Sri Ganesh in Om

Ganesha is depicted standing atop a lotus flower within the sacred syllable Om, understood as a metaphor for the origin of all things. Four-armed, he holds a water vessel (kalasa) and the axe and rosary of sacred beads (rudraksh) associated with his divine father, Shiva. He also has a bowl of his favorite sweets, laddoos, from which he eats using his trunk. His vehicle (vahana), the rat, appears at his feet. The god is resplendent, dressed in a green and yellow waistcloth and wearing a gold crown inset with pearls. As is often seen in depictions of Ganesha in worship, his face is painted with a red pigment. All these elements are set within a radiant mandorla. The lithograph is captioned “Printed as Germany,” likely to assert that the quality of the image is akin to those produced in Germany.