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IDOL WEIGHING 100 TONS TO BE INSTALLED AT SHIVGANJ
A new Jain temple complex, called "Abhinav Mahavir Dham, devoted to Bhagwan Mahavir is under construction at a place close to Shiv ganj, on the bank of river javai in Rajasthan.. A massive stone idol is going to be built, which is expected to weigh as much as 100 tons. Entire work of producing the idol will be carried out at the site of the temple The Muhurat ceremony for starting the chiseling work of the idol was carried out recently in the holy presence of Jain saint Pranyas Bhadranan Maharaj and many other saints and sadhwi. The local businessmen and trustees of the temple, namely Shri Umed mal ji and Shri Shanti Lal ji Shobhawat,  evinced great interest in conducting the ceremony and collecting funds for the construction of the temple. It was a tremendous task to remove a single piece of marble stone and transport it from the stone mine at Makrana in Rajasthan to the site of the temple. The  100 ton stone piece measured 20 ft. in length, 14 ft. in width and 7 ft. in depth. A specialist team was called from Delhi to handle the  operation. It took 6 months time to cut out the piece of stone from the mine by 20 workers.