THE PROCESS OF FIXING THE DIRECTIONS

THE PROCESS OF FIXING THE DIRECTIONS

Knowledge treads on new pastures in every generation and lays foundation for new life styles. In the progress of the stream of knowledge the world has undergone new changes and acquired modernity.
Today there is no need to boast about sky scrapers and towers, because manifold modern implements help man. But our ancestors built many great buildings, forts wonderfully when the doors for progress were not opened. They proceeded depending on the Sun as centre. But then they made north direction as standard. This tradition has been there from times immemorial. The great pyramid built some 16 kms from Kairo before 12000 B.C. was built with north as the standard. In the same way Tajmahal in India and Tirupati Temple in Andhra were built on this standard.