This Navratri, a devotee marked the occasion by donating seven kilograms of gold to the newly built Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. Inside the temple, there’s a special version of the Ramayana scripture with golden inscriptions.
Retired IAS officer Subramanian Lakshminarayanan, a 1970-batch Madhya Pradesh cadre officer, has also donated his entire savings to Ram Temple in Ayodhya. A copy of the ‘Ramcharit Manas,’ weighing about 151 kilograms and costing Rs. 5 crore, has been prepared.
Each page of the replica will be 14×12 inches in size made of copper, inscribed with verses from Ram Charit Manas. Each page of this epic, comprising 10,902 verses, will have a 24-carat gold-plating.
The Golden replica will have approximately 480-500 pages and it will be made of 151 Kg copper and 3-4 Kg of gold. Each page would be of 3 kgs copper and it would require 4-5 gms of gold for the plating. The metallic manuscript will weigh over 1.5 quintal.
Mr Lakshminarayanan told Indian Masterminds that the whole project would cost him approximately Rs. 4.5-5 crore.
