chennai australia is likely to return on monday two ancient idols including a cholaera pratyangira idol smuggled from tamil naduthe antiquities would be handed over in canberra to culture minister mahesh sharma who is touring australia as part of the festival of india investigations had found at the pratyangira lion lady that the pratyangira lion lady statue went to australia from disgraced art dealer subhash kapoors art of the past gallery in new york in a toi article published on march 30 singaporebased blogger vijay kumar who played a key role in locating the statues said that pratyangira bought by the national gallery of australia for 247000 from kapoor was stolen from the vriddhagireesvarar temple in vriddhachalamthe pieces would be returned on september 19 while the pratyangira idol belongs to tamil nadu the second statue is a first century old marble buddha panel from andhra pradesh a top asi official said