He split the mountain in two for the love of his dead wife (8 photos)

Amazing stories that really happened always associated with wealth or fame. And the case I'm about to tell this time, is not like anything else.





In fact, today's story is as incredible as it is touching. After all, Dashrat Manji literally turned a mountain in the name of love, using only a hammer and a chisel.



Dashrat Manji

Despite the fact that few people in the world know about this man nicknamed "Mountain Man", in India he is very popular and is a symbol perseverance, willpower and devotion to his idea.

Dashrat was born in 1934 in the Indian state of Bihar, and if more precisely, in a small village near the city of Gaya, whose name sounds like Jalor. The man came from a lower caste, which meant that his whole life was a struggle for survival.

Manji started working when he was not even 10 years old. A little getting stronger, he went to even more difficult work - in coal mines Dhanbad. After working there for 7 years, Dashrat was finally able to afford marry a local girl with whom he has been in love for many years. Her name was Falguni Devi.





Gelor in 2020

After that, Manji became a day laborer on agricultural fields, earning $1 a day, barely enough to eat for young family. Soon a child was born to them, and Dashrat began to work more more to feed their loved ones.

Soon Falguni became pregnant for the second time, she and Dashrat with they were looking forward to the birth of their second child, but the trouble came - from nowhere waited.

The village of Jelor, where the Dashrat family lived, was surrounded by mountains and located away from major cities. Because of this the villagers had to make a walk every day through dangerous cliffs, because there were simply no roads there.



Gelor and surrounding mountains. Photo 2014

In India, it is customary for wives to bring food to their husbands. Here in this once, in the spring of 1959, Falguni, being 8 months pregnant, went with food and drink for Dashrat. Unfortunately it started to rain and Devi slipped on rocks...

When the inhabitants of Gelor found Falguni at the foot of the mountain, life was already left her body. Perhaps if the woman had been taken to the hospital in time, then Devi could have been saved. But the nearest clinic was 70 kilometers, and they simply did not have time to take her there. Wife died right on hands of Dashrat.

Manji was heartbroken and angry at the same time because of it. monstrous misfortune. He swore to himself and the people of Gelor that he would not allow a repetition of such tragedies. To do this, he was going to lay a short cut right through the mountain.



Dashrat Manji at work

During the day, a man plowed the fields, earning money to feed daughter, and in the evenings he took his simple tools and went to the mountains. There, with unthinkable persistence, he bit into the rocks, leaving everything on the stones. their strength. His every blow echoed in the valley, and people wondered why he still hasn't quit this, in their opinion, a disastrous business.

- Everyone said to Dashrat: "You can't do it", "U nothing will work out for you" or "Quit doing stupid things" - says his nephew, Dahu Manji. - But uncle silently waved his hammer and continued to work.

It remains to admire the diligence and strength of Dashrat, who for the next 22 years he worked to make a road through the mountain. He worked even in winter, when the temperature dropped below 0 degrees, then Dashrat kindled a fire on a rocky slope to make it easier for him split the next boulder.



Dashrat Manji cuts a path through the mountain

And even as the drought hit Gelor, causing Manji to forced to move to the city, he still continued to come to the village and, sparing no effort, crushed stones, putting all his love for deceased wife.

By the way, local residents eventually began to help him, someone brought him food, and someone helped to carry stones. There were also those who did not I liked Dashrat's initiative. So, his father constantly scolded his son for the fact that he did not marry a second time, and the police threatened to arrestbeat him up "dangerously discrediting the Indian authorities."

By this time, Manji had already become quite famous in India, and, to Fortunately, he managed to escape prison. Just at that time they gave him nickname "Mountain Man" or "Highlander Man".

Meanwhile, the Dashrat road through the mountain widened and deepened. To In 1982, he finally managed to make a passage 9 meters wide, 110 meters, and in depth it reached 12 meters. Manji kept his promise given 22 years ago.



Road in the rock, made by Dashrat Manji. Photo 2004

Thanks to the appearance of this road, the path to the city was reduced from 70 up to 17 kilometers. In addition, now Gelora can be reached by car, and people no longer have to be afraid of slipping on slippery stones or not wait for the help of doctors.

Dashrat Manji died in 2007 at the age of 73 from cancer, but his the legacy lives on and serves the people of Gelor to this day. Little in history examples when people made similar gifts to their native land. And we can say for sure that the memory of this man will live for a long time years, maybe even centuries.

Four years after Dashrat's death, in 2011, the government of India paved the road to Jelor, completing what Manji started over 50 years ago.



The road carved by Dashrat Manji today

The history of the creation of this road, based on the biography of Dashrat Manji, was embodied in the Indian film "Manjhi: Man of the Mountain" (Manjhi: The Mountain Man), released in 2015.

The film was a great success at the box office and since then Dashrat has become a real hero of India - a symbol of perseverance and perseverance. That's the way love is One person can change the life of an entire village. Example, deserving of infinite respect.