Ganapathi
Detail Photos
Image of Ganapathi sitting on a throne. He wears a yellow dhoti and a blue-ish upper garment or uttareeya. He wears a crown on his forehead, on his head. He has an elephant face.
Narrative
- Textual Source
- Non-narrative
- Mythological Tale
- Ganapathi is considered the son of shiva and Parvathy. He is worshipped as the remover of obstacles and invoked whenever one undertakes a new task. In one story, he acts as the scribe to sage Vyasa who dictated the Mahabharata to Ganapti. While writing it down feverently, he ran out of ink in his quill and broke off his trunk, dipped it in ink and continued writing the epic. He did this so that the flow of narration is not broken. In some local tales Ganapathi was endlessly refrained from marrying by asking him to write “your wedding is tomorrow”. He was made to read that and since ‘tommorrow” never comes, his marriage never happens. Locally, any function that gets endlessly postponed gets referred to as “Ganapathi kalyanam pole”(like Ganapathi’s marriage). In some tales however, he has two wives Siddhi and Buddhi.
- Episode
- Non narrative
Iconography
- Primary Deity/Figure
- Ganapathi
- Iconographic Form
- Ganapathi
- Iconographic Attributes
- Ganapathi, face of an elephant, broken tusk, four-armed, holding a goad in his upper right arm, broken tusk in his lower right arm, rope in his upper left arm, a bowl of sweets in his lower left arm, and a pot in his trunk, wearing a yellow dhoti, a bluish uttariya, ornate throne. He is three-eyed.
- Visual & Formal Features
- Background pattern, Facial expression detail, Hand gesture (mudra), Ornamentation
- Rasa
- Shanta
Spatial & Architectural
- Position in Pradakshina Sequence
- 14
- Adjacent Panels
- Varaham and Venugopala
Condition & Documentation
- Condition
- Fair
- Deterioration Type
- Pigment loss
- Restoration Status
- Unrestored
- Documentation Type
- DSLR full panel
- Permission Basis
- Temple authorities
- Date of Documentation
- 08/08/2024
- Artist
- Neelakantan Ilayath
- Identifier
- ASG_P014
- Rights / Notes
- These images may not be reproduced, redistributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior permission.
