The small town of Mahabalipuram in India features a baffling scene: one very unique boulder. The name of this boulder is “Vaan Irai Kal,” which translates to “Sky God’s Stone,” but it’s more typically known as Krishna’s Butter Ball. The large size of the thing isn’t the oddest feature (the boulder measures 20 feet tall and 16.5 feet across), it’s its position. The Butter Ball is properly located on a sloping hillside, a somewhat gravity-defying location it has kept for more than 1,200 years.
This boulder is called Krishna’s Butter Ball due to the fact of a Hindu legend that tells the story of the god Krishna, who liked to take butter as a baby. The tale goes that Krishna slipped a huge dollop of butter that turned the giant stone. A lot of persons have attempted to push the 250-ton boulder down the slope but to no avail. So how does this famous boulder sustain its unbelievable balance on a little base of less than two square feet? Even after a thousand years, the answer isn’t clear.
