In the Tamil Vaishnava tradition, Andal, one of the greatest devotees of Sri Vishnu, became the bride of the Lord at the end of her mortal life, and merged with his icon, becoming eternally one with the Supreme Lord.
Following her ascent to the heavenly Loka of Vishnu, temples in Tamil Nadu began worshipping Andal as a heavenly bride, and the statue of Andal as a youthful bride accompanied Sri Vishnu in all primary shrines.
In this large granite statue, the beautiful bride of Sri Ranganatha appears in an exquisite form, dressed in a queenly fashion with her characteristic graceful posture and the lotus with a parrot perched on it.
Carved magnificently, the hard granite embodies the physical and emotional delicateness of a devotee, whose supreme self-sacrifice at the feet of the divine has made her worthy of being worshiped alongside him.
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