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Once built as a tank in 1262 by the King Pandyadeva, it supplied the city with drinking water for over eight centuries. Today, this ancient 12th century Anekere spreading over an area of 7 acres is full of clear water and adorned with beautiful white lilies.

NASA had gathered some of the world’s best vision scientists to work on the perceptual problems encountered by helicopter pilots, like perceiving how fast they were flying and how high above the ground they were. Unlike that of birds , the human visual system assumes that our feet are always firmly planted on the ground, and thus, when computing speed, it employs the simplifying assumption that we are always travelling at an unchanging altitude corresponding to our eyes height@ this assumption works fine if you are in fact walking on the ground, but it doesn't work at all when your altitude changes. As your altitude increases, the ground below you appears to move move slowly, and you feel that you’re slowing down. You may have noticed that, when looking out of an airplane window, you do not feel tha you are hurtling through the air at more than 500 miles per hour. . . . . The workship scientists took for granted a conventional view of visual processing: your eyes take in visual information, your brain processes it, and the world’s structure is accurately perceived. A key assumption in this formulation is that perceptual experience is, for the most part, objectively accurate. . . . Page 36

Once built as a tank in 1262 by the King Pandyadeva, it supplied the city with drinking water for over eight centuries. Today, this ancient 12th century Anekere spreading over an area of 7 acres is full of clear water and adorned with beautiful white lilies. Basadi refers to Jaina temples with residences of scholars attached to the shrine.—Before the 12th century, Jainism was the dominating religion of this region. About a third of the total population were Jains. Especially during the rule of Rāṣṭrakūṭas and Chalukyas and their feudatories, namely the Haihayahs and Kalachurīs, Jainism reached its peak. Many basadis were built throughout the region. Many places of this region became popular as Jain kṣetras. These centres have played an important role in the socio-religious life of the people of this region. Almost each village had a Jaina basadi that served as an important centre of Jainism.

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