Image title: Varahanatha (Tiruvattariu)

Fig.79: Varahanatha (Tiruvattariu, Kanniyakumari dist., Tamilnadu). Nearly 2300 sculptures of different kinds are found on the outer prakara pillars of this temple and one doesn’t resemble the other. Among these, more than twenty sculptures of Varahanatha are found. In this sculpture, Varahanatha is depicted as standing in a Vrkshasana pose on his right leg and his left leg is folded upward to his left thigh. His hands are raised above his head in anjali mudra. He is wearing a langoti and long hair in his head. Behind him a boar is placed and above him an Ashtatala Padma is depicted.

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The Siddha/Natha tradition symbolize the most comprehensive understanding and application of the theoretical and methodological tenets of Tantric philosophy. There are many Siddha-centres all over the Tamilnadu. The temples in Tamil-Nadu contain the sculptures depicting the Tantric rites and the images of the venerated Siddhas in it.