You are looking at / bidding on a very nicely engraved brass statue of LORD VISHNU in standing position. The engraving work done in this statue looks beautiful. The dimensions are 6" X 2.5" X 1.5".

About Lord Vishnu :-   As preserver and restorer, Vishnu is a very popular deity with Hindu worshippers. The root of his name, vish, means ‘to pervade’, and he is regarded as the all-pervading presence, whose power has been manifested to the world in a variety of forms called avataras, or ‘descents’, in which a part of his divine essence was incarnated in a human or supernatural form. An avatar has appeared whenever there was urgent need to correct some great evil influence in the world. ‘When order, justice, and mortals are endangered’, remarked Vishnu, ‘I come down to earth.’ Though the devotees of Shiva propose twenty-eight incarnations for their own deity, it is the ten principal avatars of Vishnu that hold the stage in Hindu mythology.

Vishnu is generally represented pictorially as a handsome youth of a dark blue colour, and dressed like an ancient king. In his four hands he holds a  conch shell, a discus, a club, and a lotus flower. His vehicle is Garuda, the sun bird, enemy of all serpents. This antagonism is dramatically portrayed in Krishna's defeat of the water serpent Kaliya. Reminded of his divine nature by Balarama, Vishnu, lying as Krishna at the bottom of a pool bestirs himself and dances upon the threatening Kaliya's mighty head. Sparing the exhausted serpent king, Krishna said: ‘You shall no longer reside in the Yamuna River, but in the vastness of the ocean. Go! Moreover, I tell you that Garuda, the golden sun bird, deadly foe of all serpents and my vehicle through infinities of space, forever shall spare you, whom I have touched.’ It has been suggested that this popular legend recounts the supplanting of the local nature divinity by an anthro-pomorphic god, Krishna, who in turn was merged with Vishnu. A parallel in Greek myth could be Apollo's conquest of the earthbound serpent of Delphi, whose oracle he arrogated to himself after killing the python. The importance of Garuda was not restricted to Indian lore, since in Cambodian architecture the whole temple rests on the back of the mythical bird.

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