Evidence of Hinduism in countries

other than India

1.Was the Christian Vatican originally a Shiva
temple?

In these pictures take a look at the tripundra (three lines worn by

Lord Shiva as tilak). The word 'Vatican' itself is derived from the
Sanskrit word Vatika, which means Vedic cultural or religious
centers, such as Yagna-Vatika. Such words and discoveries prove
that the Vatican was a Hindu (Vedic) religious center before its
incumbent was forced to accept Christianity from 1st century AD.
Also, according to some reports, a Shiva linga was found during
the excavation and is kept for display at a Museum in Rome.
(http://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/mysterious-cases-of-hindutemples-that-will-shock-you)
Siva Linga at Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Vatican City

This Siva Lingam is exhibited in Gregorian Etruscan Museum,

Vatican City. It has the most important Etruscan collection in
Rome, starting with early Iron Age objects from the 9th century
BC.

2.KABA AND MECCA

AND THEIR ROOTS IN HINDUISM

The Shiv Ling at The Kaba. It was broken in seven

places and now is held together by a silver band.

The Black Stone which is the Shiv Emblem (also known as Sange
Aswad which is a corrupted form of the Sanskrit word Sanghey
Ashweta--meaning non-white stone) still survives in the Kaba as
the central object of Islamic veneration. All other Vedic Idols
could be found buried in the precincts or trampled underfoot in
labyrinthine subterranean corridors if archaeological excavations
are undertaken. The Black Stone has been badly mutilated, its
carved base has disappeared and the stone itself is broken at
seven places. It's parts are now held together by a silver band
studded with silver nails. It lies half buried in the South Eastern
portion of the Kaba Wall. The term Kaba itself is a corruption of
the Sanskrit word Gabha (Garbha + Graha) which means
Sanctum.

Kaba itself was dedicated to the Moon God Somnath alias Shiv
and the word Somnath was corrupted to Manat. The famous Black

Stone is none other than the Shiv Ling of Makkeshwar alias

Mecca. Lord Shiva is always shown with a crescent Moon on his
head and every Shiva temple is supposed to have a sacred water
spring representing the Ganges. The Crescent Moon pinnacle of
the Kaba and the Zamzam spring (actually Zamza from Ganga)
are irrefutable testaments to the Vedic origins of the Kaba.

Maqam-E-Ibrahim or more appropriately the pedestal of Brahma.

This shrine is actually the pedestal of Brahma. Notice that the

word, Ibrahim is actually a corruption of the word, Brahma. The
octogonal grill which is a Vedic design, protects the holy
footprints which represent the start of the creation nearly 2000
million years ago. Before it was captured by the Muslims it was an
international shrine of the Vedic trinity.

The text of the crucial Vikramaditya inscription, found inscribed

on a gold dish hung inside the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, is found
recorded on page 315 of a volume known as Sayar-ul-Okul
treasured in the Makhtab-e-Sultania library in Istanbul, Turkey.
Rendered in free English the inscription says:
"Fortunate are those who were born (and lived) during king
Vikrams reign. He was a noble, generous dutiful ruler, devoted to

the welfare of his subjects. But at that time we Arabs, oblivious of

God, were lost in sensual pleasures. Plotting and torture were
rampant. The darkness of ignorance had enveloped our country.
Like the lamb struggling for her life in the cruel paws of a wolf we
Arabs were caught up in ignorance. The entire country was
enveloped in a darkness so intense as on a new moon night. But
the present dawn and pleasant sunshine of education is the result
of the favour of the noble king Vikramaditya whose benevolent
supervision did not lose sight of us- foreigners as we were. He
spread his sacred religion amongst us and sent scholars whose
brilliance shone like that of the sun from his country to ours.
These scholars and preceptors through whose benevolence we
were once again made cognisant of the presence of God,
introduced to His sacred existence and put on the road of Truth,
had come to our country to preach their religion and impart
education at king Vikramadityas behest."

As the pilgrim proceeds towards Mecca he is asked to shave his

head and beard and to don special sacred attire that consists of
two seamless sheets of white cloth. One is to be worn round the
waist and the other over the shoulders. Both these rites are
remnants of the old Vedic practice of entering Hindu temples
clean- and with holy seamless white sheets.

