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Ganesha

600s

Southern Cambodia or Vietnam

Medium
sandstone
Measurements
Overall: 122 x 58.7 x 23.8 cm (48 1/16 x 23 1/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1987.147
Public Domain
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Location
243 Indian and Southeast Asian
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Ganesha wears a short sampot held by a narrow belt.

Description

Among the first Hindu deities to be venerated in the form of a large-scale stone sculpture in Southeast Asia, Ganesha presides over obstacles, either creating or removing them. At the beginning of any endeavor, to assure its success, worshipers affectionately offer him prayers and food, such as the sweet cakes and radish he enjoys in this sculpture.
A gray sandstone sculpture depicts Ganesha, a god with a human body and elephant head, ears flaring on either side. Ganesha wears a short sampot, a cloth wrapped around the waist and falling just over the knees, the lower legs broken off below. Parts of both arms are missing. Ganesha's right hand clutches a radish against the side of his belly. His trunk hangs down and bends toward his left hand, partially broken away.

Ganesha

600s

Southern Cambodia or Vietnam

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