# Makrana White Marble Shrinathji Murti, 18 in > Sculptor-carved Makrana white marble Shrinathji. The Nathdwara svarupa as an 18-inch arched stele for a home mandir built in light stone. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-shrinathji-murti-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 arched stele Shrinathji is carved here as he is meant to be seen, as a svarupa in relief against a plain arched stele, not a figure standing free in the round. The stone is Makrana white marble from Nagaur district in Rajasthan, quarried since the fourteenth century and the same stone that faces the Taj Mahal. It reads as a bright natural white with a faint cream warmth rather than a cold blue-white, and its close, lightly sugary grain holds fine detail (the beaded malas, the folded patka, the U of the tilak) without crumbling at the edges. At 18 inches the stele and its stepped lotus plinth are worked from a single block. ## How the Shrinathji murti is carved Every piece is made to order. We design it with you, including the proportions, the depth of the relief and how plain or how worked the arch should be, then brief the sculptor and follow the work through to your door. It is carved for you by the master sculptors we work with in Jaipur, artist families who have shaped devotional stone for generations: rough block, primary massing, then the slow detail pass in which the face, the hands and the ornament are cut and finished entirely by hand. Nothing machine-finished goes near the face. The satin polish is brought up by hand so the surface glows rather than mirrors, and light settles into the carving instead of bouncing off it. ## The Nathdwara iconography this follows The svarupa follows Nathdwara exactly. His left arm is raised above the head, the hand cupped and reaching the arch. This is the lifting of Govardhan, carried by the gesture alone, which is why no hill is ever shown. The right hand is closed in a fist at the waist with the thumb out, the feet stand flat and frontal, and lotus stalks rest in the crook of the right arm. He is a child of about seven, eyes half-closed and downcast, wearing the U-shaped urdhva-pundra tilak of the Vallabh Sampradaya. There is no flute. Shrinathji is not the Venugopal form, and the Pushtimarg tradition founded by Vallabhacharya has held this iconography fixed since the murti settled at Nathdwara in 1672. ## Fitting an 18-inch stele in a niche An 18-inch stele suits a home mandir or a wall niche where the murti is met close and daily rather than seen across a room. Allow roughly 24 inches of clear height above the shelf so the arch is not crowded. The flat back sits against a rear wall or inside a shallow alcove, and the depth of the relief keeps the shadow line legible under a single soft downlight. Light stone also takes shringar well: vagha, mala and mukut can change with the season, and the marble stays the quiet thing behind them. ## Sizes from 9 to 36 inches Sizes run from 9 inches for a compact mandir up to 36 inches for a larger shrine, in Makrana white marble, Vietnam white marble, black stone, Dholpur pink sandstone or cast marble dust. The arch can stay plain, as here, or carry the carved stele companions: cows, lion, peacocks, parrot and sages. Send us your niche measurements on WhatsApp and we will work the proportions back from them. ## Specifications - **Material:** Makrana White Marble - **Finish:** Soft polish (satin) - **Colour:** Warm White - **Height:** 18 inches - **Width:** 9 inches - **Depth:** 5 inches - **Weight:** 20 kg - **Ideal for:** Home mandir, Pooja room, Daily darshan 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-shrinathji-murti-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 - [Small Marble Shrinathji Murti on Lotus Chowki, 9 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/small-shrinathji-marble-murti-9in) - [Shrinathji, Yamunaji and Mahaprabhuji Marble Set, 18 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/shrinathji-yamunaji-mahaprabhuji-marble-set-18in) - [Shrinathji Mukharvind Marble Wall Panel, 18 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/shrinathji-mukharvind-marble-panel-18in) ## 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%20Makrana%20White%20Marble%20Shrinathji%20Murti%2C%2018%20in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fmakrana-white-marble-shrinathji-murti-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.