An artist in Alappuzha, the backwater town of Kerala, is making a decorated 'micro' version of the Bhagavat Gita in silver, which when completed would be the smallest edition of the Hindu spiritual classic.
Engaged in the meticulous and strenuous task over the past several months, 29-year-old Vinodkumar has designed the silver book to be of 88 mm in width and 10 mm thick, containing 1,100 pages covering all the 18 chapters of the Sanskrit classic, which forms the philosophic core of the great Indian epic Mahabharata.
"I think this is not just the smallest ever version of the Gita. My information is that this is going to be the smallest ever version of any religious work," 29-year-old Vinod Kumar sais.
The work has advanced to the 12th chapter of the Gita -- Bhakti Yogam -- and the remaining chapters would be completed soon, he said.
Vinodkumar, who is also a freelance photographer, aims to set a world record with his work.
Hailing from a family of gold workers, he learnt the craft from his father Gopalan. But instead of eking out a living through jewellery work, he chose to be an artist, specialising in silver.
Some of his earlier works, mostly silver replicas of major Kerala temples, have been bought by foreign tourists.
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