Lord Shiva is the primordial masculine principle, Devi Uma of the feminine. Respectively, they are the personification of the energy principle and the matter principle, the confluence of which gives birth to life.
As such, Shiva-Uma are the father and mother of the entire cosmos. They are omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. The twin murti that you see on this page captures these unputdownable aspects of these deities.
The Pashupatinath-roopa of Lord Shiva is the taller of the two. He is chaturbhujadhari, one of which obviously wields a quadruped. In His anterior hands are a trishoola and a serpent that He has single-handedly overpowered.
The presence of the venomous snake in the various iconographies of Shiva is proof of His invincibility and power over every life-form. The beauteous Devi Uma is His equal in strength and stature.
She is the dvibhujadharini, with the left hand raised as if She holds a lotus between Her fingers. Handsome features of the face, framed by tall crowns and karnakundalas. From the ratio of the limbs to the stance of their forms, everything about Shiva and Uma seems to have come into being as a complement to each other.
Fashioned in larger-than-life proportions, the medium of bronze does justice to their cosmic glamour. The deities stand on discrete plinths, the quadrilateral base of which comes with a bronze loop at each corner to aid in moving these great sculptures about. A gold-coloured monotone characterises the composition.
Shiva
63.5 INCH HEIGHT X 30.5 INCH WIDTH X 19 INCH DEPTH
139 KG.
Parvati
54.9 INCH HEIGHT X 18.5 INCH WIDTH X 16 INCH DEPTH
108 KG.
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