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Ganesh : studies of an Asian god / Robert L. Brown, editor. - Albany : State University of New York Press, �1991. - 1 online resource (xi, 358 pages) : illustrations. - SUNY series in tantric studies . - SUNY series in tantric studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ga�ne�sa : a protohistory of the idea and the icon / A.K. Barain -- Ga�ne�sa : myth and reality / M.K. Dhavalikar -- Ga�ne�sa's rise to prominence in Sanskrit literature / Ludo Rocher -- Ga�ane�sa as metaphor : the Mudgala Pur�a�na / Phyllis Granoff -- Images of Ga�ne�sa in Jainism / Maruti Nandan Tiwari and Kamal Giri -- The wives of Ga�ne�sa / Lawrence Cohen -- "V�at�api Ga�napatim" : sculptural, poetic, and musical texts in a hymn to Ga�nes�a / Amy Catlin -- Ga�ne�sa in Southeast Asian art : Indian connections and indigenous developments / Robert L. Brown -- The Tantric Ga�ne�sa : texts preserved in the Tibetan canon / Christopher Wilkinson -- Ga�ne�sa in China : methods of transforming the demonic / Lewis R. Lancaster -- Literary aspects of Japan's dual-Ga�ne�sa cult / James H. Sanford.


English.

ISBN: 0585054207 9780585054209

LCCN:

Subjects--Personal Names:
Ga�ne�sa (Hindu deity)
Ga�ne�sa (Hindu deity)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
RELIGION--Hinduism--Theology.
Religion.
Indische godsdiensten.
Ganesja.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Hinduism.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Asia--Religion.
Asia.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BL1225.G34 / G37 1991eb

Dewey Class. No.: 294.5/2113