Ganesha (Black Soapstone)

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Title

Subject

Hindu

Description

Ganesha is the most recognizable god of the Hindu pantheon. He is known to be the Lord of Obstacles (good fortune) that helps devotees overcome them, and he is worshipped as the Lord of Beginnings. The first depiction of Ganesha as a deity appeased during the Gupta period in 4th to the 5th century CE, and he is widely worshipped in Jainism and Buddhism. Ganesha is illustrated with an elephant head, a big belly, four arms, and holding his trunk in his lower-right hand. Additionally, he is known to be depicted as standing, dancing, playing with his family as a boy, and many others.

Source

Check out the High Library and Sacred Texts for more information

Sources: Getty, Alice Gaņeśa: A Monograph on the Elephant-Faced God. Oxford: Clarendon Press, [1936]. ASIN: B00086EMBO, 1971. ASIN: B0006C8E5K Munshiram &Brown, Robert L. Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God. Albany: State University of New York, 1991. ISBN 0791406571

Contributor

Elizabethtown College (Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA)

Dr. William V. Puffenberger

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