An eight-year-old Indian girl
gave up a million-dollar inheritance and entered a strict religious order of the Jain faith this week.
Devanshi Sanghvi
was due to inherit the
Sanghvi and Sons jewelery business in Surat, known locally as "Diamond City" for its importance in the world trade in precious stones.
Devanshi with his parents.
The girl's vocation
The family announced this week the vocation of Devanshi, who was feted in a
four-day ceremony
until Wednesday she arrived in an elephant-drawn carriage at the temple where she changed from luxurious clothing to
a simple white cotton outfit.
Devanshi arrived with her parents and sister in an elephant-drawn carriage to the temple.
The girl, known among members of the Jain community for her piety, "
never watched television
, movies or went to shopping malls and restaurants," said a close friend of the family.
Arriving at the temple, she changed her luxurious clothing for a simple white cotton outfit.
He is one of the youngest people to have performed the "diksha" ceremony to abandon his material possessions and enter Jain monasticism.
His family business, founded in 1981, has a net worth of about
$60 million
, according to
ICRA
, an Indian credit rating agency.
AFP Agency.
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