Meet Arun Yogiraj, the sculptor who built the statue of Adi Shankaracharya

The entire country is in awe of the magnificent statue of Adi Shankaracharya that was unveiled by PM Modi during his visit to the holy shrine of Kedarnath on Friday. Namaskaram 🙏🏽 https://t.co/KJFPVH2bhX — Nirmala Sitharaman November 5, 2021 After being chosen to sculpt the statue of Adi Shankaracharya, Yogiraj set about studying statues across the expanse of south India to get a better understanding of the crucial facets and measurements that would help him to make informed judgement about an imposing statue of a key spiritual icon of the nation. We worked for 14-15 hours everyday for 9 months to execute this sculpture: Arun Yogiraj, sculptor from Karnataka’s Mysuru pic.twitter.com/elIHu0SkQa — ANI November 5, 2021 The idol was carved out of a single rock called ‘Krishna shile’ or the black chlorite schist, which has the strength to withstand all vagaries of the weather. Meet Arun Yogiraj, artist who sculpted #AdiShankaracharya ‘s 12 feet statue set up in Kedarnath He concentrated on a 360 degrees view of the statue & gave importance to structure, posture, gesture, realistic part, traditional aspects, the divinity in the face with other things. Apart from building the magnificent idol of Adi Shankaracharya installed at Kedarnath, Arun’s other work include the famous 14.5-feet white marble stone sculpture of the Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar in Mysuru.