Another Hindu tradition associated with the Kaaba is that of the

sacred stream Ganga (sacred waters of the Ganges river).
According to the Hindu tradition Ganga is also inseparable from
the Shiva emblem as the crescent moon. Wherever there is a Siva
emblem, Ganga must co-exist. True to that association a sacred
fount exists near the Kaaba. Its water is held sacred because it
has been traditionally regarded as Ganga since pre-Islamic times
(Zam-Zam water).

Semitic comes from the Sanskrit word Smritic. Arabs followed the
ancient Vedic Smritis such as Manu-Smriti as their revered
religious guides and thus they were identified as Smritic which
has been corrupted into Semitic.

For a long time the Uttarapath (Northern Highway) was the

international highway to the North of India. It was via Uttarapath
that Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries drew their
spiritual, educational and material sustenance from India.
Besides, this Sea-links were formed with India at least 800 years
before the advent of Islam. Basra was the ancient gateway to
India because it was at this port that the Arab lands recieved
Indian goods and visitors. At that time the spoken language was
Sanskrit, which later dwindled into the local variation that we
now call Arabic. The proof of this is that thousands of words that
were derived from Sanskrit still survive in Arabic today.

It might come as a stunning revelation to many that the word

ALLAH itself is Sanskrit. In Sanskrit language Allah, Akka and
Amba are synonyms. They signify a goddess or mother. The term
ALLAH forms part of Sanskrit chants invoking goddess Durga,
also known as Bhavani, Chandi and Mahishasurmardini. The
Islamic word for God is., therefore, not an innovation but the
ancient Sanskrit appellation retained and continued by Islam.
Allah means mother or goddess and mother goddess.
One Koranic verse is an exact translation of a stanza in the
Yajurveda. This was pointed out by the great research scholar
Pandit Satavlekar of Pardi in one of his articles.
[Note: Another scholar points out that the following teaching
from the Koran is exactly similar to the teaching of the Kena
Upanishad (1.7).
The Koran:"Sight perceives Him not. But He perceives men's
sights; for He is the knower of secrets , the Aware."
Kena Upanishad:"That which cannot be seen by the eye but

through which the eye itself sees, know That to be Brahman (God)
and not what people worship here (in the manifested world)."
A simplified meaning of both the above verses reads:
God is one and that He is beyond man's sensory experience.]

The Muslim month Safar signifying the extra month (Adhik

Maas) in the Hindu calendar. The Muslim month Rabi is the
corrupt form of Ravi meaning the sun because Sanskrit V
changes into Prakrit B (Prakrit being the popular version of
Sanskrit language). The Muslim sanctity for Gyrahwi Sharif is
nothing but the Hindu Ekadashi (Gyrah = elevan or Gyaarah).
Both are identical in meaning.The Islamic practice of Bakari Eed
derives from the Go-Medh and Ashva-Medh Yagnas or sacrifices of
Vedic times. Eed in Sanskrit means worship. The Islamic word Eed
for festive days, signifying days of worship, is therefore a pure
Sanskrit word. The word MESH in the Hindu zodiac signifies a
lamb. Since in ancient times the year used to begin with the entry
of the sun in Aries, the occasion was celebrated with mutton
feasting. That is the origin of the Bakari Eed festival.
[Note: The word Bakari is an Indian language word for a goat.]

Shabibarat is the corrupt form of Shiva Vrat and Shiva Ratra.

The ancient Vedic scripture Harihareswar Mahatmya mentions

that Lord Vishnu's footprints are consecrated in Mecca. An
important clue to this fact is that Muslims call this holy precint
Haram which is a deviation of the Sanskrit term Hariyam, i.e. the
precint of Lord Hari alias Lord Vishnu. The relevant stanza reads:
"Ekam Padam Gayayantu MAKKAYAANTU Dwitiyakam Tritiyam
Sthapitam Divyam Muktyai Shuklasya Sannidhau"
The allusion is to the Vamana incarnation of Lord Vishnu whose
blessed feet were consecrated at three holy sites, namely Gaya,
Mecca and Shukla Teertha. Worshipping such carved, holy foot
impressions is a holy Vedic custom which convert Muslims are
inadvertently perpetuating. But in doing this they delude
themselves and mislead others that these foot-impressions which
are on reverential display in several mosques and tombs around
the world are in fact Muhammad's own. There are several snags
in this argument. Firstly worshipping a foot -impression amounts
to idolatry and should therefore be taboo for a true Muslim.
Secondly Muhhamad disclaimed having performed any miracles.

