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Monday 14 May 2012

Angkor Wat replica to come up in Bihar [Are they serious or just barking?]

By Imran Khan, IANS,
Submitted by admin4 on 13 May 2012  

Patna : The Indian version of Cambodia's world-famous Angkor Wat temple complex will now be built in Bihar's East Champaran district on over 50 acres of land.
"There is no land shortage in East Champaran since the Kathwalia Matth is ready to provide us more than 50 acres. People from three villages have also agreed to donate land," Acharya Kishore Kunal, secretary of the cash-rich Mahavir Mandir Trust which is building the temple, told IANS.
The trust has also revised the plan. The temple would be spread over 100 acres and cost over Rs.300 crore, said Kunal, a retired police officer. The structure would be bigger than the one in Cambodia, considered by some as the largest Hindu temple complex in the world.
Angkor Wat was built in the 12th century during Hindu king Suryavarman's rule and is today a Unesco World Heritage Site.

The proposed "Virat Angkor Wat Ram Mandir" will have idols of Radha-Krishna, Shiva-Parvati, Ganesh, Surya, Vishnu and Dashavataram -- the 10 incarnations of Vishnu, he said. It will be designed by a temple architect from Ahmedabad, Piyush Sompura.
The five-storey, 1,240 feet long, 1,136 feet wide and 270 feet tall temple will be one of the tallest structures in the world, said Sompura, who will also raise funds for the project from India and abroad.
"We will use the famous chunar stones, which Emperor Ashoka had used for his inscriptions," Sompura, whose family has been designing temples for centuries, told IANS. "Generations will feel proud."
"It will follow the architectural design of Angkor Wat but will not be an exact replica because our measurements vary," added Kunal.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

To be honest, I don't care that Indian is building the replica of Angkor Wat. Yes, it might take away some of the tourist revenues but in my mind and most people, the real deal has the intangible qualities that no imitation can replicate.

Nothing is a threat if you know the source of the threat well and can exploit it to your advantage. Likewise, we should assess this situation in term of what we can do to capitalize on the Indian replica.

On a side note, the feeling one feels walking around a temple complex you know built 800 years ago is not comparable to a bigger one built today.

Anonymous said...

Fisrt they said it is going to take five years, and then they said it is going to take ten years, and now what. Can they just buit the damn temple? I really want to see it. Anyway, most people visit Cambodian temple are interested in looking at the past and history, not the shopping mall.

Anonymous said...

Don’t wait any longer, go ahead and rush to build it right now this year (2012), then it can make the Temple get old sooner.

Anonymous said...

Let Those copycat build it. I don't care. It is nothing else compared to Cambodian's.
Why doesn't India copy other 2000 temples?

We have a lot for India to copy.

Anonymous said...

I hope that India was not stupid copying the 1000-year old tree...lolz.

Anonymous said...

Shame on you India,you're nothing but a thief stealing khmers idea haha! haha ...its laughable to see this kind of publicity stunt of India copy cat...
Don't you have anything to do beside copy Angkor watt? What are you thinking in this moment? what are you trying to prove!?...
fuckin' India.