Depiction of the Mahāganapati form of Ganesha, with a shakti. Upper area shows a description of the form as a meditation verse written in Kannada script. Reproduction from the Sritattvanidhi ("The Illustrious Treasure of Realities"), an iconographic treatise compiled in the 19th century in Karnataka, India, by order of the then Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (b. 1794 - d. 1868).