How did ancient builders manage to make sun shine into temples?

Subject: How did ancient builders manage to make sun shine into temples?

Date: Fri Apr 7 19:51:29 2006
Posted by Ananda
Grade level: grad (science) School: WINS
City: Tirupati State/Province: Andhra Pradesh Country: India
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 1144464689.As

Message:


Many temples in india have this feature built into the architecture, where on a 
particular day the sun shines on to the idol at a particular time. What I want 
to know is how does one go about doing this?

Re: How did ancient builders manage to make sun shine into temples?

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