Religious & Spiritual Statue

Features

• Kapila head is sometimes linked with sage Kapila, the founder of Sankhya system ofphilosophyand considered as one of Vishnus many incarnations. The images of Vishnu Vaikuntha are very rare. Besides a couple of Gupta sculptures in relief form there are two other better known Vishnu Vaikuntha images, one in the National Museum, New Delhi with Kashmir being acclaimed its provenance, and other, in situ installed in the Lakshmi-Narayana temple, Chamba in Himachala. The image in the National Museum is typical of Kashmiri art style as it prevailed in the ninth century. The image installed in the Lakshmi-Narayana temple, Chamba, though not as early as the other, also pursues Kashmiri art idiom. Both are four-headed rendered on the Vishnu Purana model. This brass-cast anodized in deep maroon for denoting dark oceanic blue, the Vishnus body colour, a most accomplished image of Vishnu Vaikuntha, has been cast obviously pursuing Gupta model and makes a subtle departure from the style of the other two Kashmir-style images not only in the number of heads but also in other things, especially in the types of subordinate images, attributes carried in the hands, body gestures among others.
• TheVishnu Puranais the earliest text to allude to the form of Vishnu Vaikuntha. With whatever variations, the allusion to the form in the Vishnu Purana too relates to the images formative or constitutive aspect, not to an exploit or set of circumstances that gave birth to such form. The Vishnu Purana alludes to Vishnu Vaikuntha as a four-headed form. In addition to the three, namely, Vasudeva : human head, Shamkarshana : Narsimha head, and Aniruddha : boar head, that this brass image has, the Vishnu Purana incorporates a fourth on the back, named Pradumnya : Kapila head, Vishnus raudra or wrathful form. As the Vishnu Purana has it, Vasudeva stood for bala strength, Shamkarshana, for jnana knowledge, Pradumnya, for aishwarya sovereignty, and Aniruddha, for shakti energy. This addition of the fourth head, which finds its visual transforms in Kashmiri sculptures as early as the eighth century, was not made perhaps for accomplishing Vishnus samagrata for it does not add any further aspect to his personality but, raudra being a form ofShiva, it might have been used for promoting acceptability of the image in both sects : Vaishnava and Shaiva.
• According to the Hindu religion, the term Om represents the primal sound of creation. It is the universe's first vibration. All additional vibrations can develop from this fundamental vibration. Om is the germ of ethereal sound, and it is via transcendental sound that the mind and senses may be transformed. This Om Diya in brass is a sacred and ornate oil lamp featuring the symbol "Om" from Hindu tradition. Lighting an Om Diya in brass not only illuminates physical space but also symbolizes the illumination of one's inner self, fostering a connection with the divine and invoking blessings in Hindu rituals and ceremonies.