A 44 inches rakhi depicting ‘samudra manthan’ was tied on lord Ganesh at city's famous and most popular Khajrana temple here on Monday to invoke blessings of the Goddess of Wealth laxmi and beat the economic recession in the country. According to Palrecha family that has been designing innovative big rakhis for lord Ganesha every year for the past 15 years.
This year they hit upon the idea of making rakhi on Rs samudra manthan' so as to please and invoke blessings of the Goddess laxmi and to do away with prevailing economic slowdown in the country. In the rakhi we have showcased all the items which were excavated during the course of ‘samundra manthan’, said Shantu Paalrecha and Ankita Paalrecha adding that post demonitisation in the country which created huge currency crisis, we wish that everyone in the country is endowed with wealth so as to lift the battered economic condition of the country.
Elaborating further, the duo said that demonetization and implementation of GST in the country have badly affected liquidity of currency, thereby affected the market and individuals as well. Keeping this in mind we have designed this year's rakhi for the lord Ganesha at Khajrana temple on Rs samundra manthan' theme so as to invoke blessings of Goddess laxmi.
This 44 inch rakhi being dubbed as the biggest rakhi to have been tied on lord Ganesha, has been prepared by 40 people and it took almost one month prepare the same, Paalrecha said. The rakhi depicts Goddess laxmi in the centre embedded with 14 precious stones.