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Devanshi Sanghvi (8), a girl who refused her family’s Rp918 billion diamond business inheritance and chose to become a Jain nun. Photo/WION
NEW DELHI – An eight-year-old girl refuses to accept a business fortune diamond $61 million (over Rp.918 billion) family that he was supposed to inherit. Instead, she chose to become a nun.
Devanshi Sanghvi became heir to the Surat, India-based diamond business “Sanghvi and Sons”. This business has many branches with an annual turnover of billions of rupees.
However, the headstrong girl chose a life of religious solitude when she entered the Jain monkhood.
His family had been part of the ancient Jain faith, which practiced compassion for all beings, vegetarianism and non-violence.
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Her parents told local media that their daughter wanted to devote her whole life to religion because she planned to become a nun.
Quoting the Times of India, Saturday (21/1/2023), Devanshi has been following a strict routine of three prayer sessions per day since he was a child.
A family friend also claims Devanshi once walked some 700km with other nuns, embracing their way of life before she officially became a nun.
They told NDTV: “Devanshi showed religious inclinations from the time he was a toddler. He had followed the ascetic life from a very young age.”
Another outlet, UniLad, reported that Devanshi began her journey to becoming a nun with a four-day “diksha” ceremony.
