A Year to Bring Down What Took a Generation to Build

It took a generation to build and a year to pull down.

What Lalitaditya built

Lalitaditya Muktapida raised the Martand Sun Temple in the eighth century CE, at the scale his reign had already reached.

A great pillared courtyard around a central shrine to Surya, the sun.

It stood on high flat ground near present-day Anantnag, chosen for the view it commanded over the whole Kashmir valley below.