Handcrafted Sagyin White Marble Nilkanth Varni Penance Statue, 42in

This 42-inch murti captures Nilkanth Varni — the teenage renunciant form of Bhagwan Swaminarayan — frozen at the height of his tapasya, balanced perfectly on one leg in the ek-pad penance. During his years-long pilgrimage across the forests and Himalayan foothills of India, the boy-yogi undertook austerities of extraordinary severity; this piece renders that austerity as something monumental and still. His eyes are gently closed, his hands cupped at the heart in a serene yogic gesture, the whole figure poised in a silence that seems to hold its breath. Every ascetic attribute is carved with devotional accuracy: the matted-hair jata gathered into a topknot, the tilak-chandlo marked on the forehead, a deerskin (mrigacharma) draped across one shoulder, the simple ascetic loincloth, and the rudraksha-bead ornaments at the arms and ankles. A kamandalu water-pot rests on the plinth beside him — the wandering renunciant's only companion. The misty Himalayan dawn tableau behind the figure places him exactly where the tradition remembers his penance: high, remote, and cold. The statue is hand-carved from Sagyin White Marble, the canonical Burmese statuary stone quarried in the Sagyin Hills near Mandalay. It reads as a cool, milky white with a faint bluish undertone — softer and more temple-quiet than bright Vietnam white, never warm-cream like Makrana. Light cloudy zones prized in the Burmese tradition as "movement in the stone" give the surface a living depth, and a soft satin polish lets the fine calcite glow gently from within at the thinner edges. At 42 inches, this is a statement installation — sized to anchor a temple sanctum, a haveli mandir, or a devotional hall as its centrepiece. As a made-to-order piece curated through Tilak Mandirwala's network of master sculptors, the proportions, finish, and base can be adapted to your space. Each murti is carved to order, quality-checked, and delivered ready for installation and consecration.