Title: Ganesh : studies of an Asian god /
Authors: Brown, Robert L., 1944 October 6-
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Gaṇeśa; Asia Religion
Contents: Gaṇeśa : a protohistory of the idea and the icon / A.K. Barain -- Gaṇeśa : myth and reality / M.K. Dhavalikar -- Gaṇeśa's rise to prominence in Sanskrit literature / Ludo Rocher -- Gaạneśa as metaphor : the Mudgala Purāṇa / Phyllis Granoff -- Images of Gaṇeśa in Jainism / Maruti Nandan Tiwari and Kamal Giri -- The wives of Gaṇeśa / Lawrence Cohen -- "Vātāpi Gaṇapatim" : sculptural, poetic, and musical texts in a hymn to Gaṇesá / Amy Catlin -- Gaṇeśa in Southeast Asian art : Indian connections and indigenous developments / Robert L. Brown -- The Tantric Gaṇeśa : texts preserved in the Tibetan canon / Christopher Wilkinson -- Gaṇeśa in China : methods of transforming the demonic / Lewis R. Lancaster -- Literary aspects of Japan's dual-Gaṇeśa cult / James H. Sanford.