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ādhunik āshcharya

hajār varṣhathī shravaṇabelagolamān sthit bhagavān bāhubalīnī pa7 phūṭ ūñchī

adbhut ajāyab mūrti dekhīne āpaṇe āshcharya pāmī jaīe chhīe. hajār varṣha pahelānn je

āshcharyakārī banāv banyo tevo banāv āje paṇ banī rahyo chhe–te jāṇīne

jignāsuone āshcharya thashe.

maisur rājyamān dharmasthal nāmanun ek kṣhetra dhārmik sanskr̥itinā ādarsha jevun chhe.

shravaṇabelagolathī te thoḍā ja māīl dūr chhe. tyānnā ek ṭekarā upar bhagavān bāhubalī

svāmīnī pīṭhikā sahit bāvan phūṭ ūñchī pratimā sthāpit thavānī chhe. svargastha

ratnavarma heggaḍene ā bhavya pratimā nirmāṇ karāvīne dharmasthalamān sthāpavānī bhāvanā

jāgelī. parantu āvī adbhut mūrti banāvī shake evā shilpakār kyān maḷashe! enī

chintāmān hatā. bhāratadesh to āvī shilpakaḷā māṭe jagaprasiddha chhe... eṭale shodhakhoḷ

karatān kārakalamān (jyān bāhubalī bhagavānanī bījī ek ūñchī pratimā birāje chhe te

shaheramān) shrī reñjāl gopāl shaiṇe nāmanā ek anubhavī shilpakaḷāmān kushaḷ kalākār

maḷī gayā; ane ghaṇān alpakāḷamān ā mahān kārya pūrun karī āpavāno temaṇe nirṇay

karyo. ī. sa. 1968 nā jun māsamān ā maṅgaḷ kāryano prārambh thayo. seṅkaḍo kārīgaro

dinarāt kāme lāgī gayā; koī jātanā vighna vagar te bhavyamūrti taiyār thaī gaī ane

have ā pratimāne kārakalathī (4p māīl) dharmasthal pahoñchāḍavā māṭenī mahān

vyavasthā chālī rahī chhe– te māṭe vachchenī saḍako majabūt banāvāī rahī chhe. mumbaīnī

ek kampanīe teno konṭrākaṭ rākhyo chhe ne te māṭe 84 paiḍāvāḷī ek khās ṭrolī taiyār

karel chhe. bāvan phūṭ ūñchī ā mūrtinu vajan 170 ṭan (lagabhag dash hajār maṇ) chhe.

4p māīlanā rastāmān ā mūrti sāthe hajāro yātrikabhakto paṇ dhāmadhūmathī vihār

karashe; sāthe pa0 jeṭalā hāthī, anek beṇḍapārṭī, patrakāro, ṭelivijhan vagere paṇ hashe.

vachche āvatā badhā jinālayomān pūjanādi karatān–karatān, vachche veṇūrasthit bāhubalī

bhagavānano mastakābhiṣhek paṇ karīne, hajāro yātrik sahit dhāmadhūmathī pratimā

‘dharmasthal’ pahoñchashe. dharmasthalamān dar varṣhe āvanārā lākho yātriko ā adbhut

mūrtinā darshanathī prabhāvit thashe.

ā mūrti lagabhag rap phebruārīe kārakalathī ravānā thavānī hatī, –eṭale