AYODHYA: As many as 51 Vedic gurus chanted mantras as the ‘shaligram shilas’ from Gandaki river in Nepal were handed over to Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust general secretary Champat Rai on Thursday morning, reports Arshad Afzaal Khan.
The shilas were initially taken to Ram Janmabhoomi temple from where they were taken to Karsewakpuram, where idols of Ram’s baalroop (child form) and Ram & Sita will be carved out. Mahant Tapeshwar Das of Janaki Mandir in Nepal’s Janakpur presented these rocks to the Trust representatives. Two large boulders from special rocks believed to be 60 million years old, which were found in the Gandaki River at a site close to Shaligramam in Muktinath Valley at the foot of the Thorong La mountain pass in Mustang, Nepal, were dispatched from the Himalayan country on January 25.
The rocks, known as shaligram, are considered representations of Lord Vishnu. One of these boulders weighs 26 tonnes while the other 14 tonnes.