7.5 inches X 4.2 inches X 4.2 inches
An exotic brass-cast, the artist of this tiny statue has ingeniously created out of a single image a number of forms, mainly the ten-faced Shiva-linga – Shiva perceived as phallus, a temple-‘shikhara’ – tower, as also an accomplished temple with various components. Shiva-linga, one of the two forms, the other being Lord Ganesh, his son, that the artists have most experimented with, has been conceived in this brass image as aggregate of all forms, born or unborn, for they all consist in linga, as also in the temple – the miniaturized vision of cosmos, and also in the temple’s ascendance which its ‘shikhara’ symbolises. The ‘shikhara’ in its ascendance leads the eye to void beyond form where all forms merge and disappear, as also wherefrom all forms emerge. In Shaivite thought, it is in Shiva as linga that all forms dissolve and disappear and it is in him that all forms become manifest. Thus, the diversity of forms which manifests in this brass statue is only the other form of unity which it has as linga.

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