Lord Hanuman

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Most of these are bought for a doorway, a dashboard or a desk Hanuman is one of the few deities people keep outside the mandir as readily as in it, and the four places he ends up want four different pieces. A murti for the home shrine. A figure at the entrance, where it is the first thing seen on the way in and the last on the way out. A compact one on a car dashboard. A small one on an office desk or in a gym. The shrine piece wants a stable base and roughly five to eight inches of height. The entrance piece has to read from across a room, which usually means larger and plainer rather than more detailed, because fine relief disappears at four feet away. The dashboard piece has to be low, compact and heavy enough at the base to stay put on a bad road, sitting below your sightline and clear of any marked airbag cover; those are grouped in car dashboard idols . The desk piece is usually a face or a meditating form, which reads as sculpture rather than as a shrine and is easier to keep in a shared office. The forms, and what actually tells them apart Sinduri Hanuman is the orange-red form, and the colour is the entire point of it. Sindoor, vermilion, is applied to Hanuman murtis in temples across India and builds up over years into a coat thick enough to soften the features underneath. The tradition explains the practice through Hanuman applying sindoor to himself on learning that Sita wore it for Rama's wellbeing. Our sinduri pieces carry that colour in the finish rather than in applied paste, so it stays even and does not transfer to your hands. Panchmukhi Hanuman is the five-faced form, and the five are not five Hanumans. They are Hanuman facing east, Narasimha to the south, Garuda west, Varaha north and Hayagriva looking upward. The form belongs to the Mahiravana episode: Rama and Lakshmana had been carried off to the netherworld, five lamps set in five directions had to be put out in the same instant, and Hanuman took five faces to reach all five at once. Buyers c