Statue

  Sitting cow/Nandi brass made antique decorative statue Made In  : Brass metal with Hand carving Finish  :  Antique Color  :  Metallic Yellow and Black Mix Weight  :  8.380 kilogram Size  :   15.2 inch length, 6.8 inch wide, 8.8 inch in height. Condition : New Excellent   The word Nandi has come from Tamil root word, which means to grow, to flourish, or to appear, which was used to indicate growing or flourishing of white bulls, as well as divine bull nandi.The Sanskrit word nandi has the meaning of happy, joy, and satisfaction, the properties of divine guardian of Shiva- Nandi.Almost all Shiva temples display stone-images of a seated Nandi, generally facing the main shrine.   It is recently documented, that the application of the name Nandi to the bull is in fact a development of recent syncretism of different regional beliefs within Saivism.The name Nandi was widely used instead for an anthropomorphic door-keeper of Kai...