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Fine Finish Ganda Berunda Bronze Statue

SPECIFICATIONS Height7 inchesWeight1.4 KgsMaterialBronzeProduct IdPS02634 Bring home the Power & Radiance of the exquisitely crafted fine finish quality Ganda Berunda Bronze (Panchaloha) Statue by PujaSanskaram. Delivery time Upto 12 days for delivery locations inside India + No Delivery Charges. Upto 20 days for delivery locations outside India + Additional Delivery…

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Gandaberunda

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She spent no small amount of time in the deeper parts of the forest, where too many feared to tread.  There, she found refuge and security that no city, and no four walls could offer. No matter that she had once felt a measure of the Greenwrath, herself, since returning the Berunda to its creators, the mood of the Twelveswood had shifted.  There was peace to be had under the boughs, and a chorus of birds to answer her song.

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Gandaberunda

The Gandaberunda or Berunda (Sanskrit: गण्डभेरुण्ड gaṇḍabheruṇḍa), is a two-headed mythological bird outside of main Hindu mythology thought to possess magical strength. It is used as the official emblem by the Karnataka government because of its immense strength, capable of dealing with ultimate forces of destruction, and it is seen as an intricately sculptured motif in a Hindu temple.

Depiction

The bird is generally depicted as clutching elephants in its talons and beaks demonstrating its immense strength. In a coin (kasu) found in Madurai, it is shown holding a snake in its beak. All 2-dimensional depictions show a symmetrical image similar to the double-headed eagle other images show the long tail feathers resembling a peacock which is the national bird of India. In the Chennakeshava temple of Belur (1113), Karnataka, Gandaberunda (2-faced bird identified with Vishnu) depiction is a carved scene of "chain of destruction". Initially, a deer is prey to a large python, followed by being lifted by an elephant and a lion attacking the elephant, and the lion shown as devoured by Sharabha. The last scene depicted is of Gandaberunda destroying Sharabha. The Gandaberunda was a physical form displayed by Narasimha, Man-Lion incarnation of Vishnu.

After Narasimha had slain demon Hiranyakashipu, through the taste of blood, Narasimha did not let go of his dreadful form. Demigods were even more afraid of the supreme lord now, than before of the demon. Shiva, the best friend of Vishnu, thus shiva incarnated as Veerabhadra, Rudra and kala bhairava and narasimha slain all " forms of shiva and thus incarnated himself as Sharabha, a part-lion and part-bird beast which was the terror of the lion. Gandaberunda, having two heads, fearful rows of teeth, black in complexion and with wide blazing wings fought with Shiva-Sharabha for eighteen days and finally held it between his two beaks and killed Sharabha but also exploded and got killed in the process.

Usage

A roof sculpture depicting a Gandaberunda is found on the roof of the Rameshwara temple in the temple town of Keladi in Shimoga District, which was the capital of the Keladi Nayakas. The Gandaberunda was also used by the Wodeyar dynasty of Mysore as the royal emblem. The Karnataka Government adopted this symbol as the state symbol and can be found on bus terminals and tickets issued by Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation. Coins (gold pagoda or gadyana) from the rule of Achyuta Deva Raya are thought to be the first to use the Gandaberunda on currency. The crest of the Indian navy ship INS Mysore (D60) features a Gandaberunda.

In media

Ganda Berunda is a Kannada film directed by S.V. Rajendrasingh Babu and produced by Vajramuni. The film was released in the year 1984. The music was composed by Sathyam. Bollywood actor Amrish Puri played the antagonist in the film.

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Gandaberunda - Vishnu’s fiercest form Pattachitra The rare Ganda-Berunda, Vishnu's fiercest form is rather common in Odishan Art. (via Twitter: Shri Jagannatha)

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"Om Namo Bhavathey Ashta Mukha Ganda berunda Mahogrolko Jwala Jwaala sudarshana vaaraha sree lakshmi nrusimhaya namaha"

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Hatching Redemption --------------------------------- She sang, as she passed into the deep wood, an old hymn to Nophica which seldom rose from her lips after she first fled the Shroud’s embrace some few summers before the Calamity.  Her steps were slow and gently measured, not wishing to disturb the true masters of this place, though this once Hearer felt as though they were pleased by the harmony of her voice.  Nothing came across her path to impede her, and by moonlight did owls answer back in chorus. Ciel came to a place which felt like the embrace of sweet sleep without dreaming where, five summers after Dalamud’s fall, she finally interred the remains of a creature sacred to the Elementals, which had been slain by poachers and later stolen by the Ixal to be used as ritual materials.  Beads and weapons made of bone, headdresses made of long, multi-colored plumes, were all that was left of the Berunda. They'd had an entire seven summers to waste the poor beast before she could reclaim it for its rightful masters, and scores of arrows rained upon Natalan that night and their stores of crystals were confiscated as well. The remains were buried in a cleft of white stone and filled in with soft, warm earth, and then she left the Berunda to its sleep and the whims of the Elementals.  She had no doubt that if they wanted it to live, they would find some way to make it happen.  Mayhap it would be given a new form, something more beastkin than cloudkin, but she was left to her imaginings and never once set foot back in this part of the wood until now. The soil had long since been disturbed, by moons at the most recent.  Only tufts of white down littered the burial space, and fragments of... well, what might have been egg shell, but glittering with a fine crystalline crust on the inside.  Bird-like tracks started small and trailed away, but grew the more she followed, but she stopped before she could follow it back into the densest tree cover. It is well. The Elementals were satisfied, and this very feeling translated into the answer she was hoping to find here.  The Berunda was home and reborn.  It was a welcome sliver of hope when she most needed it.

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Ganda Berunda Bronze Deepa

Ganda Berunda Bronze Deepa

SPECIFICATIONS Height11 inchesWidth4 InchesLength6 InchesWeight1.8 KgsMaterialBronzeProduct IdPS02367 Bring home the Power & Radiance of the exquisitely crafted Ganda Berunda bronze Deepa by PujaSanskaram. Delivery time Upto 7 days for delivery locations inside India + No Delivery Charges. Upto 20 days for delivery locations outside India + Additional Delivery Charges. Packing Before…