This highly accessible and easily portable image is of our favourite pot bellied elephant headed god, Ganesha. Despite the small size of the image, in a highly skilled manner, the ‘sthapati,’ has rendered a minutely detailed and fine bronze sculpture that has been created in the ‘madhuchista vidhana’ or lost wax technique of casting. Ganesha gracefully sits on a raised double lotus pedestal with his four hands holding important attributes – including the elephant goad and the noose, which our lord of auspicious beginnings uses to guide his devotees on the path of dharma. Befitting the benevolence and grace of a might god, the artistic creativity that comes from Swamimalai has also added a large ‘prabhamandala’ behind Ganesha’s figure, acting as a divine halo. Moreover, there is an ornamental ‘kirtimukha’ in the face of a demon on top. The sculpture therefore is religiously precise, aesthetically divine, and a wonderful image to be acquired and placed in our households.
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