Krishna appears in endless forms to delight his devotees.

Vaikhanasa Agama says “The forms of Krishna are so innumerable that they cannot be all described. Therefore, the worshipper might sculpt Krishna’s image in any form in which he chooses to conceive him”. Quoted from T A G Rao’s Elements of Hindu iconography.

Krishna is one of the very few Hindu deities shown at various stages of life, as an infant (Vatapatrasai), toddler (Crawling Krishna), boy (Nritya Krishna), youth (Kaliya Mardaka) and an adult (Krishna with consorts). Most of Hindu deities are shown only as youthful adults.

Here Krisha is shown as a child/youth holding two butter balls in his hands. Perhaps wondering which one to taste first. Incidentally, butter ball is one of the two identifying attributes of Krishna and the other one being the flute.

He is naked but for his ornaments and the billowing tassel.

This website has two other Vigrahas of Krishna with two butter balls, shown below for your enjoyment.

This Vigraha, the subject of this blog, is about 9 cm tall and it is from North Karnataka. The Vigraha may be dated to the nineteenth century.