Dimensions: 34.7 inch X 21.5 inch X 12.5 inchBrass Sculptures: Buy Ganesha, Buddha & Nataraja Sculptures ' ExoticIndiaBrass StatueThis most artistically crafted : cast, plated and anodized,brass-statue, in every likeliness an image for a royal or a rich mansdomestic shrine, exceptionally ornate as are Tibetan and Nepaleseimages, an example of perfect craftsmanship and endowed with rarebeauty, represents Lord Ganesh in his Ekadanta manifestation. He hasbeen represented as seated on a two-tiered chowki, the rising wallengraved with tiny forms of Ganesh himself, in utkut akasana, asitting posture with both legs turned angularly, the feet facing eachother in the bodys centre. Not only that the remnant of the brokentusk has been emphatically focused as against the other on the leftbut with as greater emphasis has been represented the detached part ofp>the tusk held in one of the hands of the elephant god.Obviously, the emphasis is aimed at defining the image as representingthe elephant gods Ekadanta manifestation. In early texts, like theMudgala Purana, Ekadanta Ganapati has been alluded to as one of hisinitial eight forms with which the basic classicism of Ganapatiimagery comes into being. These eight primary manifestations of LordGanesh were conceived as prevailing over eight weaknesses inherent tohuman nature. Subsequently, the number of such form was expanded intothirty-two but the significance of his Ekadanta form was neverdiluted. Under this classicism Ekadanta Ganapati is believed to defeatmoda arrogance or ego that leads the mind to not accept what onehas before him and thus creates disharmony with the world he isdestined to live in. Ekadanta Ganapati vanquishes this arrogance,which makes life harmonious with ones world.Tradition reveres Ganapati as the supreme patron of knowledge andwisdom; however as
