New Delhi: On the event of Maha Shivaratri, Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain on Saturday (February 18, 2023) set a brand new Guinness world document by lighting 18.82 lakh diyas (earthen oil lamps). The earlier world document for the “largest display of oil lamps” was set by Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, which had lit round 15.76 lakh lamps on Diwali final 12 months.
The diyas had been to be lit for no less than 5 minutes which was carried out efficiently right here, Guinness World Records’ adjudicator Swapnil Dangarikar stated.
About 20,000 volunteers took half within the occasion which was staged primarily throughout the banks of the Kshipra river.
The occasion was additionally attended by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his spouse.
।। हर हर महादेव ।।
असंख्य रश्मियों के प्रकाश से प्रदीप्त उज्जयिनी की शोभा और सौंदर्य अवर्णित है। महाकाल महाराज की साक्षात कृपा यहाँ बरस रही है।
लाखों प्रकाश दीपों की मनभावन ज्योतिर्मयता से सनातन संस्कृति का कोना-कोना आलोकित हो रहा है। #MahaShivaratri pic.twitter.com/pxjs7HNQC5
— Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) February 18, 2023
According to metropolis officers, all the occasion on Saturday was based mostly on the ‘zero waste’ precept.
With this, Ujjain additionally kicked off the “Shiv Jyoti Arpanam 2023” program.
“शिव ज्योति अर्पणम: 2023” कार्यक्रम में साथी श्री @DrMohanYadav51 जी, श्री @mlaujjain जी, श्री @bjpanilfirojiya जी, श्री @iMukeshTatwal जी, श्री @BJP_DrJatiya जी एवं अन्य गणमान्य जनप्रतिनिधि एवं नागरिक उपस्थित रहे। pic.twitter.com/eTulOWe1AG
— Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) (*18*)February 18, 2023
On Maha Shivaratri final 12 months, as many as 11,71,078 earthen lamps had been lit in Ujjain.
