Gandhinagar to have a tallest Mahavir Swami idol
May 13, 2009
Gandhinagar to have a tallest Mahavir Swami idol
By our correspondent
Gandhinagar, DeshGujarat, 13 May, 2009
Jain monk Padmasagarsurishwarji Maharaj today announced that Gandhinagar would have Lord Mahavir Swami’s 108 ft idol. Once ready this idol would be the tallest idol of Mahavir Swami who is the 24th Jain Tirthankar.
Proposed idol would be errected on Gandhinagar’s ‘J’ road. It would weight 228 tone. Making of this Panchadhatu idol has already started.
Padmasagarsurishwarji Maharaj further said that there would be a mountain like structure behind the idol.
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