18.8 lakh diyas were lit on Mahashivratri in Ujjain
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Around 20,000 volunteers participated in the event which was mainly organized on the banks of the Kshipra River. He announced that Ayodhya’s record has been broken by lighting 18.82 lakh lamps in Ujjain on Saturday evening.
A new ‘Guinness World Record’ has been created by lighting 18.8 diyas in Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday evening. The previous world record for the “largest display of oil lamps” was set during Diwali 2022 in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, when 15.76 lakh diyas were lit, said Swapnil Dangrikar, adjudicator of the ‘Guinness World Records’. Around 20,000 volunteers participated in the event which was mainly organized on the banks of the Kshipra River. He announced that Ayodhya’s record has been broken by lighting 18.82 lakh lamps in Ujjain on Saturday evening.
He said that the lamps were to be lit for at least five minutes and it was successfully done here. The event was organized by the local administration with the help of citizens’ groups. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who reached the program along with his wife, later told that a total of 18,82,229 lamps were lit on the occasion. The local authorities had set a target of lighting 21 lakh oil lamps to celebrate the festival of Mahashivaratri on Saturday and they managed to light 18.82 lakh lamps. Last year, 11,71,078 earthen lamps were lit on Mahashivratri in Ujjain.
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