch wide. The amazing things are hidden in the skulls of 1 inch size. The skulls are hollow inside. It is impossible to remove the inside of a small sphere which is only 1 inch wide. There is a very small gaps between the head and crown.The gap is less than 3 millimeters wide. How could any one create a small gap, less than 3 millimeters wide with primitive chisels?  

extraordinary single rock cut pillar, according to rough estimate more than thousand small and fine idols with different designs have been carved in this single rock pillar , today this type of art is impossible without machines, even machines can't bring this type of super perfections.

Even with modern machine it would be very difficult to create such skulls ornaments with this perfections. 

But we know creating a hollow sphere inside of such  small rock is impossible with primitive tools. Archaeologists confirmed that this 10 foot tall figures are made of one solid rock. How do you explain these extraordinary sculptures made 1000 years go?  

The  level of polishing in each pillar is possible only with machining.polishing is so smooth that after 1000 of years you can literary see your face like a mirror. 

Intricate carving on Domical ceiling at Amrutesvara temple, fine art on single rock -  is not possible without machine even today.