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A large gilded wooden vahana, a golden bull or nandi, stands on a blue-edged wooden platform inside a brick-walled workshop. Its body is covered in ornate raised carvings and decorated with a red and green embroidered saddle cloth with scrolling motifs. Its legs have ringed black-and-gold hooves, and its long tail curls up at the rear. Blue support poles brace the statue beneath a red canopy frame, and a stone pillar stands at the left edge. No people are visible. The image is a photograph from a Nithyanandapedia archive page about making sacred arts for the temple.

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