Ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, a temple in Karnataka's Bengaluru has been decorated with currency notes and coins worth Rs 2 crore.
The Sri Sathya Ganapathy Temple in Bengaluru's JP Nagar is known for giving a unique touch to their premises during Ganesh Puja festivities every year.
This time, they have gone a step ahead and decorated the temple using hundreds of coins and currency notes ranging from Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 50 to Rs 500 denominations.
The temple used currency notes worth Rs 2.18 crore and coins worth Rs 70 lakh for decoration.
"It took three months to prepare it," Temple Trustee Mohan Raju Trustee told NDTV.
"Whatever coins and currency notes have been used, they will be returned to those who have given to the temple," he added.
In the past few years, the temple also used eco-friendly items such as flowers, corn and raw bananas to decorate the idol of Ganpati as part of Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations.
Ganesh Chaturthi 2023
The Ganesh Chaturthi festival falls in the Bhadrapada month of the Hindu calendar and marks the birthday of Lord Ganesha, son of Shiva and Parvati. The much-awaited festival is also known as Vinayak Chaturthi and Ganeshotsav.
It is marked with the installation of Ganesha's clay idols in homes and public places, and concludes when the idol is carried in a public procession and immersed (visarjan) in a river or sea on the day of Anant Chaturdashi.
This year, the Ganesh Chaturthi festivities will commence on September 19.
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