MUSICIAN GANESHA: A COLLECTION OF SEVEN IMAGES - SOUTH INDIAN TEMPLE WOOD CARVING

FEATURES

  • Material: South Indian Temple Wood Carving
  • Dimensions: 11.5 inch x 5.7 inch x 5.5 inch - Each
  • Weight: 14 kg

SPECIFICATION

Model No.ZAS14
Product Size11.5 Inch Height
Item Dimension13.97 x 29.21 x 14.48 Cm
Package Dimension14.48 x 13.97 x 29.21 Cm
Package Weight17.24 ~ 20.68 Kg
Product GroupHome
AvailabilityAvailable (Usually ships in 4-8 business days)

DESCRIPTION

Dimensions: 11.5 inch x 5.7 inch x 5.5 inch - Each

Hindu Statues & Sculptures: Shiva Linga, Nataraja & Ganesha Statue
South Indian Temple Wood Carving
These seven statues, each an excellent piece of art, carved out of fine Bangai wood, a timber of high grade used for South Indian temple wood carvings now for generations, represent a rapt Ganesha playing on different musical instruments. From left to right, all seven images represent him as playing on ‘mradanga’ – long drum, ‘shahanai’ – large pipe, male-female drum set, flute, ‘vina’ – stringed instrument, a lyre, guitar, and ‘mataka’ – earthen pot, Indians used as a musical instrument since ages. When struck with palm and fingers with varying beats the air that the ‘mataka’ contained within vibrated and produced sound which, when regulated with the other hand by holding it on its mouth and releasing it gradually, produced desired musical effect. Though each an isolated piece complete in itself, for suggesting the timelessness and universality of Lord Ganesha the wood-carver has represented him as playing on one hand on a ‘mataka’, the most traditional instrument of Indian masses used even as part of Indian classical music, and on the other, on a guitar, a modern and global instrument – one, the primitive, and other, the ultimate.This set of seven images is unique in imparting a great message. Each image of the set represents Lord Ganesha as playing on a different instrument but Lord Ganesha is one; so is his act of playing, whether on this instrument or that; and, so is his act’s outcome, the music produced with one instrument or the other. Lord Ganesha has thousands of manifest forms, and over a thousand names but strangely, in all sev