A Hindu trust has changed the name of a temple, proposed to be the world's largest, in Bihar's East Champaran district from Viraat Angkor Wat Ram Temple to Viraat Ramayan Mandir in view of a controversy.
The Angkor Wat temple is currently the largest Hindu temple in the world. It is in Cambodia and was built in the early 12th century during the reign of the Cambodian king Suryavarman (1141-1152 AD).
The Bihar temple, the trust claimed, would be larger that the Cambodian temple.
"To respect the sentiments of the Cambodian people we have changed the name of the proposed temple from Viraat Angkor Wat Ram Temple to Viraat Ramayan Mandir," said Acharya Kishore Kunal, a retired Indian Police Service officer and the secretary of Bihar Mahavir Mandir Trust, which looks into the affairs of the temple.
The temple will house the idols of Radha-Krishna, Shiva-Parvati, Ganesh, Surya, Vishnu and the Dashavataram, the ten incarnations of Vishnu.
Kunal said that it is clear that the proposed temple was not going to be an exact replica of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple. "The proposed temple is going to be even larger than the Angkor
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