Is Apsarasas Kangri taller than Gangkhar Puensum?
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Gangkhar Puensum Gangkhar Puensum (Dzongkha: གངས་དཀར་སྤུན་གསུམ་ "Kangkar Punsum ", alternatively, Gangkar Punsum or Gankar Punzum) is the highest mountain in Bhutan and a strong candidate for the highest unclimbed mountain in the world with an elevation of 7570 m and a prominence of 2995 m . Its name means "White Peak of the Three Spiritual Brothers".
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Apsarasas Kangri Apsarasas Kangri is a mountain in the Siachen Karakoram range. With an elevation of 7245 m it is the 96th highest mountain in the world. Apsarasas Kangri is located on the border between Xinjiang, China and the Siachen Glacier region, controlled by India and claimed by Pakistan.
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Sri Navaladi Karuppannaswami Temple – Mohanur Sri Navaladi Karuppannaswami Temple – Mohanur is a 2000-year-old temple in Mohanur, Namakkal District, India. Its presiding deity is Karuppu Sami, also known as Navaladian and Judge Durai and known as Pattamarathan. Its reputation is Swayambu known for two trees, the "Holy tree" known as Novel tree and the "Special tree", known as Neem tree. Its scriptural name is Mahanur. Dhananjayan Prasath 1987.
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Tirumalai (Jain complex) Tirumalai (lit. "the holy mountain"; also later Arhasugiri, lit. "the excellent mountain of the Arha[t]"; Tamil Engunavirai-Tirumalai, lit. "the holy mountain of the Arhar") is a Jain temple and cave complex dating from at least the 9th century that is located northwest of Polur in Tamil Nadu, southeast India. The complex includes 3 Jain caves, 2 Jain temples and a 16 meter high sculpture of Tirthankara Neminatha thought to date from the 12th century that is the tallest Jain image in Tamil Nadu.
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Sankarananda Matha Sankarananda Matha(Lat. 20 14’ 41" N., Long. 85 50’ 06" E., Elev. 75 ft) is located in Uttaradaraja Badu Sahi, on the southern embankment of Bindusagar tank in Old Town, Bhubaneswar. It is situated in the left side of the Sankarananda Street branching from the Ratha road. This is a most dilapidated monastery. It is a branch of Sankarananda Matha at Puri. Sankara Sivananda Saraswati was the founder of the matha. Some of the previous matha mahantas are Sachidananda Saraswati, Balabrahmanda Saraswati, and Ramakrishnananda Saraswati. It has got multiple ownership. The Matha is under the control of Endowment Department but it is in a bad state of preservation. Balabrahmanda Saraswati is the present mahanta of the Matha. Only a shrine is in use and under worship.
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Devi Gali Devi Gali (Urdu: ‎ ) (also known as Aamir Hussain Shaheed Gali abbreviated as Shaheed Gali) is a village and a tourist attraction in Poonch District of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is located 8 km from Hajira, 12 km from Banjosa, and 32 km from Rawalakot an altitude of 5480 ft .
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Somabaresvara Siva Temple The Somabaresvara Siva Temple is located in the Kapilesvara temple precinct (Lat- 200 15’ 53" N., Long- 850 51’ 40" E., Elev- 56 ft). The enshrined deity is a Sivalingam over a square yonipitha made of sand stone. The temple has a vimana in pidha order. It is triratha on plan and the temple is buried up to the baranda. The temple is facing towards west. The remaining part of the bada measure 0.78 m in height. The gandi measures 0.75 m having three receding tiers. Mastaka measures 0.50 m in height. The doorjamb measures 0.57 m in height x 0.38 m in width and the sanctum is 0.27 m below the ground level. The cella measures 0.75 square m whereas the vimana measures 1.15 square m. The temple is surrounded by Beharana mandapa in the west at a distance of 7.50 m, Kapila kunda in the east. Southern entrance of the Natamandapa of Kapilesvara temple in the north, Kala Bhairava temple is at a distance of 1.55 m.
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Kangphu Kang Kangphu Kang is a mountain in the Himalayas. At 7204 m above sea level it is the 107th highest mountain in the world. The peak is located on the border between Tibet, China and Bhutan.
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Gangesvara Siva Temple Gangesvara Siva Temple (lat. 20° 14’27" N., long. 85° 50’ 12"E., elev. 73 ft) is situated within a precinct on the left side of the Ganges–Yamuna road (leading from Talabazar Chowk to the Ganges-Yamuna temple) Old Town, Bhubaneswar. It is located at a distance of 200 metres north-east of Lingaraj temple, 50 metres north of Lakhesvara temple across the road, 200 metres south of
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Jhitakaiya South Jhitakaiya is a town and Village Development Committee, near by Dewapur- Chowk/Pokhara/Mandir/School/Police Station and Pashah River, Bara District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 7,235.
