Josh Gates Explores India's Lonar Lake's connections to alien life and Hindu Mythological Story of Lord Vishnu as Daityasudan on Legendary Locations: Indian Actor Grish Majethiya played the role of Young Lord Vishnu

On Legendary Locations (American TV Show), Josh Gates travels to some of the most prominent destinations, ruined cities, magnificent temples, and the most storied places on the planet. He immerses himself in the legends that made these intriguing locations famous and explores them through his unique point of view.

This time Josh explores a lake in India with connections to alien life. Lonar Crater Lake is a saline soda lake located at Lonar in Buldana district, Maharashtra, India, which was created by a meteor impact during the Pleistocene Epoch. A 2019 study, conducted by IIT Bombay found that the minerals in the lake soil are very similar to the minerals found in moon rocks brought back during the Apollo Program.

This Lake was first mentioned in few religious texts such as Skanda Purana, Padma Purana and the Aaina-i-Akbari. The Hindu Mythological Story of the Lonar Lake states that a demon named Lonasur became insolent and devastated surrounding countries. He even challenged gods. The people appealed to Lord Vishnu to destroy him. He therefore assumed the form of handsome youth named Daityasudan and could find from demon’s sisters about demon’s hiding place, he removed the lid of the den and destroyed the demon. The present Lonar Lake is claimed to be the den of the demon; the water was mixed with his blood and the salts occurred in the water through his flesh.

Many temples surround the lake, most of which stand in ruins today, except for the temple of Daitya Sudan at the centre of the Lonar town, which was built in honour of Vishnu’s victory over the giant Lonasur. It is a fine example of early Hindu architecture.
Daitya Sudan Temple located near the lake is a Vishnu temple dated to the Chalukya Dynasty which ruled Central and Southern India between the 6th and 12th centuries. The temple measures 105 ft. long by 84.5 ft. broad. It is a tree chamber temple, the inner most being garbh grub, the sanctum sanctorum, where the idol of lord vishnu standing atop lavanasura (lavana=salt + asura = demon) is there. The second chamber is called antarl where individual pooja are performed, on the roof of this block one can see beautiful cravings of puranic stories viz. Killing of Lavanasur by Lord Krishna and appearance of Dhar of Lonar; story of Kansa and Krishna, story of Narasimha and HiranKashyap and lastly raskrida. The outermost chamber is called as sabhamandap which is meant for group offerings and performance. This portion as well as the entrance gate does not match the style and construction elements of the temple overall. The brickwork might have been added later to the damaged or unfinished temple, which may be attributed to various invasions post the 10th century.

The role of Young Lord Vishnu (Daityasudan) in the show is played by the actor Grish Majethiya. (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9171659/)

This is the 6th episode of the 2nd season of the show, first aired on 23 June 2019 by Travel Channel
It is currently available to watch on Discovery Plus, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and few other OTT Platforms across the world. https://bit.ly/LegendaryLocations

Lonar Crater Lake, Lonar, Buldana District, Maharashtra, India - 443302
https://buldhana.nic.in/en/tourist-place/lonar-crater/

On Legendary Locations, Host Josh Gates travels to some of the most prominent destinations, ruined cities and magnificent temples across the world.
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