Solving the 1000-Year-Old Riddle of the Levitating Shiva-Linga of the Somnath Temple

A Physically Plausible Reconstruction in Archaeophysics, with Falsifiable Requirements: Magnetic Trapping, Gyroscopic Stability, and a Water-Driven Reaction Rotor to explain the unsolved riddle of the levitating shiva-lingam of Somanth Temple destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1026 AD.

Authors

Nishit Sawal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8737-2963)
Aditi Panwar

Publication Details

Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published: 2026-11-04
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23959049
Primary Topic: Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
Type: preprint

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Solving the 1000-Year-Old Riddle of the Levitating Shiva-Linga of the Somnath Temple

Nishit Sawal, Aditi Panwar

Nov 4, 2026

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies

preprint

Solving the 1000-Year-Old Riddle of the Levitating Shiva-Linga of the Somnath Temple

Nishit Sawal, Aditi Panwar

November 4, 2026preprint en

Abstract

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies

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