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English: Pic of one of two gigantic sterling silver vessels in Jaipur, Rajasthan (India) measuring 5.2 feets in height and 340 kg in weight, with a capacity of 4000 litres. It is said that they melted 14000 silver coins without soldering to make those vessels. There is an interesting fact about those sterling silver vessels.The highly pious Hindu king, Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II wanted to take the sacred water of the river Ganges on his travel to England in 1901. According to him, it is a religious sin to drink foreign water. To serve the purpose of carrying water for the king, the sterling silver vessels are made, which are now recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the World's largest silver vessels. As they made those vessels for carrying Ganga water, they are named Gangajelies. |
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