# Handcrafted Marble Dust Katyayani Devi Statue, 18in > Studio-cast marble dust Katyayani Devi seated in padmasana, an 18-inch home-altar murti with her lion at rest and a soft satin finish. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/marble-dust-katyayani-devi-statue-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. ## What marble dust is, and how it is finished Marble dust composite is not quarried. It is cast. Crushed marble left over from the Rajasthan stone trade is bound with resin, poured into a sculptor's mould and cured hard. At arm's length it carries the natural white tone and quiet density of solid marble at roughly a third of the cost, and it is light enough to lift onto a shelf with one hand. On this 18-inch Katyayani the grain reads very fine and uniform, with a faint speckle of calcite catching the light across the folds of her sari and along the lotus petals. Every piece begins with a master model hand-sculpted by one of the independent Jaipur studios TMW works with. The mould is drawn from that model, the composite is cast, and then the real work begins. The crown, the face, the fingers curled around the lotus stem and the lion's mane are all hand-finished with fine files and progressive sanding. Nothing on the face or the hands is left to the mould line. The surface is taken to a soft satin polish: bright enough to catch altar light, matte enough to keep every strand of jewellery legible. ## Katyayani's Navratri form and where she sits Katyayani is the sixth of the nine Navadurga forms, honoured on the sixth night of Navratri. She is named for the sage Katyayana, in whose ashram the Puranas say she took form to end Mahishasura. The Bhagavata Purana records the gopis of Braj keeping the Katyayani vrata through the month of Margashirsha, which is why she is remembered as the goddess prayed to for a good match and a settled household. Here she is seated rather than in battle, the sword still raised, a lotus held aloft, the remaining hands in abhaya (fear not) and varada (the granting of a wish), and her lion resting beneath the lotus seat. At 18 inches she is built for a shelf, not a floor. Allow about ten inches of width and a hand's breadth of clearance behind the crown; a mandir niche, a wall-mounted altar or the upper shelf of a wooden pooja unit all suit her. Home shrines are customarily set in the north-east of the house with the murti facing west, so the person praying looks toward the sunrise. Because the casting is light, she also travels well. Families who set out all nine Navadurga forms through Navratri can bring her out and put her away without a second pair of hands. ## Other sizes, stones and a painted finish Everything is made to order. The same Katyayani can be cast at 12, 24 or 30 inches, carved instead in solid Makrana or Vietnam white marble if you want quarried stone, or hand-painted in traditional polychrome with a gilded crown for a festival altar. Tell us the shelf you are filling and we will size her to it. ## Specifications - **Material:** Marble Dust Composite - **Finish:** Soft polish (satin) - **Colour:** Cast White - **Height:** 18 inches - **Width:** 10 inches - **Depth:** 9 inches - **Weight:** 11 kg - **Ideal for:** Small home altar, Navratri set, Affordable gifting 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/marble-dust-katyayani-devi-statue-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 Marble Dust Chandraghanta Devi Statue, 2ft](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/marble-dust-chandraghanta-devi-statue-2ft) - [Handcrafted Dholpur Pink Sandstone Shailputri Durga Statue, 18in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/dholpur-pink-sandstone-shailputri-durga-18in) - [Handcrafted Black Granite South Indian Mahishasuramardini Durga Statue, 5ft](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/black-granite-south-indian-mahishasuramardini-durga-5ft) ## 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%20Marble%20Dust%20Katyayani%20Devi%20Statue%2C%2018in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fmarble-dust-katyayani-devi-statue-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.