# Handcrafted Sagyin White Marble Nilkanth Varni Penance Statue, 42in

> A 42in Sagyin white marble Nilkanth Varni balanced on one leg in tapasya. Austere Himalayan penance carved as a temple centrepiece.

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**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.

## Nilkanth Varni frozen at his penance

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.

## Sagyin white marble, the Burmese statuary stone

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, and 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.

## Specifications

- **Material:** Sagyin White Marble
- **Finish:** Soft polish (satin)
- **Colour:** Natural White
- **Height:** 42 inches
- **Width:** 16 inches
- **Depth:** 14 inches
- **Weight:** 95 kg
- **Ideal for:** Temple centrepiece, Haveli mandir, Statement installation

Stone, size and finish are all changeable — these are the specifications of the piece as shown.

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