ganesha

According to Hindu belief, Ganesha is the son of Siwa and Durga, two powerful deities. Though human in form, he possesses the head of an elephant and is regarded as the Lord of Knowledge. He sits in a leafy forest in this sculpture from Eka, who keeps alive the artisan heritage of her late husband, Putra Suteja. Beautiful and original, the sculpture stands on an albesia wood base.

Please note size and coloring may differ as the artist works with natural coconut shell.

Carved with sublime detail, this sculpture by the family of the late Indonesian artisan Putra Suteja will never cease telling the stories of Hindu mythology. An Anantaboga dragon circles this coconut sculpture, while Ganesha presides at the top center. Ganesha is one of the most popular deities in the Hindu pantheon. With the four arms he holds his own broken tusk in his lower-right hand and holds a delicacy, which he samples with his trunk, in his lower-left hand. His upper left hand holds an axe and his upper right arm holds a noose. The word Anantaboga is derived from the Sanskrit term ananta (endless) and boga (food, possession or wealth). As a result, Antaboga could be translated as "endless food" or "endless wealth". This sculpture comes with a detachable albesia wood base.

In something so simple as a coconut shell, it is possible to create an intricate carving of an Anantaboga dragon encircling an image of the Hindu deity Ganesha. By Eka, this beautiful open-work sculpture is carved by hand to display on a base of albesia wood.