PHOTOS: PM Modi unveils 800 kg Bhagwad Gita! This is what it looks like

Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the 'Astounding Bhagavad Gita' on February 26, hours after IAF launched massive strike on Pakistan based terror camps, decimating hundreds of terrorists. /Image: Twitter

"With an artistic touch of 18 exquisite paintings and an innovative elegant layout, the book has been printed in Milan, Italy, on YUPO synthetic paper so as to make it untearable and waterproof," the statement from ISKCON said. /Image: Twitter

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday unveiled a giant Bhagavad Gita, running into 670 pages and weighing 800 kg, at the ISKCON temple in Delhi. /Image: Twitter

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a worldwide confederation of more than 400 temples and runs 100 vegetarian restaurants and a wide variety of community serving projects. /Image: Twitter

Dubbed the 'Astounding Bhagavad Gita', and measuring 2.8 m by 2 m, it is billed as the "largest principle sacred text ever to be printed," according to ISCKON. /Image: Twitter