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Pusnâ Pusnâ or Spring Cake Festival is one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Hajong people on or around January 14. In 2016, the festival falls on January 15. Pusnâ is a solar event making one of the few traditional Hajong festivals which fall on the same date in the Gregorian calendar every year, that is January 14, with some exceptions when the festival is celebrated on January 13 or 15. It is the celebration of Sankranthi, with feasts lasting for a week. Traditionally, Pusnâ is also a time for the family to get together. One activity that occurs during these get-togethers is the making and eating of Pi-thâ. Pi-thâs are made of glutinous rice flour.
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Patasar Patasar is headquarter village of Sankhar village development committee which is in ward number 7 of Syangja District, Gandaki Zone, Western Region, Nepal. According to the Nepal Census 2011 it had a total population of 538, with 216 males and 322 females residing in 124 individual households.
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Pura, Kushtagi Pura (Kannada: ಪುರ ) is a village in the Kushtagi taluk of Koppal district in Karnataka state, India. Pura is famous for the Somanatheshwara temple which is also known as kotilinga temple located in the village. Built during the Vijayanagara Empire this temple contains ancient edicts. Pura is 35 km from Kushtagi and 12 km from Tavaragara.
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Anantashayana Vishnu Anantashayi Vishnu, also known as Anantashayana Vishnu (both literally "sleeping on the serpent Shesha"), is a large open air rock relief of the Hindu god Vishnu, carved during the early 9th Century in the Saranga village, under the Parjang police station, in Dhenkanal district of Orissa, India. It is located on the left bank of the Brahmani River. It is the largest such exposed rock cut structure in the horizontal position measuring 15.4 m in length, in the whole of India, while the largest standing image is of Gomateshwara in Southern India. It is a protected monument maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India, Bhubaneswar Circle. Worship is still offered to the four armed reclining Vishnu.
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Nabakalebara Nabakalebara (Odia: ନବ କଳେବର ) is symbolic recreation of wooden forms of the four deities at Jagannath Temple, Puri. In Jagannath cult this is a periodical renewal of the wooden forms of Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Sudarshana. The occasion occurs every 8th or 12th or 19th year of the previous Nabakalebara.
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Gosagarsevara Mandapa This Mandapa is located within the Gosagaresvara siva temple precinct, Old Town, Bhubaneswar. It is a lofty platform (Mandapa) provided with a flight of steps. There are sixteen pillars that support the superstructure of the flat roof. Construction of a Mandapa within a precinct is a feature of Orissan temple ritual and architecture. These Mandapas usually have sixteen pillars which are also noticed in the Hazari Mandapa in Kapilesvara temple precinct, Jalesvara Mandapa in the Jalesvara temple precinct of Kalarahanga and MuktiMandapa in the Jagannatha temple precinct of Puri.
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Jan Latalski (Indian historical figure) Jan Latalski was a prominent leader of the masses in the Puri District, famous for the Jagannath and Konark Temples.
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Burang Town Burang, known as Purang in Tibetan, is the administrative center of Burang County, Ngari Prefecture of in the Tibet Autonomous Region "(TAR)" (China). The town lies at 4,755 metres (13,205 feet) altitude in the valley of the Karnali River. To the south are Gurla Mandhata (Mount Namonanyi) and the Abi Gamin ranges. Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash are to the north. This region is the mythological and actual river nexus of the Himalaya with sources of the Indus, Ganges and Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra all within 110 km of Burang.
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Kinnaur Kailash The Kinnaur Kailash (locally known as "Kinner Kailash") is a mountain in the Kinnaur district of the Indian state Himachal Pradesh. The Kinnaur Kailash has a height of 4650 meters and is considered as sacred by both Hindu and Buddhist Kinnauris. This mountain is sometimes confused with the Mount Kailash in Tibet.
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Sonarang Twin Temples Sonarang Twin Temples are two Hindu temples located in Sonarang village of Tongibari Upazila of Munshiganj district, Bangladesh. The western temple is taller than the eastern one, about 15 m high.
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Dudhsagar Falls Dudhsagar Falls (literally "Sea of Milk" ) is a four-tiered waterfall located on the Mandovi River in the border of the Indian state of Goa and Karnataka. It is 60 km from Panaji by road and is located on the Madgaon-Belgavi rail route about 46 km east of Madgaon and 80 km south of Belgavi. Dudhsagar Falls is amongst India's tallest waterfalls with a height of 310 m (1017 feet) and an average width of 30 metres (100 feet).
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Ganga puja Ganga puja is a religious festival of the northeastern state of Tripura in India. The tribal Tripuri people worship the Goddess of the river, and pray to be saved from epidemic diseases and for the well-being of pregnant women. The celebration involves building a temple of bamboo in the middle of the river or a water stream. The River Ganges, known locally as Ganga, is one of the fourteen prime deities worshipped in this region. The festival is popularly celebrated throughout the state somewhere in March or April, with its date fixed according to the Hindu Lunisolar calendar.