Therefore there can be no foot-impression of his on stone. Thirdly

foot-impressions must always be in pairs like shoes. Yet in most
of these shrines, it is usually a single footprint which suggests
that Muhammad walked on only one foot. Another question that
crops up is whether the foot-impression is of the same size and
foot in all the shrines. The fact appears to be that when the Vedic
Kaba shrine in Mecca was invaded by Muhammad, the pairs of
foot impressions of Vedic deities there were plundered and later
traded to the gullible and devout as Muhammad's own footprints
for some favour, reward or personal gain by unscrupulous clergy.
That is why they are single and not in pairs.

Hareem is Arabic for women plural. Hormah is woman. Hareem

is the women of the house. Hormah comes from Arabic haram,
holy, sacrosanct, sanctuary. "Most surely the first house
appointed for men is the one at Bekka (Mecca), blessed and a
guidance for the nations. In it are clear signs, the standing place
of Ibrahim ..". The Kuran talks about Bekka (the older name of
Mecca) being the first house of worship appointed for mankind. It
also addresses this place as Umm ul-Qur i.e., Mother of the
Settlements. The actual structure of the Kaaba has been
demolished and rebuilt several times in the course of its history.
(http://jheevaprakaash367.blogspot.in/2010_09_01_archive.html)

the kaaba in mecca is actualy SHIVA LINGA.the word allah itself is a sanskrit word
meaning goddess.to this day there r inscriptions in sanskrit language on the
kaaba.As the pilgrim proceeds towards Mecca he is asked to shave his head and
beard and to don special sacred attire that consists of two seamless sheets of
white cloth. One is to be worn round the waist and the other over the shoulders.
Both these rites are remnants of the old Vedic practice of entering Hindu temples

clean- and with holy seamless white sheets. The main shrine in Mecca, which
houses the Siva emblem, is known as the Kaaba. It is clothed in a black shroud.
That custom also originates from the days when it was thought necessary to
discourage its recapture by camouflaging it.Muslim pilgrims visiting the Kaaba
temple go around it seven times. In no other mosque does the circumambulation
prevail. Hindus invariably circumambulate around their deities. This is yet
another proof that the Kaaba shrine is a pre-Islamic Indian Shiva temple where
the Hindu practice of circumambulation is still meticulously observed.The
practice of taking seven steps- known as Saptapadi in Sanskrit- is associated
with Hindu marriage ceremony and fire worship. The culminating rite in a Hindu
marriage enjoins upon the bride and groom to go round the sacred fire four times
(but misunderstood by many as seven times). Since Makha means fire, the
seven circumambulations also prove that Mecca was the seat of Indian fireworship in the West Asia.
The Islamic practice of Bakari Eed derives from the Go-Medh and Ashva-Medh
Yagnas or sacrifices of Vedic times. Eed in Sanskrit means worship. The Islamic
word Eed for festive days, signifying days of worship, is therefore a pure Sanskrit
word. The word MESH in the Hindu zodiac signifies a lamb. Since in ancient times
the year used to begin with the entry of the sun in Aries, the occasion was
celebrated with mutton feasting. That is the origin of the Bakari Eed festival.
[Note:The word Bakari is an Indian language word]

