On the back of the rat, His vahana, dances the son of Shiva. The six arms of the shashabhujadhari motion about the chubby child’s torso. Usually held intact by the body of a snake coiled around it, in the murti that you see on this page it is a string of lotus petals. A lifelike elephant face completes the composition.
This wood-carved Ganesha murti borrows heavily from the temple architecture of ancient South India. There is a flat-topped plinth engraved with lotus petals. An archway with Kirtimukham at its zenith. At the base of one pillar is a bowlful of laddoos, at the base of the other is a devotee bearing a basketful of them on His head.
Given the natural, organic medium, the work is a remarkably textured monotone. The natural texture of the wood reveals itself in the abstract gradient observable especially in the body of the vahana and the lotus petals along the archway.
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