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Patna,(BiharTimes): Notwithstanding protest in Cambodia Mahavir Mandir Trust has revised the measurements of the proposed Viraat Angkor Wat Ram temple near Hajipur with an aim to make it the largest Hindu shrine, with the tallest spire (shikhar), in the world. Now instead of the earlier estimate of Rs 100 crore it is likely to cost Rs 150 crore. |
The proposed temple would be 360-foot long, 360-foot wide and 270-foot tall. Earlier, the temple was supposed to be 222-foot-long, 222-foot-wide and 222-foot-tall.aAccording to Acharya Kishore Kunal, the Secretary of the Mahavir Mandir Trust: “We did a lot of research and visited the Archaeological Survey of India office in New Delhi for advice from experts. Temples such as the Kashi Vishwanath shrine in Varanasi, Akshardham in New Delhi and Brihadeeswarar in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, were almost of the same dimension. We did not want the new temple to look similar. We wanted to construct a Ram temple that would be famous globally. So we decided to revise the temple’s dimensions.”
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