The Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor participated in a religious ceremony held in the ruins of the 8th century Martand Sun temple, a protected monument under the Archaeological Survey of India. This temple has been recognised as a \u201cSite of national importance”.<\/span><\/p>\n The Martand Sun Temple also known as Pandou Laidan is located five miles from Anantnag in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n It is a Hindu temple dedicated to Surya (the chief solar deity in Hinduism) and built during the 8th century CE. Martand is another Sanskrit synonym for Surya.<\/span><\/p>\n It was built during the 8th century CE by the third ruler of the Karkota Dynasty, Lalitaditya Muktapida.<\/span><\/p>\n It is now in ruins, as it was destroyed by the orders of Muslim ruler Sikandar Shah Miri.<\/span><\/p>\n From the ruins and related archaeological findings, it can be said it was an excellent specimen of Kashmiri architecture, which had blended the Gandharan, Gupta and Chinese forms of architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n The temple also appears in the list of centrally protected monuments as Kartanda (Sun Temple).<\/span><\/p>\n Lalitaditya <\/span>alias <\/span>Muktapida<\/span>(724 CE\u2013760 CE) was a powerful ruler of the <\/span>Karkota dynasty<\/span> of the <\/span>Kashmir<\/span> region in the <\/span>Indian subcontinent<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n He commissioned a number of shrines in Kashmir, including the now-ruined Martand Sun Temple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He also established several towns, including a new capital at Parihasapura although he also maintained the dynasty’s traditional capital at Srinagara.<\/span><\/p>\n The main source of information about Lalitaditya is <\/span>Rajatarangini<\/span><\/i>, a chronicle of the rulers of Kashmir, by the 12th century Kashmiri writer Kalhana.<\/span><\/p>\n Lalitaditya also finds a brief mention in the New Book of Tang (<\/span>Xin Tang shu<\/span><\/i>), a record of the Tang dynasty of China.<\/span><\/p>\n The 11th-century Persian chronicler Al-Biruni mentions a Kashmiri king called Muttai who was most probably Lalitaditya.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Puja event at ASI-protected Martand Temple in Kashmir stokes controversy <\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on<\/span> 8th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor participated in a religious ceremony held in the ruins of the 8th century Martand Sun temple, a protected monument under the Archaeological Survey of India. This temple has been recognised as a \u201cSite of national importance”. What is Martand Sun Temple? The Martand Sun Temple… Continue reading Puja event at ASI-protected Martand Temple in Kashmir stokes controversy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-183825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Martand Sun Temple?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Who was Lalitaditya?<\/b><\/h5>\n