24″ Large Twenty Six Wicks Lakshmi Lamp (Hoysala Art) | Handmade |

Lighting a lamp – or a ‘diya,’ historically – has been an innate part of our religious and spiritual existence. When used in the service of piety and devotion, these lamps transform from being a mere object of functional use to an auspicious element that brings us closer to the righteous path of dharma. As the ‘Deepa Joyti Strotam’ recites,

‘Deepajyoti Parabrahma Deepajyoti Janardhana//Deepo Me Haratu Paapam Sandhya Deepa Namastute.’

The mantra chants that light itself manifests as the supreme Brahman, protecting the world, and washing away the sins of adharma. This divinity extinguishes the negative tendencies of evil around us, and it is that spirit which this beautiful lamp exhibits. Mastering itself as a functional instrument and a work of art in its own right, the lamp mirrors the legacy of the Hoysala artistic tradition, and projects twenty-six wicks to be lit at several places along its body.