The Islamic term 'Eed-ul-Fitr' derives from the 'Eed of Piters' that is worship of
forefathers in Sanskrit tradition. In India, Hindus commemorate their ancestors
during the Pitr-Paksha that is the fortnight reserved for their remembrance. The
very same is the significance of 'Eed-ul-Fitr' (worship of forefathers).The Islamic
practice of observing the moon rise before deciding on celebrating the occasion
derives from the Hindu custom of breaking fast on Sankranti and Vinayaki
Chaturthi only after sighting the moon.Barah Vafat, the Muslim festival for
commemorating those dead in battle or by weapons, derives from a similar
Sanskrit tradition because in Sanskrit 'Phiphaut' is 'death'. Hindus observe
Chayal Chaturdashi in memory of those who have died in battle.The word Arabia
is itself the abbreviation of a Sanskrit word. The original word is 'Arabasthan'.
Since Prakrit 'B' is Sanskrit 'V' the original Sanskrit name of the land is
'Arvasthan'. 'Arva' in Sanskrit means a horse. Arvasthan signifies a land of
horses., and as well all know, Arabia is famous for its horses.Four months of the
year are regarded as very sacred in Islamic custom. The devout are enjoined to
abstain from plunder and other evil deeds during that period. This originates in
the Chaturmasa i.e., the four-month period of special vows and austerities in
Hindu tradition. Shabibarat is the corrupt form of Shiva Vrat and Shiva Ratra.
Since the Kaaba has been an important centre of Shiva (Siva) worship from times
immemorial, the Shivaratri festival used to be celebrated there with great gusto.
It is that festival which is signified by the Islamic word Shabibarat. Since Eed
means worship and Griha means 'house', the Islamic word Idgah signifies a
'House of worship' which is the exact Sanskrit connotation of the term. Similarly
the word 'Namaz' derives from two Sanskrit roots 'Nama' and 'Yajna' (NAMa
yAJna) meaning bowing and worshipping.

All Arabic copies of the Koran have the mysterious figure 786 imprinted on
them . No Arabic scholar has been able to determine the choice of this particular
number as divine. It is an established fact that Muhammad was illiterate
therefore it is obvious that he would not be able to differentiate numbers from
letters. This magical number is none other than the Vedic holy letter OM
written in Sanskrit. Anyone who knows Sanskrit can try reading the symbol for
OM backwards in the Arabic way and magically the numbers 786 will appear!
Muslims in their ignorance simply do not realise that this special number is
nothing more than the holiest of Vedic symbols misread.U can try reading it
urself.look at the figure OM in a mirror and you can make out the Devnagari
(Sanskrit-Hindi) numerals 7-8-6
24 Dec 2012
Posted by Kattar Hindu
(http://kattar-hindu.blogspot.in/2012/12/makka-madina-is-shiv-temple-proof.html)

3.The Lost Hindu empire of Cambodia

A visit to Cambodia is recommended or may even be de rigueur

for any Indian with an interest in the erstwhile history of India.
There are several hundred Hindu and Buddhist temple ruins
throughout the countryside, especially around the town of Siem
Reap near the large lake Tonle Sap. Siem Reap is the heart of the
country. Here is where the splendid temple Angkor Wat has stood
for nearly nine hundred years.

The sprawling temple spreads over a one square mile area. Long
walls with stories of Hindu mythology are sculpted as bas-reliefs.
It is a magnificent temple complex, constructed in the form of
mythological Mount Meru - the Hindu center of the Universe. The
brilliant paint used to enhance the reliefs has faded but the
architecture and beauty are still preserved. The sheer magnitude
of the temple complex is impressive. All the gods of the Hindu
pantheon are represented in temple sculpture. Shiva and Vishnu
were held in high esteem.

4. Ancient Tamil Brahmi script found in Egypt

A broken storage jar with inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi script has

been excavated at Quseir-al-Qadim, an ancient port with a Roman
settlement on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. This Tamil Brahmi
script has been dated to first century B.C. The same inscription is
incised twice on the opposite sides of the jar. The inscription
reads paanai oRi, that is, pot (suspended) in a rope net. A pottery
specialist at the British Museum, London, identified the
fragmentary vessel as a storage jar made in India.

5. Potsherd with Tamil-Brahmi script found in

Oman

A Tamil-Brahmi script inscribed on a potsherd, which was found at

the Khor Rori area in Oman, has come to light now. The script
reads nantai kiran and it can be dated to first century CE, that
is, 1900 years before the present. The discovery in the ancient
city of Sumhuram has opened a new chapter in understanding the
maritime trade of the Indian Ocean countries, according to
specialists in history.

