HISTORY: Magnificent Stone Sculpture Of A Woman With Long Braided Hair; Satyam, Shivam, Sudaram
In most cultures, beauty has been seen as an attribute of the divine. Satyam, Shivam, Sudaram. Truth is God, God is Beautiful. In Vedic times, beauty was so important that it had a goddess. She was called Lakshmi, hence the popular Indian cosmetic brand called Lakme, Lakme being the Europeanised ‘Lakhmi’ which is the vernacular form of Lakshmi. In many temples, you can see the goddess with heavy jewelry, and flawlessly hair braided statues. One such statue will find in Tamil Nadu Bhu Varaha Swamy temple.
Bhu Varaha Swamy temple is a Hindu temple, located at Srimushnam, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture, the temple is dedicated to Varaha, the boar-avatar of the god Vishnu and his consort Lakshmi as Ambujavalli Thayar. The temple had contributions from Medieval Chilas of the 10th century with later expansions by Thanjavur Nayak King Achuthappa Nayak(1560-1614 AD).
There you can see a fantastic Bhartiya woman’s hairstyle on a statue and the life-size image of the king and his brothers are found in the sixteen pillared halls of the temple. An epigraph dated 1068 in the nearby Shiva temples indicates gifts by Virarajendra Chola (1063–1070 AD) to the Varaha shrine.
The most eye-catching feature of this temple’s architectural beauty attracted the most is the beautiful sculptures with woman’s braid of hair done on granite stones are very natural.
