MYSORE: A city-based sculptor, Kiran Subbaiah, has sculpted his way to glory.
Kiran's latest creation, a 135-headed Adishesha (serpent God), is likely to enter into the Guinness Book of World Records.
Presently, the Adishesha deity at Pashupathinath temple, Nepal, holds the Guinness record with 108 hoods.
According to Subbaiah, it took him about 3 years of devoted work to complete the sculpture. The statue is 5.15 ft fall, 3 ft wide and 3.8ft in breadth. The sculpture has Sri Yantra, Om Yantra and Gayatri manthra engraved on its backside.
Apart from the 135-headed Adishesha, 45 individual snakes, in different postures, have been carved on the pedestal and sides of the main statue.
Interestingly, numerology has it that serpents are always depicted or carved with only odd numbers of heads. With 135 and 45 being odd, the sum total of the individual numbers of both the numbers also comes to nine.
The idol is likely to attract lot of attention as Kiran Subbaiah is planning to display and auction it during this year's dasara season.
Experts have valued the sculpture at Rs 1 crore.
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