# Handcrafted Makrana White Marble Panchmukhi Shiva Lingam, 18in > Master-carved Makrana white marble Panchmukhi lingam, an 18-inch home-mandir piece with five faces of Shiva around a single shaft. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-panchmukhi-shiva-lingam-18in **Business:** Tilak Mandirwala — made-to-order marble temples (mandirs), statues and decorative handicrafts. Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Founded 2006. **How it works:** Each piece is carved to order by the independent master sculptors TMW works with in Jaipur's Khajane Walon Ka Rasta sculptors' market. TMW designs the piece with the customer, briefs the sculptor, and follows it through to delivery and installation. **Pricing:** request-for-quote — pieces are custom, so the site carries no list prices. **Ships:** across India; export enquiries welcome. **About the image:** a design visualisation, not a photograph of stock on hand. The piece is carved to order after the design is agreed. **Availability:** made to order. ## The Makrana block and the four carved faces Five faces, one stone. The Panchmukhi form gathers Shiva's five aspects (Sadyojata, Vamadeva, Aghora, Tatpurusha and the upward-facing Ishana) around a single lingam shaft, and this 18-inch piece carves four of them in the round with the fifth understood at the crown, the way Agamic workshops have set them for generations. The marble is Makrana, quarried in Nagaur district of Rajasthan: the same calcite-dense white stone used in the Taj Mahal and the Dilwara temples. It holds a hairline chisel line without crumbling, which is exactly what a face-carved lingam demands. Work begins with a single block, rough-cut to the yoni's rectangle and the shaft's ovoid before any face is touched. The artisan lays out the four profiles around the drum so no one crowds its neighbour, then cuts down through the jata, the beaded rows at the collar and the tripundra on each brow. Faces, eyelids and the jaldhari lip are finished entirely by hand, with no machine touching them, and the surface is carried up through progressively finer abrasives to a satin polish that keeps the grain readable rather than mirroring it. ## Five faces, and where the lingam sits A lingam is aniconic by nature, and the Panchmukhi variant is the classical exception: the formless is given faces without becoming a figure. Each face carries the horizontal tripundra of the Shaiva tradition, and the yoni base runs out to a spout, the jaldhari, that carries abhishekam water clear of the shaft. Convention sets that spout to the north, so the piece is oriented within the mandir rather than simply placed facing the viewer. At 18 inches with a roughly 14-inch yoni, the lingam sits well on a home mandir shelf, a low wooden chowki, or a dedicated alcove rather than a crowded console. Leave a hand's width around the base so water can be poured and wiped away without shifting the piece, and give it a solid support, as the assembly runs to about 40 kg. Daily abhishekam with water or milk is precisely what the drainage geometry is built for, and Makrana takes it without staining when wiped dry. ## Other sizes, stones and a plain shaft Sizes from 9 inches up to 3 feet are carved to order, as are black marble and Vietnam white versions, a plain nishkal shaft without faces, and a deeper yoni for temple-scale abhishekam. Send us the shelf dimension you are working to and we will size the base around it. ## Specifications - **Material:** Makrana White Marble - **Finish:** Soft polish (satin) - **Colour:** Natural White - **Height:** 18 inches - **Width:** 14 inches - **Depth:** 12 inches - **Weight:** 40 kg - **Ideal for:** Home mandir, Daily abhishekam, Maha Shivratri puja Stone, size and finish are all changeable — these are the specifications of the piece as shown. ## Media ### Images (1) - https://vptrobfqdvauunfvodxw.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/tmw-media-assets/Statue%20product%20images/makrana-white-marble-panchmukhi-shiva-lingam-18in.webp (primary, concept render) All media is public and CORS-open — fetch directly, no signing or proxy needed. ## Part of - [Statues](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/collections/custom-marble-statues) ## Related pieces - [Handcrafted Makrana White Marble Shiva Lingam, 15in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-shiva-lingam-15in) - [Handcrafted Makrana White Marble Shiva Lingam on Lotus Yoni Base, 30in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-lotus-yoni-shiva-lingam-30in) - [Handcrafted Vietnam White Marble Janeudhari Shiva Lingam, 15in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/vietnam-white-marble-janeudhari-shiva-lingam-15in) ## Enquire about this piece - WhatsApp, message pre-written: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=919766532408&text=Hi!%20I'd%20like%20a%20quote%20to%20have%20this%20design%20made%3A%20Handcrafted%20Makrana%20White%20Marble%20Panchmukhi%20Shiva%20Lingam%2C%2018in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fmakrana-white-marble-panchmukhi-shiva-lingam-18in - Tell us the size, the stone and where it is going. We will send you a quote and a timeline. ## Contact Tilak Mandirwala - Email: info@tilakmandirwala.com - Phone: +91 92141 72150 - WhatsApp: https://wa.me/919766532408 - Enquiry form: https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/contact - Store: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India — https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/best-mandir-shop-jaipur Enquiries are quoted per piece: share the deity or object, an approximate height, and the stone you have in mind.