Significance

This auspicious day of the birth of Krishna, the direct manifestation of Vishnu, is celebrated in all parts of India with eclat and great enthusiasm. In the Bhagwad Gita, Krishna declares, “All this universe has been created by me, all things exist in me”. Aujuna addresses him as “the supreme universal spirit, the supreme dwelling, the eternal person, divine, prior to the gods, unborn, omnipresent”. His life is described in great detail in the Purans like Harivamsha and Shrimad Bhagvatam. The circumstances in which he was born were quite peculiar and mysterious. He incarnated himself primarily to destroy evil and wickedness and to establish Dharma.

History

The demon king Kansa was a great and dreaded tyrant, but he loved his sister Devaki, and at her marriage with Vasudev, out of great affection, he drove their marriage chariot. Then, all of a sudden everything went topsy-turvy when an oracle told him that the eighth child of Devaki shall be the cause of his doom and death. At this he would have killed her then and there, but Vasudev intervened and promised to give him over each and every child born to them. They kept their promise, and Kansa killed the six children born to them one after the other. The couple could do nothing except remain mute witness to this act of cruelty, for they were chained inside the prison and kept under strict vigil.

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The seventh child born to them was saved by divine grace.  The eighth son, Krishna, when he was born, it so happened that with divine grace, the guards fell asleep, their chains loosened and the gates of the prison cell opened.Vasudev took the child Krishna to his friend Nand’s house in Gokul. He entrusted his son with Nand and in exchange carried back the baby girl born to Nand and Yashoda. When Kansa heard of the birth of a girl child, he at once rushed to the prison cell, and lifted the female child high, catching it by the feet. When he was about to dash her against a wall she slipped from Kansa’s grip and assuming the beautiful form of the Divine Mother vanished in the sky saying, “Wretch! thy destroyer is flourishing in Gokul”. People at Gokul were rejoiced at the birth of a son to Nand and Yashoda.Yashoda was quite unaware of the exchange that had taken place during the night. Krishna grew up in Gokul and later killed Kansa.

Stone and clay sculptures dominate the east region. The south has the master sculptors of wood and metal. The central states have a rare talent of molding the iron. Various kinds of wood are used for making beautiful and intricate sculptures in the south India. These sculptures are made either in one block of wood or by joining more than two pieces together. The glue used for joining them is prepared by grinding tamarind seeds.  The use of wood is seen almost in every region however. The techniques of crafting are also different in each region.
The oldest and the most complex technique is the one used in the central Indian state Madhya Pradesh. The tribals of this region use the cire-perdu or the lost wax technique for making various metal sculptures. This method has been in practice for a very long time. The skill is passed from one generation to the other. The eastern state Orissa has in abundance a very soft stone known as soapstone. The artists of this region realize the minutest of their imagination on this gray stone. Kerala, a beautiful coastal state in the south produces the best of the rose wood sculptures of the country. The themes are everywhere related to the deities or the nature.

Apart from making individual idols of the Hindu deities, the sculptors also make idols with mythological significance. We have collected for you the best from every region. Discover and learn the heritage of the Indian sculptures.

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Maruti was no ordinary child. Once, when Anjana was away, he felt hungry and, mistaking the red disc of the sun to be a luscious, ripe fruit, he leap up and grabbed it. With no sun, an eclipse-like darkness cloaked all creation. Rahu, who made eclipses happen by swallowing the sun and the moon, was puzzled. Who had swallowed the sun? He set out on a mission to nail the culprit. Maruti, still hungry, saw him approaching and mistook him for yet another fruit! Rahu fled.

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With the sun gone and Rahu on the runj, Indra, lord of indralok, under whose supervision the whole universe functioned, mounted his huge elephant, Airavata, to deal with the awesome child. When Maruti spotted the looming bulk of Airavata, he mistook it for a still bigger fruit and gleefully lunged for it. Indra had to use his divine thunderbolt (vajra) to strike Maruti. The child crashed down to earth and his jaw (hanu in Sanskrit, hence the name Hanuman in North India; in South India, Anjaneya, after his mother) was disfigured. A furious Vayu stopped blowing and ceased all life sustaining functions. Plants wilted, clouds stayed motionless. Without air and sunlight, life on the universe was paralyzed.

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Indra and his entourage appealed to Brahma, the creator, to make peace with Vayu. The gods finally appeased Vayu by granting a handful of boons to Hanuman that made the child more powerful than ever. Indra himself promised that lightning and thunder would never harm Hanuman while the sun god decreed that no fire would singe him.

However, the ascetics, whose profound meditations had been broken by Maruti‘s escapades, feared the child would, in his innocense, cause more havoc wiht his powers. So they declared that Hanuman would remain ignoratn of his great powers until a great man in pursuit of a supreme goal sought his help. Thus it transpired that years later, Rama, the noble prince of Ayodhya, awakened Hanuman’s sleeping powers. Rama was banished by his stemother for fourteen years to the forest where hiswofe, Sita, was abducted by the demon king Ravana of Lanka. Hanuman becmae indispensable to Rama in his quest of a worthy goal, rescuing Sita and vanquishing evil.
Hanuman’s life symbolises true devotion and selfless service. At a purely philosophical level, the name ‘Hanuman’ means someone who has vanquished (hanan) ego or pride (maan). In the Hindu approach to spirituality, one can only progress spiritually and find a grue guru when one has surredered the individual ego to the supreme One.