Elements of Hindu Iconography v1.c9.50

v1.c9.50

*Bhuvanēśa-Gaṇapati* should have eight hands. The *śaṅkha*, a bow made of sugar-cane, arrows of flowers, the broken tusk, the *pāśa*, the *aṅkuśa*, and shoots of paddy grass are to be held in them; the colour of the body is to be white. It is worthy of note that the sugar-cane-bow and the flowery arrows are the attributes of Kāmadēva, the Hindu god of love.