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Chapter 03
Satellite Studies and Imagery
Thus satellite data proves that our ancient cities were that of certain shapes which were known by different names accordingly. Even today such temples are there in existence and some new temples having such plans are under construction. The figure shows existence of such Chaturmukha temple at Dhulingmath in Tibet and Mahavirpuram temple at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India under construction.
Chaturmukha
Mandala Temple (old) at
Gandhinagar - Mahavirpuram (new) in Gujarat, India Dhulingmath, Tibet
(under & after construction) The following picture shows the location of Mt. Kailash and Ashtapad in commercially available aerial photograph.
Kailash - Ashtapad
Kailash and Ashtapad on aerial photograph This was compared with the 1:50,000 scale trekking map of Kailash purchased from Kathmandu, published by Karto Atelier, Nepal. After analyzing data I believe that I am near success in locating Ashtapad from the IRS LISS-IV data.
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Locating probable unexplored Archaeological site...
