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Thursday, 16th September 2004 (5857 views)

Jewellers across India are producing a host of gold jewellery items for Indian consumers to purchase and use to worship Gods.<BR/><BR/>With faith not just restricted to rituals, jewellery firms are producing gold jewellery and golden trunks for religious purposes.<BR/><BR/>One consumer, Mahima Kale told Express India: "Jewellers across the city are offering…a never-before assortment of jewellery for both Gauri and Ganpati."<BR/><BR/>Jeweller Sunil Ghodke who has just created a 12-inch hibiscus in pure gold for a local businessman explained: "We have over 185 new pooja items and jewels in both gold and silver."<BR/><BR/>Ganpati is the Hindu's elephant headed God who is always worshipped first in prayer and whose name is said before any type of worship - representing power and wisdom.<BR/><BR/>In addition the goddess Gauri is believed to be the one that created Ganpati as a pure white being out of the mud of her body.<img src="http://directnews.dehavilland.co.uk/dn.gif?feedid=196&itemid=3436532"/>

 

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