"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

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It says that when King Narasimhadeva I commissioned the Konark Sun Temple in the 13th century CE ... To prevent this, Dharmapada made the ultimate sacrifice. It is said that he threw himself ...

The temple is aligned with the sun, so the sun’s rays shine on it at certain times. This alignment shows the advanced knowledge of astronomy and architecture of ancient India.

The sun has morphed into a lifeless black circle ... a shift away from solar worship. "This king precisely corresponds to the eclipse," Magli, a professor of Archaeoastronomy at the Department ...