Martand Sun Temple
- Also known as Pandou Laida, it is a Hindu temple dedicated to Surya (the chief solar deity in Hinduism) located five miles from Anantnag in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
- It was built by the third ruler of the Karkota Dynasty, Lalitaditya Muktapida, in the 8th century CE.
- It is now in ruins, as it was destroyed by the orders of Muslim ruler Sikandar Shah Miri.
- From the ruins and related archaeological findings, it can be said it was an excellent specimen of Kashmiri architecture, which had blended the Gandharan, Gupta and Chinese forms of ....
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