6. Large ancient Hindu temple found in Bali

Construction workers in Bali have discovered what is thought to

be the biggest ancient Hindu temple ever found on the
Indonesian island, archaeologists said. The workers were digging
a drain in the island's capital Denpasar at a Hindu study centre
when they came across the remains of the stone temple. They
reported the discovery to the Bali archaeology office, which then
unearthed substantial foundations of a structure that the
excavation team believes dates from around the 13th to 15th
centuries.

7. Ruins of ancient temple found in Yogyakarta,

Indonesia

The ruins of an ancient building discovered at the Indonesian

Islamic University in Yogyakarta have been confirmed as a temple
to worship the Hindu gods Shiva and Ganesha. Linga, the symbol
for the worship of Shiva, and yoni, a Sanskrit symbol for divine
passage or place of birth, were found in the area.

8. Mystery of Hanuman: Lost city of the 'Monkey

God' found in Central America!

La Ciudad Blanca, Spanish for The White City is a legendary

settlement said to be located in the Mosquitia region of eastern
Honduras in Central America. Researcher Charles Lindberg,
during one of his flights over the jungles of Mosquitia in
Hondurus, claimed caught a glimpse of what he thought was the
Lost City of the Monkey God where, legend says that local
people worshipped huge Monkey Sculptures.
A hidden refuge of gods?

Theodore Morde an American adventurer, worked on the tip

given by Lindberg and claimed that he had finally found the lost
city in 1940. He claimed sacrifices were made by local Indians to a
gigantic idol of an ape. However, he was killed by a car in London
before he could announce its exact location. Morde had originally
been looking for the White City, a hidden refuge of gods and gold
first reported by Hernan Cortez.

Discovering the statue of Hanuman

Researchers from the University of Houston and the National

Center for Airborne Laser Mapping flew over the Mosquitia region
and revealed that there is evidence of a plaza dotted with ancient
pyramids now reclaimed by the jungle on the east end of
Hondurus. On the western end of Hondurus is the city of Copan
the site of the ancient Howler Monkey God statue. This monkey
god that Westerners are talking about can actually be related to
Lord Hanuman.

The Ramayan connection

Ramayanas Kishkinda Kanda descibes about Trident of Peru,

South America etc and Yuddha Kanda (War Episode) describes
about Hanuman travelling to Paatala Loka (Central America and
Brazil, which are on other side of India in globe) and meeting his
son Makaradhwaja, who resembles him. After killing the King of
Paatala, Hanuman makes his son Makaradhwaja as ruler of that
kingdom and he is being worshipped as God since then.

This could be one of the reasons why ancient Americans of central

and south paint red color to all their gods statues. The discovery
of Vedic Havan Kund in peru is also one more evidence of Vedic
influence in this region. After his expedition, Morder described
traveling miles through swamps, up rivers, and over mountains
before coming across ruins that he interpreted as the remains of
a walled city. He claimed to have evidence of large, ruined
buildings and said that his Paya guides told him that there once
was a temple with a large staircase leading to a statue of a
Monkey God.

The discovery of the ruins

Morde speculated that the deity was an American parallel to the

Hindu deity Hanuman, who he says was the equivalent of
Americas own Paul Bunyan in his amazing feats of strength and
daring. Morde was told that the temple had a long, staired
approach lined with stone effigies of monkeys. The heart of the
Temple was a high stone dais on which was the statue of the
Monkey God himself - before it was a place of sacrifice.

The artifacts from the site include Lord Hanuman

Morde and Brown brought back thousands of artifacts, most of

which became part of the collection of the Heye Foundation
Museum of the American Indian in New York City. These included
metal razors, stone blades, a flute, stone statuary, and stone
utensils. Morde and Brown also reported having found evidence
of gold, silver, platinum, and oil and are now at display in National
Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

9. Munneswaram Temple in Munneswaram, Sri

Lanka

This temple is said to have been in existence since the days to

the Ramayana. It is said that Lord Ram prayed to Lord Shiva here
after he won against Ravana. It is a temple complex comprising of
five temples. Of these the one dedicated to Lord Shiva is the
central and the biggest one. This temple has been destroyed
twice in the past by the Portuguese before it was finally handed
over to the Jesuits who rebuilt it.

