Ganesh

Robert L. Brown is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Adjunct Curator of the Pacific Asia Museum.

Foreword
A. K. Narain

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction
Robert L. Brown

1.  Ganesa: A Protohistory of the Idea and the Icon
A. K. Narain

2.  Ganesa: Myth and Reality
M. K. Dhavalikar

3.  Ganesa's Rise to Prominence in Sanskrit Literature
Ludo Rocher

4.  Ganesa as Metaphor: The Mudgala Purana
Phyllis Granoff

5.  Images of Ganesa in Jainism
Maruti Nandan Tiwari and Kamal Giri

6.  The Wives of Ganesa
Lawrence Cohen

7.  "Vatapi Ganapatim": Sculptural, Poetic, and Musical Texts in a Hymn to Ganesa
Amy Catlin

8.  Ganesa in Southeast Asian Art: Indian Connections and Indigenous Developments
Robert L. Brown

9.  The Tantric Ganesa: Texts Preserved in the Tibetan Canon
Christopher Wilkinson

10. Ganesa in China: Methods of Transforming the Demonic
Lewis R. Lancaster

11. Literary Aspects of Japan's Dual-Ganesa Cult
James H. Sanford

List of Contributors

Index