Elements of Hindu Iconography v1.c9.68

v1.c9.68

Two illustrations are given here to show the form of Prasanna-Gaṇapati as executed in sculpture. Of these fig. 1, Pl. XV represents a bronze statuette belonging to the Śiva temple at Paṭṭīśvaram in the Tanjore district. It is a *tribhaṅga* image with three bends in the body, and is standing upon a *pdamāsana*. Surrounding this image there is the *prabhavali*: and it carries in its four hands the *aṅkuśa*, *pāśa*, *mōdaka* and *danta*. Its head is adorned with the *karaṇḍa-makuṭa*. It is probably not later than the twelfth or the thirteenth century A. D. Fig. 2 on the same plate is an ivory image of Prasanna-Gaṇapati made in the School of Arts at Trivandram. It is a perfectly erect figure being *samabhaṅga*, and in its hands we see the same things as in the hands of the bronze statuette of Paṭṭīśvaram.