Eco-friendly Carved Standing Navapasanam Statue

This is handcrafted DIVINE Navapasanam Statue. The idol of the Muruga in Palani was created and consecrated by sage Bogar, one of Hinduism's eighteen great siddhas out of an amalgam of nine poisons or navapashanam. The legend also holds that the sculptor had to work very rapidly to complete its feature and made it perfect. Later, some people who had access to the deity used hideous chemicals and robbed off the idol's contents greatly damaging the idol and conspirated theories that the sage did not sculpt the outer features well as he did to the face. A shrine to Bhogar exists in the southwestern corridor of the temple, which, by legend, is said to be connected by a tunnel to a cave in the heart of the hill, where Bogar continues to meditate and maintain his vigil, with eight idols of Muruga. The deity, after centuries of worship, fell into neglect and was suffered to be engulfed by the forest. One night, Perumal a king of the Chera Dynastys, who controlled the area between the second and fifth centuries A.D., wandered from his hunting party and was forced to take refuge at the foot of the hill. It so befell, that the Subrahmanyan, appeared to him in a dream, and ordered him to restore the idol to its former state. The king commenced a search for the idol, and finding it, constructed the temple that now houses it, and re-instituted its worship. This is commemorated by a small stela at the foot of the staircase that winds up the hill. About Navapasanam Navapashanam or Navapaadanam is Nine type of poisonous substance that was used to prepare a Master Elixir Alchemy Formula that acts as a panacea for all diseases. Bogar , one among the 18 siddhars is known as father of Navapaadaanam who uses the deadly poisonous substances in to an Elixir formula in building Murugan Statue at Palani. Abisekam Milk done on Palani Murugan Statue (and Panchamirtham/honey) said to get the quality to cure all diseases.