The Splendour Of The Chariot- Borne Soorya Brass Statue

by Kapil Goel Director

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The Chariot- Borne Soorya Brass Statue

Lord Soorya is revered as the prime source of life and nourishment by the peoples of the subcontinent. His many names include Vivasvat (Sanskrit word for 'brilliant), Savitra ('nourisher'), and Lokachakshu ('eye of the realm'). Lore has it that He rides a chariot as brilliant as He is, drawn by no less than seven horses, across the skies each day in His bid to overpower the demons of darkness. He is one of the highest-order deities of Hinduism and a lesser-known deity in Buddhism. This sculpture of the highly venerated Deva depicts Him with His usual two hands, seated in padmasana in His chariot. In each of his hands does a lotus, an image of the sun itself constitutes the halo behind his towering crown. Seated before the ornately engraved compartment of the chariot, with the reins of all the seven horses in his hands, is Aruna, the charioteer of Soorya.

Born to Kashyapa (a Vedic rishi) and Aditi (who is the heavenly mother-figure), He is sung about in the Rigveda. Samja, the daughter of Vishvakarma, is His wife, and He is the father of Manu, Yama, and Yami. It is from fragments of His superb glamour that the signature weapons of the other devas (the trishool of Shiva, the discus of Vishnu, and the lance of Karttikeya) have been fashioned. Understandably, He is the chief of the lords of the respective planets in the solar system. Having been somewhat replaced by the Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva trinity in terms of importance, He is the chosen deity of worship during new-year festivities in Nepal and the South. This sculpture of the chariot-borne Soorya is replete with the splendor expounded poetically in the oldest of the Vedas.