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Padmanabham Labyrinth, Andhra Pradesh is a labyrinth installation in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. The design is a classical chakravyuha layout with 7 circuits, 8 walls, built of stone. Documented age: ~500 CE (~500 CE). Current condition: intact. A Chakravyuha-type labyrinth associated with a temple at Padmanabham in Andhra Pradesh — reflecting the Mahabharata's account of the deadly battle formation devised by Dronacharya to trap Abhimanyu. Documentation sources: Kern 2000. The labyrinth pattern occurs nowhere in nature; every documented instance traces back to a human hand. The labyrinth is one of several hundred sites of this type catalogued globally; each preserves the same unicursal walking-pattern with regional variation in scale, material, and date.
The labyrinth tradition spans at least 4,000 years of documented practice across northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the British Isles, North America, and the Indian subcontinent.