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Statue of Equality (Ramanuja)

సమతామూర్తి

Muchintal, Hyderabad, Telangana · 17.1860°, 78.3332°

Ramanuja, the 11th-century Vaishnava philosopherModern—

Sacred since

2014 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

2014–2022 (inaugurated Feb 2022)

Modern

History & significance

A 66-metre seated figure of the philosopher Ramanuja at Muchintal on the edge of Hyderabad, built by the Chinna Jeeyar Trust for his thousandth birth anniversary and inaugurated in February 2022. Cast in 700 tonnes of panchaloha and assembled from some 1,600 shipped pieces, it is among the tallest sitting statues in the world and was laid out according to Agama and Shilpa Shastra.

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