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In Usmanpura three jain idols found 7.5ft tall
Ahmedabad, Thursday, September 22, 2011
On the international day for peace hot shorts, kids in school uniform, women with jewels, men, skirts and more had rushed out from their office to watch something which is extraordinary and Maharaj Saheb was pondering and chanting on what could be found next on the ground below. On Wednesday afternoon in shantinagar society at Usmanpur people saw ground realities and the people say that this is not the scene of Hindi movie from 70’s.
Lot of people ran and walked towards the site”Anusmruti” where three idols of jain were found. The site belongs to Dr Virendra and in earlier days that site was named as “5 Laxmi Narayana Society”.
Maharaj Saheb says that these all statues belong to the “Shwetambar” sect of the religion jain and these statues are nearly 500 years old and that three statues that we found was 7.5 feet height each. Join secretary Jayanthi says when the women nearby home came and informed we all rushed to the spot and watched the three statues in the site. And she also said these three statues will be taken to the Jain Upasna of shanthinagar and this will cleaned with abishek and do puja and later we will check and do repairs if it needed.
Source: daybreakingnews.com
Times Of IndiaThree antique Jain idols unearthed from building site
TNN Sep 22, 2011, 04.57am IST
AHMEDABAD: A common construction site in Shantinagar society in Usmanpura drew many curious visitors on Wednesday morning with the sudden appearance of three eight-feet-tall Jain idols.
Religious heads and residents from nearby thronged the site to perform poojas and later chalked out a plan to install them in a community hall nearby. Jain priests Harihant Sagarji and Muni Padmajit Sagarji who were present at the spot claimed that the idols may be four hundred years old and its makers had hidden the statues during an attack by the Mughal army.
The priests also claimed that the idols were made by artisans from Khambat and were being transported into the city. However, the state archeology department had a completely different version to tell. Scientists claimed that the three idols were incomplete and looked similar. The chisel work suggested that it could not be more than 100 years old. "Idols of this size were normally constructed near a temple site.
The idols seem incomplete as the artisans have not carved the vehicles of the tirthankars and specific signs on the idol's body that can help devotees identify the revered gods.
The artisans may have left the idols for some reason which is not known yet," says director of state archeology department Y S Rawat. But Muni Padmajit claimed, "Similar Jain idols are present in Sambhav Nath ni Khadki in Zaveriwad area in the walled city which are smaller in size compared to the ones found at this site. We believe that the idols were being brought for a new Jain temple and that they were hidden fearing attacks." Virendra Shah who owned a bungalow at the site for many years had sold the property to Anil Patel, a builder, for a residential apartment scheme at the site.
It was during the digging to lay the foundation at the site that the idols were revealed. "The foundation of the bungalow was just one metre deep, while the idols were found four metres deep. There was no way that Shah could have known about the presence of the idols," say a resident - Parmanand Purohit.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Three 7.5 ft tall Jain idols found in Usmanpura Published: Thursday, Sep 22, 2011, 15:43 IST By Kinjal Desai | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA | |
Women with diamond jewellery, kids in school uniforms, hot shorts, skirts and more, and men, who had rushed out of their offices to get a glimpse of something ‘extraordinary’, and maharaj saheb were seen chanting and then pondering on what next could possibly be found from the ground below. Looked like utter chaos on the International Day for Peace!
This is not a hindi movie scene from 70s, but ground realities of Shantinagar Society at Usmanpura, as seen on Wednesday noon.
People walked and ran towards, ‘Anusmruti’, the site wherein three life-size idols of Jain deities were found. However, this site apparently belongs to Dr Virendra Shah and earlier the name of the site was ‘5, Laxmi Narayan Society’.
If maharaj saheb, Panyas Arihant Sagar is to be believed, then these statues are 500 years old. He said, “All these statues belong to the ‘Shwetambar’ sect of the Jain religion and are likely to be at least 500 years old. We have found three statues each of 7.5 feet height.”
If maharaj saheb, Panyas Arihant Sagar is to be believed, then these statues are 500 years old. He said, "All these statues belong to the 'Shwetambar' sect of the Jain religion and are likely to be at least 500 years old. We have found three statues each of 7.5 feet height."
Jayanti Gandhi, joint secretary, Shantinagar Shwetambar Murti Pujak Sangh said, "We were in a lecture at the derasar nearby when a woman informed us about these statues. She said that she had seen a white head, as men dug the surface. We immediately rushed to the spot and found the three statues.
These will now be taken to the Shantinagar Jain Upasna, cleaned with abhishek and we will conduct puja and then check if it requires any repair." The woman who first saw these statues was Peenal Hardik Shah, a resident of Shyam flats, whose house balcony faces the site.
However, by the time the statues could be taken for Abhishek, puja and offerings had already begun, when flocks of people crowded the statues. People were seen touching the feet, head, and pedestal of the statues to receive god's blessings. Mud from which the statues were extracted was also taken home by 'devotees' for blessings of a lifetime.
Source: dnaindia.com
