# Makrana White Marble Standing Parshvanath Kayotsarga Murti, 31in > A 31-inch Parshvanath in Makrana white marble, standing in kayotsarga beneath a seven-hooded naga canopy. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-standing-parshvanath-kayotsarga-murti-31in **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 stone Makrana white marble comes out of the quarries at Makrana, in Nagaur district, Rajasthan, and it is the stone Jain patrons have returned to for centuries. The Dilwara temples at Mount Abu are cut from the same seam. It is a dense, calcitic marble with a fine crystalline grain that takes an edge cleanly, which matters on a Jina murti where the whole reading of the figure depends on small carved facts: the srivatsa on the chest, the beaded rim of a kandora, the individual scales on a naga hood. The colour is a bright natural white with the faintest warm undertone, threaded here and there with hairline grey veins no wider than a pencil line. Light travels a short way into the stone before it comes back, so thin sections such as the fingertips and the outer hoods of the canopy glow softly from within rather than reading as flat chalk. ## Reading the iconography This is Bhagwan Parshvanath, the twenty-third Tirthankara, carved to the Shvetambara Murtipujak convention. Two things identify him and nothing else does: the seven-hooded naga canopy arching above the head, and the small coiled snake lanchhana on the front of the plinth. Every Tirthankara shares the srivatsa diamond on the bare chest and the nasagradrishti, the gaze settled toward the tip of the nose; the emblem below the feet is what tells a devotee which of the twenty-four stands before them. The Shvetambara markers are carved in as well: the kandora waistband with its kachota pleats at the hips, hair shown rather than absent, and the prominent open eyes of the chakshus convention, adopted so the worshipper stands in front of a living Tirthankara rather than a sleeping one. ## The kayotsarga posture Kayotsarga means the abandonment of the body, and it is one of only two postures a Jina is ever shown in. The figure stands entirely upright, weight even on both feet, with the arms hanging straight down and deliberately held free of the torso. That gap is the difficult part of the carve. Each arm has to be released from the block along its full length without a supporting strut behind it, and the marble on either side of the wrist ends up only a few centimetres thick. That is the point where a single wrong chisel stroke costs the whole piece. The rest of the modelling is kept restrained on purpose: a shallow chest, a soft belly line, no tension anywhere in the shoulders. Stillness is the subject, and the sculptor's job is to leave nothing in the stone that contradicts it. ## Sizing it for a derasar or an entrance At 31 inches the murti stands about two feet seven inches from the base of the lotus plinth to the tip of the central hood, roughly 11 inches across at the widest point of the canopy and 9 inches deep, and weighs around 17 kilograms. That is a size that works in two specific places. In a derasar side-shrine or a household ghar-derasar it sits on a chowki or masonry ledge and brings the face close to the standing devotee's own eye level, which is what the chakshus convention is for. At an entrance, on a low pedestal against a plain wall, the vertical kayotsarga silhouette reads clearly from across a hall. Give it a plinth of 12 to 18 inches if you want the eyes at standing height, and leave a hand's breadth of clear wall behind the canopy. ## Commissioning and care Every piece is carved to order by the master sculptors we have worked with in Jaipur for three generations, so the height, the surface finish and the sect convention are all decided before the block is opened rather than chosen off a shelf. A standing murti of this size takes eight to twelve weeks through carving, detailing, finishing and crating. The surface shown here is a soft satin polish, which keeps the depth of the stone without the hard specular glare of a mirror finish; a fully matte honed surface and a high polish are both available instead. Looking after it is undemanding: dust with a soft dry cloth, wipe spills promptly, and keep acidic cleaners and lime-scale removers well away from the marble, since calcite etches on contact. If the murti receives abhishek, dry the plinth seat afterwards so water does not sit in the lotus petals. ## Specifications - **Material:** Makrana White Marble - **Finish:** Soft polish (satin) - **Colour:** White - **Height:** 31 inches - **Width:** 11 inches - **Depth:** 9 inches - **Weight:** 17 kg - **Ideal for:** Derasar and ghar-derasar shrines, Entrance and foyer pedestal 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-standing-parshvanath-kayotsarga-murti-31in.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 - [Makrana White Marble Simandhar Swami Murti with Mugat, 18in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-simandhar-swami-murti-with-mugat-18in) - [Makrana White Marble Mahavir Swami Mulnayak with Full Parikar, 41in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-mahavir-swami-mulnayak-full-parikar-41in) - [Makrana White Marble Shankheshwar Parshvanath Murti, 21in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-shankheshwar-parshvanath-murti-21in) ## 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%20Standing%20Parshvanath%20Kayotsarga%20Murti%2C%2031in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fmakrana-white-marble-standing-parshvanath-kayotsarga-murti-31in - Tell us the size, the stone and where it is going. 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