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The five foot tall Ram Lalla idol will be sculpted by Arun Yogiraj, a renowned sculptor from Mysuru. The idol of Ram Lalla that will be installed in the temple under construction in Ayodhya will have the shape of an archer and will be carved in "krishna shila" or black stone from Karnataka, the board of trustees responsible for the work has decided. At its two-day meeting which ended here on Tuesday evening, Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust finalized the specifications for the idol.
"The new idol of Lord Ram, in his five-year-old avatar, will be five feet tall. The idol will stand armed with a bow and arrow," trustee Swami Teerth Prasannyacharya said on Wednesday.
"Arun Yogiraj will carve the idol in stone brought to Ayodhya from the Karkar and Hegge Deven Kote villages of Karnataka... The carver will finalize the stone from which the idol will be carved," he added.
The trust's general secretary, Champat Rai, said he chose "krishna shila" after consultations among psychics, geologists, sculptors, Hindu scripture experts and trust officials.
Devotees are eagerly awaiting the new idol of Ram Lalla to be placed in the temple's sanctum sanctorum during the Makar Sankranti festival next year, he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed the "bhoomi pujan" for the construction of the temple on August 2, 2020.
The temple is under construction following the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute.
In its November 9, 2019 decision, the Supreme Court ordered a Ram Temple to be built on the 2.77-acre site where the Babri Mosque once stood and five acres to be set aside for the construction of a mosque in Ayodhya district. in Uttar Pradesh. .
