The Subtracted Mountain

Twelve hundred years ago in the Deccan, a crew of artisans carved a complete freestanding temple out of a living basalt cliff from the summit downward — two hundred thousand tonnes removed, no mortar, no second draft. The checkable story — copper plates, worker-day arithmetic, the 2024–25 laser and LiDAR surveys, and the viral 'Russian scans' claim examined honestly — told so the true version out-wonders the legends.

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