Dancing Lord Ganesha Statue

Nritya Ganapati, as the name suggests, is a dancer or a happy dancer, and thus represents the relaxed and enjoyable form of Lord Ganesh. Ganesha is depicted dancing under the divine, wish-fulfilling Kalpa Vriksha tree with one foot placed on the ground and the other raised, as during a dance, he is shining in golden yellow color and has four hands. While he holds his own broken tusk in the principal right hand, an elephant goad, a battle axe, and a noose are there in his other hands. Rings are seen in his fingers and his trunk, curled in the end, is holding his favorite snack, Modak (dumpling). This dancer form also shows Lord Ganesha as a connoisseur of fine arts. Hence his worship is believed to bestow the devotees with an aptitude for learning fine arts, proficiency in them, and also success and fame in that field. Lord Ganesha is widely worshipped by artists, and especially by dancers. He dances on top of a flat pedestal decorated with petals of a lotus flower, a type of water lily. The lotus symbolizes the purity and divine energy of life because, although rooted in the mud of ponds and rivers, its flower rises up out of the water and opens, completely clean, each morning. Every aspect of Ganesha’s round, rhythmically swaying figure is full of such contrasts: he is both heavy and graceful, mischievous and serious, and he seems to embody deep wisdom as well as the joy of a young child. This form of Ganesha has been inspired by Pazhavangadi Ganesha temple in Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram.