Manikkavachakar

Settipulam, Tirutturaippundi Taluk, Tanjore District. Height 59 cm.About 12th Century AD. 

The details are shown with peculiar delicacy. The usual broad sacred thread is accompanied by another single and more undulating strand-arm without rosary. The band supporting the cloth is accompanied by a thread tied in front of the left leg. Broad circular kesa-bandha at a back of head, flattened behind. Two necklaces but no waist-band, the lower necklace only being of rudraksha beads and hanging low between the breasts.