Item name: Fake Gauri Shankar
Description: This is a fake Gauri Shankar made by skillfully gluing 2 five Mukhi Rudrakshas. It is purchased by one of our clients from a Rudraksha vendor in Nepal.
Please note: This type of a bead should not cost more than Rs.50 whereas our client paid Rs. 1500 for the same.

Item name: Fake Trijudi
Description: These are 3 five Mukhi Rudrakshas skillfully cut, carved and glued together to look like a Trijudi Rudraksha. It is purchased from a roadside vendor outside Trimbakeshwar shrine, India for Rs 100 by our awareness team which was initially offered for Rs 7000 & bargained to Rs 100.

Item name: Fake 14 Mukhi
Description: This is a fake 14 Mukhi Rudraksha bead. This is a product, which looks similar to Rudraksha bead but does not belong to Rudraksha family. This was purchased in Rishikesh by one of our clients.

Item name: Fake 1 Mukhi
Description: This is a 2 Mukhi Rudraksha with a Trishul, Om and snake carved over it and sold as a 1 Mukhi Rudraksha bead. This is a very skilful carving done by tribals in the outskirts of Nepal but easily available in India at places like Rishikesh & Haridwar in Uttaranchal.

Item name: Fake 9 Mukhi
Description: This is an original 6 Mukhi Rudraksha converted into a 9 Mukhi Rudraksha by skillful carving of 3 additional mukhis (facets) over it. It is purchased from a well renowned shop in Katmandu, Nepal. These types of beads are easily available at half the price of original beads in a number of shops in Haridwar & Rishikesh.

Item name: Fake 9 Mukhi with stem
Description: These are 2 five Mukhi Rudraksha beads skillfully joined to each other with stem making it a nine mukhi Rudraksha with 3 artificial mukhis.

Item name: Fake 1 Mukhi
Description: This bead is not a Rudraksha at all but looks very similar to a Rudraksha bead. The seller of these kinds of pieces generally claims that there is a Mukhi (facet) behind the pulp. It is commonly sold as a 1 Mukhi Rudraksha in different parts of India and Nepal

Item name: Cross Section
Description: The original view of the inner part of an original nine Mukhi Rudraksha bead, cut into two halves for awareness.

Item name: Fake 1 Mukhi
Description: 1 Mukhi Rudraksha carved from an ordinary piece of wood.

Tips of awareness: As mentioned above, these are the few pictures showing how duplication is taken place & how mukhis are increased or decreased on a original Rudraksha. These are some of the few ways the beads are duplicated. Similarly, there are number of other ways also of duplication of Rudraksha beads, which can be detected only by an experienced eye. It is come to the knowledge of our awareness team that apart from farmers of Rudraksha there are also certain group of people who skillfully fabricate original Rudrakshas by increasing or decreasing of Mukhis, who are not growers of Rudraksha but are called as "manufacturers" of Rudrakshas who manufacture/fabricate mukhis as per the requirements. These types of beads are not only available in Nepal but also available in abundance in Haridwar & Rishikesh & are being easily sold as original Rudrakshas at the same places. Their price varies from customer to customer. Hence, we highly recommend, buying Rudraksha Beads only from the seller or a vendor where u have immense faith & trust. We would also go to the extent to say do not purchase even from us if u do not trust us.

Tips on Purchase: Before purchasing a Rudraksha bead even from a trusted & reputed seller, we highly insist the purchaser to confirm the place of origin of the Rudraksha bead as price of Rudraksha beads varies from country of its origin. As on today, Nepalese beads are the costliest, and then come Indonesian beads and lastly Indian beads, but that does not mean the beads, which are not costly, are not good. This is for your knowledge because there are sellers online who sell Original Indian and Indonesian beads at the price of Nepalese beads.

Please note the effect of an original Rudraksha bead remains the same irrespective of its place of origin & the price but it is a must that it should be original & not fabricated or fake.

This section has been created by the awareness team of Rudra Blessings for knowledge & awareness of the people at large.

Possess The Power Of Rudraksha………… Rudrablessings

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