PM Narendra Modi gifts sandalwood box, 24-carat gold coin & 7.5-carat green diamond to Bidens at private d

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted a handcrafted sandalwood box with a silver idol of Lord Ganesha and a 7.5-carat lab-grown green diamond to US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, respectively.AgenciesThe gifts were exchanged during the private dinner hosted by the Bidens for PM Modi at the White House...

He gifted a handcrafted sandalwood box with 'das danam' to the US President and and 7.5-carat lab-grown green diamond to the First Lady...

Months before US President's 81st birthday in November, Modi gifted him a handcrafted delicate silver boxes, which contains symbolic das danam - also known as ten donations that are made when a person becomes 'Drishta Sahasrachandro' or the one who has seen one thousand full moons when he completes the age of eighty years and eight months...

During Sahasra Poorna Chandrodayam celebrations, there is a custom of das danam or donations of ten different kinds, which include - gaudaan (cow), bhudaan (land), tildaan (sesame seeds), hiranyadaan (gold), ajyadaan (ghee or clarified butter), dhaanyadaan (food grains), vastradaan (clothes), guddaan (jaggery), raupyadaan (silver) and lavandaan (salt)," as per the ANI report...

A handcrafted silver coconut by the skilled artisans of West Bengal for gaudaanA fragrant piece of sandalwood from Mysore for bhudaan White sesame seeds from Tamil Nadu for tildaan A 24-carat pure and hallmarked gold coin, handcrafted in Rajasthan, for hiranyadaan Ghee from Punjab for ajyadaan Handwoven textured tussar silk cloth from Jharkhand for vastradaan Long-grained rice from Uttarakhand for dhaanyadaan Jaggery from Maharashtra for guddaan Crafted by Rajasthan artisans, a 99.5 per cent pure and hallmarked silver coin as raupyadaan Lavan or salt from Gujarat for lavandaan..

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