Bahubali is not a Tirthankara, which makes the scale of his veneration among Digambaras notable. The monolith at Shravanabelagola in Karnataka, seventeen metres high, was carved from a single granite outcrop around 981 CE under the patronage of Chavundaraya, a Ganga dynasty minister, and is among the largest free-standing statues in the world. The vines carved climbing his legs and the anthills at his feet depict the length of his motionless meditation, and the figure is entirely naked, which is the Digambara position made monumental. Getting to it requires climbing 614 rock-cut steps barefoot. Every twelve years the Mahamastakabhisheka draws several hundred thousand people. Two other colossal Bahubali statues stand at Karkala and Venur. The tradition's point in venerating him so heavily is that his renunciation came after victory and not instead of it — the ethical weight is in what he gave up having already won, and the tradition takes some care to distinguish that from having no choice.