{"id":218487,"date":"2022-12-15T19:56:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218487"},"modified":"2022-12-15T19:56:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:26:43","slug":"all-about-tripuras-unakoti-the-angkor-wat-of-the-north-east-seeking-unesco-world-heritage-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/all-about-tripuras-unakoti-the-angkor-wat-of-the-north-east-seeking-unesco-world-heritage-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"All about Tripura\u2019s Unakoti, the \u2018Angkor Wat of the North-East\u2019 seeking UNESCO world heritage tag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cAll about Tripura\u2019s Unakoti, the \u2018Angkor Wat of the North-East\u2019 seeking UNESCO world heritage tag\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 15th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Unakoti, famously known as the \u2018Angkor Wat of the North-East\u2019 is vying for a UNESCO World Heritage Tag.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Unakoti?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Unakoti is located in Tripura. It is a \u2018Shaiba\u2019 (Saivite) pilgrimage site with gigantic rock cut sculptures.<\/span><\/p>\n

The site displays almost the same mystical charm as the Angkor Wat temple of Cambodia. Hence, it is called the Angkor Wat of North-East<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meaning:<\/b> Literally, Unakoti means \u2018one less one crore\u2019 in Hindi and Bengali and it is believed that these many rock carvings (ninety-nine lakh ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine) are present here.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 In the local Kokborok language, <\/span>Unakoti<\/b> is called Subrai Khung\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mythological significance:<\/b> According to Hindu mythology, when Lord Shiva was going to Kashi along with one crore gods and goddesses, he made a night halt at this location. He asked all his fellow gods and goddesses to wake up before sunrise and proceed for Kashi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 It is believed that in the morning, except Shiva, none of them could wake up so he set out for Kashi alone, cursing others to become stone images.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 As a result of this curse, ninety-nine lakh ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine stone images and carvings continue to be present at Unakoti.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Angkor Wat Temple?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Angkor Wat <\/span>literally means \u2018city of temples\u2019. It<\/span> is a temple complex in <\/span>Cambodia<\/span> and is the largest religious monument in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

The temple was built by king Suryavarman II who is regarded as the Khmer empire\u2019s greatest kings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The temple was originally constructed as a Hindu temple<\/span> dedicated to the god Vishnu. But it was gradually transformed into a Buddhist temple towards the end of the 12th century. As such, it is also described as a “Hindu-Buddhist” temple.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAll about Tripura\u2019s Unakoti, the \u2018Angkor Wat of the North-East\u2019 seeking UNESCO world heritage tag\u201d published in Indian Express on 15th December 2022 What is the News? Unakoti, famously known as the \u2018Angkor Wat of the North-East\u2019 is vying for a UNESCO World Heritage Tag. What is… Continue reading All about Tripura\u2019s Unakoti, the \u2018Angkor Wat of the North-East\u2019 seeking UNESCO world heritage tag<\/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":[1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-218487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218487","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=218487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}