INDIA, February 4, 2022 (First Post): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the 216-foot-tall “Statue of Equality” in Hyderabad to commemorate the 11th-century Bhakti Saint Sri Ramanujacharya. Saint Ramanujacharya was born in 1017 in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu to mother Kanthimathi and father Asuri Kesava Somayaji. Saint Ramanujacharya fought for social, cultural, gender, educational and economic discrimination with the foundational conviction that every human is equal regardless of nationality, gender, race, caste or creed. According to the ancient scriptures, he lived for 120 years, a claim which is questioned by modern scholars and experts. In the early 11th and 12th centuries, the saint is said to have traveled across the length and breadth of the country to promote equality and social justice. Today, Ramanujacharya is revered as a Vedic philosopher who revived the Bhakti Movement.
As a tribute to his teachings, the statue, known as the “Statue of Equality” was unveiled to commemorate his 1,000th birth anniversary. The 216-feet-tall structure has been built at Muchintal, a village in Telangana. The Statue of Equality is located near the Hyderabad International Airport at Shamshabad and about 1.86 miles east of the Hyderabad-Bengaluru highway. The statue is made of panchaloha — a combination of five metals: gold, silver, copper, brass, and zinc and is among one of the tallest metallic statues in sitting position in the world. It is mounted on a 54-feet high base building, named Bhadra Vedi, has floors devoted for a Vedic digital library and research center, ancient Indian texts, a theater, an educational gallery detailing many works of Sri Ramanujacharya.
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