ANCIENT LONGITUDINAL ALIGNMENT OF SHIVA TEMPLES IN INDIA

Five Shiva temples are positioned in one straight line

Amateur archaeologist Arthur Watkins in England wrote two significant books "Early British Track way" and "The Old Straight Track". In these books Watkins wrote that in his exploration he found several megaliths, forts and Churches in Britain were positioned in a straight line. He named this line as the Ley Lines. Since then several lines as Michael Lines etc too soon came into the fray.These lines were held as pseudoscience and products of bad archaeology by mainstream archaeologists.

In the course of my research on the megaliths of India, I found that several of these megaliths were aligned to the notches and peaks of the encircling hills.

The ancient Brahmanical text "Suryasidhanta" that deals with astronomy and mathematics of ancient India does mention such an alignment. The text states that the prime meridian of Hindu astronomy called the madhyarekha begins from the poles and passing though Lanka in the South touches the cities of Avanti (present Ujjain) and Rohitaka (present Rohtak). 

Research has shown that similar to the alignments of even more ancient megaliths of the tribals  five Shiva temples in India beginning from Kedarnath in the North to Ramesharam in the South have been built approximately on the same vertical longitudinal 79 deg 41.54 E.

Piri Reis, admiral and cartographer of the ottoman Empire compiled a world map in 1513 which showed the western coasts of Europe, North Africa, Azores and the Canary islands, Brazil, Japan and perhaps even Antarctica when the cold continent was devoid of ice. it is also believed that Reis had procured the map of an earlier source.Such alignments across the world does give an indication that much of the past lies indeed hidden. More research is required to bring forth the prevalence of such astronomy, mathematics and method of mapping of the earth during the prehistorical era.

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