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Namaste and thank you Lambodara Das. I earlier tried to post a

message that I had uploaded 2 photos I had of this kind of

representation of Ganesha. I did not realize the pictures the group

already had were in the Files section, and I put these in the Photos

section.

 

BTW, I'm numbering my messages so if you see the same Subject with a

different number, it's the same post. This problem has really

gotten bad.

 

Stark

 

, Lambodara Das <lambodara_das> wrote:

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> Namaste All,

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> I am hoping that you my fellow Ganesha bhakthas are well. The

recent question posted by leopards_skin regarding " Skinny Ganesha

made me refer to the book Ganesha Studies of an Asian God edt. Robert

L Brown. in chapter 8 Ganesha in South Asian Art: Indian Connections

and Indigenous Developments. Here Brown discusses the cultural and

art aesthetic in Indonesian countries such as Cambodia,Thailand and

Vietnam where Sir Ganesha appears in a thinner more naturalistic form

with a head and ear shape as well style and type of decoration that

is different from the large full bodied Ganesha of India.

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> I have also seen this skinny Ganesha in some of the Japanese art.

It would seem that as Ganesha's worship spread to other countries the

depiction of Him was influenced by local custom, that is what I

gleaned from the book and its photos and illustrations. This may be

one answer to the question of Skinny Ganesha.

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Jai Sri Ganesha

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Lambodara Das

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