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    Natural wonder where a 1000 ton Rock sits atop another. Credited with being done by Lord Krishna the Hindu God. Read the fascinating story

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    Krishna's Butter Ball--Mahabalipuram, India

    This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by


    the gods.
    Dr Uday Dokras

    Srishti Dokras, ARCHITECT


    F O R E V E R ( H O P E F U L L Y ) P E R C H E D O N A steep rock slope in the historic town
    of Mahabalipuram, India, the massive round boulder known as Krishna’s Butter Ball refuses to
    give in to gravity or the shoves of tourists.
    The giant boulder appears to be frozen in its roll down the hill it sits on, and no one is quite sure
    why. The huge boulder is likely a glacial erratic that got stranded in a serendipitous position on
    the hill, but local legend has another version of the story. According to Hindu mythology, when
    the great god Krishna was just a baby, he was fond of stealing butter. Following this tradition,
    the big orange stone has been likened to a giant dollop of purloined butter that the god dropped.
    Reinforcing the stone’s strangely balanced position, the slippery stone slope is used by local
    children as a slide. Today Krishna’s Butter Ball is a popular tourist attraction. Visitors to the site
    love to try to get behind the stone and try to push it down the hill. So far no human power has
    been able to budge the buttery boulder.

    Sometimes the local goats are seen to climb on top of it. It’s adorable.
    It is a gigantic granite boulder resting on a short incline in the historical coastal resort town
    of Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu state of India. The boulder is approximately 6 meters high and
    5 meters wide and weighs around 250 tons. It seems to float and barely stand on a slope on top of
    1.2-meter (4 ft) high plinth which is a naturally eroded hill, and is said to have been at the same
    place for 1200 years. A part of the boulder on top back has eroded away, making it look like a
    half-spherical rock from the back, while it looks round shaped from other three sides
    Since it is part of the Group of Monuments at Mamallapuram, a UNESCO World Heritage
    Site built during 7th- and 8th-century CE as Hindu religious monuments by the Pallava dynasty,
    it is a popular tourist attraction. It is listed as a protected national monument by
    the Archeological Survey of India.
    Butter well, 40 meter north of Krishna's Butterball.
    The original name, Vaan Irai Kal, according to the Atlas Obscura, translates from Tamil as
    "Stone of Sky God”. According to Hindu mythology, lord Krishna often stole butter from his
    mother's butter handi; this may have led to the namesake of the boulder.[1] In 1969, a tour-guide
    is said to credit its present name, Krishna's Butterball, to Indira Gandhi who was on a tour of the
    city.

    The Pallava king Narasimhavarman (630–668 CE) also made a failed attempt to move the
    boulder. The Indian Tamil king Raja Raja Chola (985 and 1014 CE) was inspired by the balance
    of this massive stone boulder and it led to the creation of never falling mud dolls called Tanjavur
    Bommai, which having a half-spherical base tends to come back to its original position every
    time one tries to make it fall. In 1908, then-governor of the city Arthur Havelock made an
    attempt to use seven elephants to move the boulder from its position due to safety concerns, but
    with no success. On October 12th 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese
    President Xi Jinping took a photo in front of Krishna's Butterball holding hands during their
    second "informal summit".
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    Krishna's Butter Ball, side profile viewed from east t west.

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