Mysterious Places in India

1. Mysterious Temple of Shree Padmanabhaswamy

Shree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is located at Thiruvananthapuram on the southwest coast. This temple is a Hindu temple that dedicates to Lord Vishnu. The Padmanabhaswamy Temple was created in the 8th century, but the present structure was built in the 18th century by Travancore Maharaja Marthanda Varma. Nowadays this temple is run by a trust handled by the royalfamily of Travancore.

There is a total of six vaults called vault A, B, C, D, E and F located below the temple which is filled with treasures that are known after the Supreme Court-appointed a seven-member panel that controlled by amicus curiae Gopal Subramaniam to evaluate the value of the treasure inside the vaults. They discovered at a depth of 20 feet under the temple and find approximately $1 Trillion in treasure including golden idols, golden elephants and idols wearing 18-foot diamond necklaces, along with bags of golds coins and ceremonial costumes included 66-pound solid gold coconut shells covered with rubies and emeralds. The vault found contained many diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other precious ancient stones.

There is one vault which not opened yet because it is dangerous for people who do not know “GARUDA MANTRA” according to some well-known ‘SADHUS’. That secret vault is only opened by a high level ‘SADHUS’ who are familiar with the knowledge of chanting a ‘GARUDA MANTRA’. At present, there is nobody in the world who possesses the highly sacred and powerful ‘SIDDHAPURSHAS’ and how to execute the highly sacred ‘GARUDA MANTRA’.

After this treasure was discovered, the Padmanabhaswamy temple became the wealthiest temple in the world and also known as the Mysterious temple in the world.

2. King Kothi Palace

King Kothi Palace also called Nazri Bagh Palace is a royal palace in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. This royal palace owned by the Nizam of Hyderabad. Generally, Kamal Khan built this palace for his residence, later Nizam bought this palace when he was only 13. He has stayed after he acceded to the throne in 1911 and did not move to ChowmahallaPalace where his father lived.

This palace had many expensive items which are stored in steel trunks at the sprawling palace, affixed with English made padlocks. In this palace, there are two groups which contained three main buildings with a big library that often used by the last Nizam. The first building that is now occupied by state government hospital was previously used by Nizam for official and ceremonial purposes. NazriBagh or Mubarak Mansion is located on the west side which is now walled, and it was the main residential buildings of this palace. The third building is called Usman Mansion. There are always some soldiers, police and Sarf-E-Khas army wearing lances guarding the main entrance to Nazri Bagh which is called purdah gate. This gate indicates the presence of Nizam, if he was not at home then the purdah was lifted which means the king was not present at home.

This palace is beautifully structured in European styles with sophisticated woodwork on canopied windows, big columns and a big portico at the doorway and the sloping tiled roofs in octagonal pyramid shapes of the Ghadial Gate complex. This complex located east of Mubarak Mansion with a clock.

Nowadays, there are only two main building eastern half (hospital)and the western half (Nazri Bagh) are survived and Usman Mansion, the third building was destroyed in early 1980.

The last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali was named as ‘fifth all-time wealthiest person with a net worth of $210.8 billion by Forbes magazine, while Time magazine declared him the richest man in the world in 1937. His riches had been hidden in the underground chambers of King Kothi Palace. This will be quite a quest to hunt the King Kothi Place.

3. Krishna River Treasure

The Krishna River is the fourth-biggest river in conditions of water inflows and basin area in India after the top 3 biggest river Ganga, Godavari and Brahmaputra. This river is also called Krishnaveni, and it is 1288 kilometres long. This river is the major source for Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

The Kollur mine, the ‘Eldorado’ that gave lots of gold and the village in Andhra Pradesh lies in a forested region some 100 kilometres from Vijayawada, enveloped by the Pulichintalaproject or the Dr KL Rao Sagar project on the Krishna river. While India’s battle to retrieve the Kohinoor diamond continues, summer has given a new lease for mines on the Krishna river that spawned the crown jewel. According to the region, there were millions of carats of diamonds have been mined from Kollur between the 15th and 19th century.

The Kohinoor was mined in the 16th century and was sold in Golconda and 2004, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy government instigated the Pulichintala multipurpose irrigation project under the ambitious Jalayagnyam programme to exploit the waters of the Krishna river and presently entire region remains submerged under 50 feet of Krishna river water in most of the year. People are always searching for diamond around the river commonly.

This place is a regular income source for the villager who is lived there. They give a one-week contract for searching in which the working group is expected to dig and collect the stones. They paid for that stones thereafter working groups get that stones. One of their village girls found a precious diamond worth approximately 7 lakhs by a trade. After Kohinoor was mined, its travel from the Mughal court to Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Darbar in Punjab to the Crown of the Queen of England.

So, if we are lucky then we also find a diamond today because seven of the world’s top 10 diamonds are said to be from Andhra Pradesh.

References:

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DOBSON, Jim. A One Trillion Dollar Hidden Treasure Chamber Is Discovered at India’s Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple. Forbes, 2015, Published Online, A One Trillion Dollar Hidden Treasure Chamber is Discovered at India's Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple (forbes.com). Accessed on 18 April 2021.

In The Quest Of Yet Another Koh-I-Noor. The Hindu, 2017, Published Online, In the quest of yet another Koh-i-noor - The Hindu. Accessed 19 April 2021

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