Tower of silence art and architecture 200 words
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The tower of silence art and architecture In Mumbai is also called a Dakhma
This is a structure where dead bodies of the Paris are left to be decomposed by the vultures and other scavenging birds and organisms.
The structure is circular with three pillars around it.
The towers are the uniform in their construction.
The roof of Tower is lower in the middle than the outer and is divided into three concentric circles.
The dead bodies are placed on stone beds on the roof of the tower and there is central ossuary pit, into which the bodies fall after eaten by vultures.
The bodies disintegrate naturally assisted with lime and the remaining is washed off by rain water into multiple filters of coal and sand, finally reaching
the sea
The human bodies are kept inside the tower , whose head is open , For decomposition to happen with time.
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