{"product_id":"virat-swaroop-of-sreenathji-in-pichwai-by-naveen-soni","title":"Virat Swaroop of Sreenathji in Pichwai by Naveen Soni","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eThis monumental Pichwai painting by Naveen Soni renders Shrinathji, not in his familiar child-form, but in the Virat Swaroop, the Universal Form in which Krishna revealed the infinite, all-encompassing cosmos to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, rendered using pure silver leafing and pigments on cotton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePichwai painting is a devotional textile art tradition from Nathdwara, Rajasthan, created to be hung behind the murti of Shrinathji, a form of Krishna worshipped at the Nathdwara temple. Traditionally rendered in natural pigments, gold, and silver leaf on cloth, Pichwai paintings depict the deity across the seasons and festivals of the Pushtimarg devotional calendar, combining fine detail with a scale meant to fill and frame the sanctum itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCentral to this painting is Shrinathji, as his sixteen arms fan outward on either side, holding the Sudarshana Chakra and mace(gada) , bow and arrow, sword and shield, weapons of cosmic destruction, alongside the lotus, conch and kamandalu, emblems of creation and sustenance, while the foremost hands turn toward the viewer in Abhaya and Varada mudra, gestures of fearlessness and blessing. He is rendered in his classic dark skin, dressed in flowing yellow garments (pitambar) and adorned with an extraordinary density of diamond, pearl, gold and lotus ornaments - necklaces layered from throat to waist, anklets, toe rings, bracelets, armlets, rings, earrings and a nose ring, together with garlands of flowers and lotus beads, a diamond set at nose and chin. His morpankh headdress is bejewelled with motifs of peacocks. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe stands beneath a Rajput-style scalloped archway, ornamented with a central floret and encircling leaf-work, supported by two round, tapering pillars, his feet resting upon a full-bloomed lotus, rising from the waters of the Yamuna, where lotus and water-lily blooms open beside two golden ducks and four fish rendered in fine outline.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe painting is worked against a warm beige ground bordered in terracotta-red, with pure silver leafing used throughout to catch and hold light across the deity's ornament and the surrounding waters, a technical choice that lends the entire composition a luminous, otherworldly quality appropriate to its subject: the moment the finite form of the beloved child-god opens to reveal the infinite.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naveen Soni","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49026297561302,"sku":null,"price":170000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/1498\/files\/1._Virat_Swaroop_of_Sreenathji_in_Pichwai_by_Naveen_Soni.jpg?v=1783944002","url":"https:\/\/www.memeraki.com\/products\/virat-swaroop-of-sreenathji-in-pichwai-by-naveen-soni","provider":"Memeraki Retail and Tech Pvt Ltd.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}