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'Kumbhakarna' gets Limca record
Mangalore, Jan 20 (UNI) In an attempt to 'sculpt' a place in the Limca Book of Records, Prashanth Patnaik, brother of renowned sand sculptor Sudarshan Patnaik, has created a 200-ft-long sand sculpture of Kumbhakarna from the Ramayana epic, at the three-day Beach Utsav at Panambur beach, near here.
The mammoth 50-ft-wide and 30-ft-high sand sculpture, created using nearly 4,000 tonnes of sand, was expected to erase the present record in the name of Sudarshan for his 100-ft-long work in Puri on Christmas eve, symbolising universal brotherhood.
The sculpture of Kumbhakarna sleeping over books was symbolic of a person with the capacity to acquire knowledge, but unwilling to learn and oblivious to the reality around him, Prashanth Patnaik explained.
A few inches away from the head of the giant was a globe, with the faces of Jesus Christ, Guru Nanak, Ibrahim and Shankaracharya carved on four sides representing the much-needed communal harmony, he said.
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