What really makes everyone marvel most is how the Lepakshi Temple is home to the miraculous hanging pillar.
It is absolutely stunning to even dare imagine what instruments could have been used to have a wafer-thin gap between the pillar's bottom and the surface of the rocky stone floor under it. The guides who take you around here will do different things to prove that the rock solid stone pillar is indeed hanging and is suspended, not touching the floor.
Like moving a twig slowly under the pillar. Or sending a scarf between the pillar's base and the floor under it. From one end to the other! Tourists give out audible gasps.
There are about 70 pillars at this fabulous 16th-century temple of stone in Vijayanagar style, but this one is the best known and a tribute to the engineering genius of ancient and medieval India’s temple builders.
However, it is a slightly dislodged from its original position — it is said that during the British era, a British engineer tried to move it in an unsuccessful attempt to uncover the secret of its support. Needless to add, neither the curious British engineer (identity unknown) nor anyone after him have been able to explain the mystery of how the hanging pillar at the Lepakshi temple was crafted.
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