The find is a huge granite artifact, the purpose of which remains in question.
If you look closely at the photographs, you will notice that the artifact differs from the buildings by a number of quality of work. The difference is certainly not strong, but it is processed better than the nearest blocks.
There is a hole in the artifact on one side. To my great regret, there can be no talk of any high technologies here.
Its curvature is clearly visible, which means it was made with the help of manual labor, and not machinery or other unknown technologies.
However, it is far from the fact that the hole and the artifact were made by the same builders.
Let's take a look at the photos of the middle and far parts of the find.
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The outer sides are well finished, but the bottom or bottom seems not to be processed at all. This can be explained by 2 options.
- The artifact is an element of the temple, therefore, high-quality processing was required only for the outer sides (for ancient Indian temples this is a characteristic phenomenon).
- The lower part was exposed to water or some other elements, which is why it acquired this appearance. But then, why did the inner walls keep their processing?
By the way, traces of impact are visible in the photo of the far part of the artifact.
But at the beginning there are no such traces for some reason.
I circled the hole that I showed in early photographs.
Some people speculate that this artifact actually served as a drinker for horses, elephants, or other animals.
But why complicate your life so much and make some kind of granite drinker, and even process it with high quality? It should be added that there are no more "drinkers" of this size in India.
I saw something similar near the Warangal temple. True, the outer sides of the granite boxes are not processed here, but the bottom, on the contrary, is well processed.
Well, as I said earlier, they are several times smaller in size.
The true purpose of the granite artifact can be considered a mystery, because there are still too many incomprehensible moments around it.