10. Mukti Gupteshwar Temple in Minto, Australia

The 13th and the last Jyothirlinga was gifted to Australia in 1999
by the then King of Nepal -- the late Birendra Bir Bikram Shah
Dev. Together with this was gifted 7996 hymns arranged in eight
volumes especially to be sung in praise of this deity. According to
the scriptures, construction of this lingam had to be in the
southern hemisphere which symbolised the 'mouth of the snake',
the snake being like an ornament around Lord Shiva's neck.
Hence Australia was chosen. This temple's foundation was laid on
Shivratri in 1999 in Minto -- Sydney's suburb. Its uniqueness lies
in the fact that it is the only cave temple to have been
constructed by man. Together with the 13th Jyotirlinga, the
temple also houses the replicas of the other 12 Jyotirlingas.

11. New finds take archaeologists closer to

Krishna, in Afghanisthan

The conch and the Sudarshana Chakra are unmistakable.

Although the figures do not match popular images of Krishna
sporting a peacock feather, archaeologists are convinced that the
coins are of Krishna, revered as an avatar of Vishnu. "These
square coins, dating back to 180- BC, with Krishna on one side
and Balram on the other, were unearthed recently in Al Khanoun
in Afghanistan and are the earliest proof that Krishna was
venerated as a god, and that the worship had spread beyond the
Mathura region," says T K V Rajan, archaeologist and founderdirector, Indian Science Monitor. Having done extensive research
in Brindavan, Rajan is convinced that a lot of the spiritual history
of ancient India lies buried.

12. Ancient Hindu temple unearthed in Sri Lanka

A heap of ruins where a Hindu temple of Chola period was

believed to have been buried has been unearthed in the Northern
part of Delft. The temple is 40 feet long and 10 feet wide.
Professor P. Pushparatnam of the Jaffna University History
Department commenting on the findings, said the people of the
locality are unable to say when this temple was built. The ruins
indicate that the building would have been built many years ago.

13. Ancient Idol of Lord Vishnu found in Russia

An ancient Vishnu idol has been found during excavation in an old

village in Russias Volga region, raising questions about the
prevalent view on the origin of ancient Russia. The idol found in
Staraya (old) Maina village dates back to VII-X century AD.
Staraya Maina village in Ulyanovsk region was a highly populated
city 1700 years ago, much older than Kiev, so far believed to be
the mother of all Russian cities.

Dr Kozhevin, who has been conducting excavation in Staraya

Maina for last seven years, said that every single square metre of
the surroundings of the ancient town situated on the banks of
Samara, a tributary of Volga, is studded with antiques. Prior to
unearthing of the Vishnu idol, Dr Kozhevin has already found
ancient coins, pendants, rings and fragments of weapons. We
may consider it incredible, but we have ground to assert that
Middle-Volga region was the original land of Ancient Rushi.

14. Hindu temples of Quanzhou - A forgotten

history of china

Quanzhou and its surrounding area consists of shrines or temples

that according to historians is part network of number of Hindu
shrines and temple. At present, there are no Hindus in Quanzhou.
But there previously existed a small Hindu community in late 13th
century, mostly situated in southeastern part of China. The
inscription of bilingual Tamil and Chinese-language has been
associated with the remains of a Shiva temple of Quanzhou. Shiva
temple is one of the two south Indian-style Hindu temples.

The roots of the shrine do not lie in china but from the south
India. Most of the residents of the village think that deity is
Guanyin the female Bodhisattva who is venerated in many parts
of China. Every morning the local residents of the village pray,
they light incense sticks and chant prayers unlike any deity one
might find elsewhere in China. The Hindu temple in the village
collapsed 500 years ago but as local residents had belief that
they still carry, goddess brought them good fortune, they dug
through the ruins, saved the deity and rebuilt the temple.

