Varadaraja with Consorts, Attendents and Incarnations.

Locality unknown. Height of Varadaraja 13.5 cm; of Devis 11 cm. Total height of stand and prabha 40 cm. About 17th Century AD.

The three principal images are of copper with the others being of brass.

The three principal images with Jaya and Vijaya the door keepers of Vaikuntha (Vishnu's Heaven) on either side of them, rest in sockets on an elaborate stand supported by Garuda with lions on either side of him. Above them is the prabha with a makara on each side at the base of the arched upper portion, a five headed cobra forming a canopy over Varadaraja; above this cobra are the ten principal incarnations of Vishnu, the whole prabha being surmounted by the head of a yali.

The three principal images are rather crude, and the only special interest attaching to the set lies in their elaborate and somewhat better executed setting. The door-keepers front inner hands rest on clubs, their outer ones being in the abhaya pose. Their back hands hold the discus and conch, the usual order being reversed in the case of Vijaya for the sake of symmetry.