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13th Century Khmer Post Bayon Bronze Seated Ganesha browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives: Pre 1492: item # 860307 Please refer to our stock # 1099 when inquiring.
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Details: A charming Khmer example of the popular Hindu deity Ganesha from the 13th century. He is seated holding his usual attributes, his broken tusk in his left hand and a large sweet in his right hand. Ganesha is wearing ornate jewelry and crown as well as a traditional Khmer sampot can kpin with an attractive folded edge on the front and a thin panel falling onto the base at the back. In 1243 the Khmer king Jayavarman VIII came to power. A fierce Shivaite who violently opposed the state sponsored Buddhism practiced in the previous Bayon period under the pious Buddhist king Jayavarman VII. He changed the state religion back to Hinduism and violently tried to undo much of what Jayavarman VII had seen as sacred, this is reflected in the art of the mid 13th century, essentially a revival of the Hinduized forms of the Angkor Wat style of the early 12th century. Many images of Hindu deities were produced and many older Buddhist images were either vandalized or recarved into Hindu ones. This image of Ganesha is of this period. This final Hindu phase didn’t last that much longer and by the 14th century Hinayana Buddhism dominated the region as it still does to this day. The son of Shiva and Parvati, Ganesha is the Hindu god of knowledge and the remover of obstacles. The first known records of this Vedic deity in Southeast Asia go back to the 7th century where he subsequently became an enormously popular deity particularly with the Indic Khmer. In Southeast Asia today he is still worshipped widely, usually before the start of a new venture or onset of a long journey. Age: Second half of the 13th Century. Height: On base14cm.
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