Goddess Saraswathi in Bali

The gate of Balinese Hindu temple, Pura Taman Saraswati, dedicated to

the goddess Sarasvati, Ubud, Bali

Shiva in South Africa

In South Africa, Ina Cave called Sudwara ( Good Gate ) archaeologists
found , Mahadeva (SHRI SHIV) year old idol of Shiva which got created
from hard granite stone.Archaeologist who found this Shivling statue of
Lord Shiv are so perplexed to know , it remain so far 6000 years how safe?
The most recently World largest statue of Lord Shivshakti(Lord Shiv) has
been unveil in South Africa . In this Statue along with Lord Siva, His
consort Parvati (The Power of Universe) is also present. The statue of Lord
Shiva in enshrined in city The highest Shiva-Shakti statue in the world,
towering 20 metres above the ground has been unveiled in South
Africa.Nine artisans from India spent 10 months building and putting the
finer detail on the steel statue at Actonville in Benoni City of South Africa
which features Lord Shiva on one half and Mother Shakti on the other.

In Petra Jordan
Historians tell us that sometime during the 6th - 4th centuries BC, the Nabataeans, a nomadic
tribe from north-western Arabia, entered the region of Petra, and established their cultural,
commercial and ceremonial center at Petra. Petra was located strategically at the intersection
of the overland Silk Route which connected India and China with Egypt and the Hellenistic
world, and the Incense Route from Arabia to Damascus. It soon developed into a thriving
commercial center.

Sometime during the 3rd century BC, the Nabataeans began to decorate
their capital city with splendid rock-cut temples and buildings. [Right: The
Khasneh or "Treasury"] Their economic prosperity and architectural
achievements continued unabated even after they came under the control
of the Roman Empire in 106 CE. The neglect and decline of Petra started
soon after Emperor Constantine declared Christianity as the official
religion of the Roman Empire in 324 CE. A series of earthquakes crippled
the region in the 7th - 8th centuries and Petra disappeared from the map
of the known world, only to be
rediscovered centuries later in 1812,
by a Swiss explorer named Johann
Burckhardt.
While the architectural grandeur of
Petra continues to captivate us, the
mysterious religious beliefs of the
Nabataeans have puzzled historians.
Within the temple of Al Deir, the
largest and most imposing rock-cut
temple in Petra, is present an
unworked, black, block of stone, like
an obelisk, representing the most
important deity of the Nabataeans -Dushara.
The term Dushara means 'Lord of the
Shara', which refers to the Shara
mountains to the north of Petra. The
symbolic animal of Dushara was a
bull. All over Petra, Dushara was represented symbolically by stone blocks.
At the entrance of Petra there are three massive standing blocks of stone,
known as Djin blocks, which were sacred to the inhabitants. There are
nearly 40 such Djin blocks present throughout Petra. In addition, at
religious sites throughout the city, the Nabataeans carved a standing
stone block called a baetyl, literally meaning 'house of god'.

A baetyl physically marked a deity's presence. It could be a square

[Above, left] or rounded like a dome [Above, right]. Some baetyls' were
depicted with a lunar crescent on the top. The Nabataeans also appear to
be snake worshippers. One of the most prominent structures in Petra is
the snake monument, which shows a gigantic coiled-up snake on a block
of stone. [Below]

In Nepal

Pashupatinath Temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Kathmandu. It is not

known for certain when Pashupatinath Temple was built. But according to
Nepal Mahatmaya and Himvatkhanda,[7] the deity here gained great fame
there as Pashupati, the Lord of all Pashus, which are living as well as nonliving beings. Pashupatinath Temple's existence dates back to 400 B.C.
The richly-ornamented pagoda houses the sacred linga or holy symbol of
Lord Shiva.

In Vietnam

My Son Vedic temple

In Mangolia

In Myanmar

Web References:
(http://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/mysterious-cases-of-hindu-templesthat-will-shock-you)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_temples_in_Indonesia
https://www.facebook.com/ResurgingHinduism/posts/516857758385387
http://www.viewzone.com/petra.html
https://pparihar.com/2016/09/03/vishnupurbishnupur-in-burmaancient-aryan-city/