Brass Sculpture

Venkateswara is known as Śrīnivāsa, Bālājī, Vēṅkaṭa, Venkata Ramana, Vēṅkaṭāchalapati, Tirupati Timmapp, and Govindha, is a form of the Hindu god Vishnu. Venkateswara's most prominent temple is the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple located in Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh in Southern India. It is said that lord Vishnu incarnated in this form of balaji to guide his devotees in this kali age. Apart from this there is a story in puranic scripts quoting to this incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The puranic story is that there was a doubt between the sages on who is the supreme god within the trimurthi’s and sage brigu went on to find out the same and that led to the incarnation of Lord balaji. Venkateswara literally means "Lord of Venkata". The word is a combination of the words Venkata (the name of a hill in Andhra Pradesh) and isvara ("Lord"). According to the Brahmanda and Bhavishyottara Puranas, the word "Venkata" means "destroyer of sins", deriving ...

Lord Krishna the god of compassion, tenderness and love is one of the main deities worshipped in Hinduism. Krishna is said to be puranavathari as the combination of Vishnu, Narayan and Krishna. Krishna is worshipped as the eighth avatar of lord Vishnu. Krishna is the depicted as the central character in the famous epic Mahabharata. Lord Krishna is depicted as the chariot rider for the prince Arjuna. When Arjuna refuses to fight against the gowravas who are his kins and cousins assisting them were his teacher.  Krishna then advises him about the nature of life, ethics, and morality when one is faced with a war between good and evil, the impermanence of matter, the permanence of the soul and the good, duties and responsibilities, the nature of true peace and bliss and the different types of yoga to reach this state of bliss and inner liberation. This conversation between Krishna and Arjuna is presented as a discourse called the Bhagavad Gita Krishna is often depicted wear...

Lord Ganesha (The elephant head god) is one of the most worshipped deities in Hindu mythology. Lord Ganesha is considered and worshipped as the Supreme Being and the god of beginnings throughout India and many other Asian countries Ganesha is a popular figure in Indian art. Unlike those of some deities, representations of Ganesha show wide variations and distinct patterns changing over time. He may be portrayed standing, dancing, heroically taking action against demons, playing with his family as a boy, or sitting down on an elevated seat, or engaging in a range of contemporary situations. Ganesha is referred to and depicted by many forms and names in Ganesha Tanjore paintings and other art forms by the patrons and devotees which have specific meaning for each in puranic scripts. Some of the names are Vinayaga, Ganapathy, Vigneshwara, Pillayar, Lambodara, Ekadanta, etc. . . . . each of these names has a significant meaning and a story of explanation behind them. Lord ...