South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c9.s17.17

c9.s17.17

² The *Silparatna* says that he is seated on a lotus-pedestal under a *kalpa-tree*; that he has ten arms holding the weapons mentioned in the Mudgala-Purāṇa and that he is surrounded by gods and *ganas*. No. 84 of the Tanjore inscriptions (S.I.I., Vol. II, p. 407) refers to a comfortably seated Ganapati and mentions a tree as one of his accompaniments. The reference may be to Mahā-Ganapati; but the inscription states that he had only four divine arms.