LORD GANESHA

Lord Ganesha is the Hindu God of knowledge and the remover of obstacles or God of elimination of troubles. He is also called Ganapati (leader of people), Buddhividhata (god of knowledge), or Vighnahara (god to remove obstacles). In fact Lord Ganesha has at least 108 names. He is one the most important Gods in the Hindu religion so that all sacrifices and religious ceremonies, all serious compositions in writing, and all worldly affairs of importance are begun with an invocation to Lord Ganesha.

Ganesha is usually depicted as an elephant head figure with a large pot belly. He has four hands with one hand always extended to bless people. Like most other Hindu gods, he has a ‘vehicle’, in his case a mouse: this mouse is usually shown at the foot of the god, but sometimes Ganesh is astride the mouse and so he is also named Mushaka-vahan (mushak meaning mouse and vahan is vehicle - the one who is riding a mouse). This unique combination of his elephant-like head and a quick moving mouse vehicle represents tremendous wisdom, intelligence, and presence of mind.

I am commencing this blog-spot by offering my prayer to Lord Ganesha. Visualizing Lord Ganesha in my mind, herein I have used combinations of Go-padma (Go means holy cow & padma means feet – cows’ feet) to produce the sand-painting.This form of painting gets completed very quickly & particularly utile to women who are usually occupied during festive seasons.