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Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. The team announced their initial findings in June A key feature of the expedition was its use of helicopter-mounted Lidar technology to scan the Phnom Kulen area and then map the city layout. The scanning phase involved seven days of helicopter operations. The Lidar results confirmed ground-based research by previous archaeologists. But, according to Chevance, before this they "didn't know how all the dots fitted, exactly how it all came together".
The ground phase of the expedition traversed goat tracks and watery bogs, the team having got to their starting point by motorbike.
Hazards included landmines. They initially uncovered five new temples. Eventually, using the Lidar data, 30 previously unidentified temples were discovered.
In addition to the temples, their research showed the existence of an elaborate grid-like network of roads, dykes and ponds forming the city. Evans also noted that expedition imagery shows that the area became deforested, and he theorises that the impact of this, and water management issues, led to the civilisation's decline.
History : The expedition team have dated Mahendraparvata's origins to AD. Thus the city predates Angkor Wat by about years. His reign was consecrated on the sacred mountain of Mahendraparvata, known as Phnom Kulen in contemporary Cambodian. The expedition of French archaeologist and art historian Philippe Stern had also explored the Phnom Kulen highlands. He discovered some previously unknown temples and Vishnu statues and described the area as the first true temple mountain.
But the area, while being the source of rivers flowing south to the Tonle Sap, was remote. It is the place where Bhargava Rama or Parashurama spending his days of life, as he is one of the chiranjeevi or having life up to pralaya. This place was visited by Arjuna as part of his pilgrimage. The Mahendra mountain is associated with east direction which clearly says that it is non other than Eastern Ghats. It is associated with mythological stories from the Ramayana as Mahendra Parvata mountain.
Kishkindha Kanda Sarga 42 - Sugreeva sends troops to west side to search for Sita under the leadership of Sushena , the father of lady Tara.
Describing the various provinces like Surashtra , Balhika and Chandrachitra Mathura , Western Ocean, River Sindhu and magnificent mountains that are situated at the northwest of India, cities like Murachi , Jatapura , Avanti and Angalepa and also the ocean down south to it, namely the present Arabian Sea and almost up to Persian provinces, he orders monkey troops to return within one month's time. Mahendra is mentioned in Ramayana IV. Megha, or Mt. Meghavanta , which you have to scour.
Meghavanta , you shall go to the range of sixty thousand golden mountains. These are pieces of two Monolithic pillars. These bear inscription which also records the victory of Yashodharman. One of the pillar Capitals has lions seated back to back C. Mahendragiri has interesting archaeological remains. Alexander Cunningham [22] writes that In the seventh century, the capital of the kingdom of Kie-ling-kia , or Kalinga , was situated at from to li, or from to miles, to the south-west of Ganjam.
But as the former is known to have been the capital of the country for a long period, I presume that it must be the place that was visited by the Chinese pilgrim. The original capital of Kalinga is said to have been Srikakola , or Chikakol , 20 miles to the south-west of Kalinga-patam.
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