VARANATION: The Chair of the Yogi Adityanath Minister will do ‘Pran Pratistha’ (Consecration) of an ancient idol Dewi Annapurna, who has been returned by Canada, at the newly developed Dham Dham Kashi Vishwanath on November 15.
The measurement of this stone idol is 17.30 x 9.90 x 4.90 cm has been stolen from Kashi and smuggled to Canada Seabad ago.
“Idol has arrived in New Delhi from Canada with the efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” said Division Devision Agrawal told toi on Wednesday, adding that the Homecoming trip from Idol from New Delhi with Varanasi will begin in November 11, and will reach the city November 14 night.
He said that CM will be present at the idol consequence ceremony, which will be established in a temple at the Kashi Vishwanath Dham place.
At Mann Ki Baat on 29 November last year, PM itself has announced this idol return from Canada.
“I want to share good news with all of you.
Every Indian will be proud to know that the idol is very old from Devi Annapurna back to India from Canada.
This idol was stolen from the Varanasi temple and smuggled out of the country around 100 years ago somewhere around In 1913.
I thank the Canadian government and to everyone for the great good that allows this prop presentation, “The PM has announced at Mann Ki Baat.
Next, he said that Annapurna’s eyes had a very special relationship with Kashi.
“Now the return of Idol is fun for all of us.
Just like Annapurna’s idol, many of our very valuable heritages have suffered in the hands of international gangs.
These gangs sell it at very high prices in the international market.
Now they not only experience severe restrictions; India has also improved its business for their return.
Because such efforts, India has managed to bring back many idols and artifacts like that in recent years, “said PM.
Then, handling meetings in Raj Ghat in Varanasi on the occasion of DEPawali Dev on November 30, 2020, PM also refers to the return of Idol Dewi Annapurna from Canada.
This stone idol is placed at the University of Regina Museum, Canada.
The University of Regina also issued a press statement last year, said that Annapurna, a statue of a collection of regina universities in the art gallery of Mackenzie, will immediately begin the journey home after a virtual repatriation ceremony held on November 19.
Regina’s University Dr.
Thomas Chase, temporary president and Chancellor representative, met Ajay Bisaria, Indian High Commissioner, more than zoom to officially repatriate the statue.
Representatives from the Art Gallery of Mackenzie, Canada Global Canada, and the Canadian border service agency also attended the ceremony.
Goddess Annapurna’s Idol is part of the collection of regina universities who are considered by Mackenzie art galleries through long partnerships since the early 1950s.
The artist Divya Mehra watched the fact that the statue had been brought more than a century ago when through a permanent collection of Mackenzie and prepared the exhibition – ‘from India to Canada and returned to India.
The statue was part of the original BEQUEST 1936 by Norman Mackenzie, The Gallery’s namesake.
When Mehra examined the story behind the statue, he found that Mackenzie had noticed the statue while on the way to India in 1913.
Foreigners had heard Mackenzie’s wishes to have the statue, and stole it from the original location – a temple in stone steps On the banks of the Ganges river in Varanasi, India.
The university also issued the image of the statue.