Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated From the Sanscrit
The Jagamohan or Audience Hall of the Temple to Surya at Konarak has come to be more specifically known as the Black Pagoda. This has probably come about through some association of the epithet hala, meaning black, which the Hindoos apply to all deserted or desecrated religious edifices. The term is certainly not derived from the general color of the building, for the stone of which it is built is light The name Konarak or Konarka comes from the vernacularized forms of two Sanskrit, words (kona, corner, and arka the sun implying the corner of the sun. I.e the corner of the world dedicated to the sun. It is thus to be surmised that this locality had for ages been associated in men's minds as especially blessed by the sun. And that long before this temple was built Konarak had been a prominent center of Sun-worship.
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