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Upper part of mountain, which has a design change to (5) Shikhars is on hold at present. Collecting the stones is another major effort which should be mentioned.
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Further to our surprise all our carvings for stories (which also has increased in number from 9 to 16 as we learned more) were not approved by Muni Shri. There were lot of errors religiously and anatomically as well. We went through a lengthy discussion, suggestions and corrections to finally decide on paper at least how to do our stories correctly. We have started now carving the stories in stones with guidelines established.
List of carvings for STORIES 1. Janma Kalyanak
10. Rani Veermati (Damyanti Story) 2. Parna
11. Padlipt Suri- story 3. Samavsaran Shri Rishab Deo 12. Mahavir Swami/ Gautam Swami 4. Bharat Chakravarti
requesting to go to Ashtapad 5. Arisha Mahal Story
13. Gautam Swami climbing Ashtapad 6. Nagkumar & Sagar Sons
with help of sunrays 7. Bali Muni & Rawan story
14. Gautam Swami on Ashtapad 8. Rawan Mandodari Bhakti
15. Kheer Parna and Tapas story 9. Dharmendra- Rawan dialogue 16. Triyank Zambak Deo and Gautam Swami
We are proposing a change for Pratishtha to May 2008 (Akhatrij) instead of 2007. This will give also give enough time for carving work to be completed. Now Varsi Tap can start in May 2007 and we'll have Parna in May 2008 coinciding with Pratishtha ceremonies.
JAINA has a convention in July 2007 at Raritan Center, N.J. This change will avoid overlapping of two functions. Note 1. Collection of literature-Volume IX on Ashtapad is ready now. All volumes I to IX are available
in our library. 2. If you are visiting Jaipur, you are welcome to see making of Ashtapad.
3. On 27th of May 2006, a major Launch event being hosted by Institute of Jainology at Delhi.
India and United Kingdom Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Smt. Ambika Soni will preside. Hon. Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh will launch the catalogue describing Jain Manuscripts.
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