Description:
Krishna’s Butter ball, is a gigantic stone boulder, resting on a short incline in the historical town of Mammallapuram. The more than 200 ton weighing boulder, apparently is standing on the slope without moving even a millimeter for the last 1200 years, it is said.
The original name to this is “Vaan Irai Kal” which in the local dialect, Tamil, means, Stone of the Sky God. The present name to this boulder was given a by a local guide when the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi visited the place.
The erstwhile rulers have always tried to move it with the help of Elephants and other manual instrument but to no avail. The stone has not moved. It is one of the rare objects in the world which defies gravity.
