Hiranya
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Origins
The Ashwamedha horse: in Vedic ritual, a stallion loosed for a year, every land it crossed unchallenged claimed by its king . Above him the Pegasus sprang from Medusa's blood, struck Mount Helicon to release the Hippocrene, the spring of inspiration, and was finally set among the stars, his flight made permanent. The Ashwamedha horse: in Vedic ritual, a stallion loosed for a year, every land it crossed unchallenged claimed by its king. Between them, lapis holds three minerals. Lazurite opens the third eye, calcite awakens the mind, pyrite turns thought into reality. The shape an inverted Trikona (Triangle) hold and directs this energy.
Sovereignty, made real.
Worn, it asks no permission to enter a room. It walks in already, quietly, unchallenged.
Making
Rearing horses sculpted in wax by hand and re-cut until stillness looks mid-stride. Each rose-cut Himalayan crystal is individually bezel-set, and the lapis is domed and set flush.
Celestial Geometry & Royal Lore
Inspired by the grandeur of ancient imperial courts, this piece bridges timeless Vedic ritual with celestial myth and divine symmetry. Every curve echoes sacred geometry, channeling courage, nobility, and timeless grace.
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STORY BEHIND
Hiranya
Winged guardians, sun and crystal moon. Golden-rutilated quartz tablet, lapis disc, Himalayan crystal doublet polki. Render, second deck slide 1. One version with lions and sun dial in oxidised silver, the rest in oxidised gold.
Before there was a before, the Rig Veda says, a golden womb floated on the waters: Hiranyagarbha, the seed of everything. The hymn does not say what guarded it. This piece answers with the śārdūla, the composite lion-guardian of Indian temple thresholds. Two winged ones face each other across a tablet of golden-rutilated quartz, where gold needles hang in clear crystal like a seed suspended in light. Above, a sun cradles a round crystal moon. Below, lapis, carried from Afghanistan’s Sar-i Sang mines to Ur, Egypt and the Indus cities, holds a green-ringed crystal at its centre, the bindu. Hiranya is for the woman about to begin. The śārdūla keep the threshold; the quartz keeps the seed; the lapis keeps the vision.
THE IMPRINT — a guarded beginning
The śārdūla keep the threshold, the tablet of golden rutilated quartz holds the seed in light, and the sun and crystal moon above it mark the turning of the day. At the centre, lapis sets a single bindu, the point from which everything starts. Together they make a beginning protected until it is ready: she can start something new without exposing it too soon.
Why it earns its price: two sculpted winged guardians, a quartz tablet where no two needle patterns match, a sun in relief with its crystal moon, and an enamel-ringed bindu on a lapis disc. That is four separate crafts in one object.