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ARCHAMURTI:
The
five foot-high granite image of the virgin Goddess is a sculptural piece of
supreme craftsmanship. The captivating visage of Kumari Parvathi to standing
posture resting on the shapely
developed body, enhanced by the sparkle of the nose, jewel, with rosary in right
hand affords a grand feast to the mort eyes. Her sublime slim frame beautified
with sandal paste make up sends thrills into the spines of the devout viewers, as
they look standing at close quarters. The floral decoration, lighted up by the numerous
brass lamps, hung around enhances her loveliness to a million fold, and beckon
trillion looks. No wonder her fascinating, sublime, smiling countenance invokes
instant veneration in the God-intoxicated at the first sight itself and hastens
them to making prostration at once, although priests make loud protests; but it
can be asserted that everyone without exception commit it mentally. The two
dazzling diamond nose rings donated by the Maharaja of Trivandrum glow like
twinkling stars through the maze of the flaming brass lamps. Such is the
majestic aura of the sanctity about the goddess, whose glorious beauty and
invincible might are being sung in prose and verse by hundreds of poets right
from the dawn of creative faculty.
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