How exactly did Ganesha arrive in Indonesia & Cambodia? Quite abruptly

#thinkingmedieval
Ganesha is, in all likelihood, India’s single most popular god. He might not command the vast pilgrimage centres of Shiva and Vishnu, but his annual festivities still mobilise tens of millions of people across the subcontinent. But Ganesha’s popularity is new in scale, not in concept. Anirudh Kanisetti explains how Ganesha's story extends for nearly 2,000 years—and encapsulates surprising historical and religious developments across Asia.

Sources:
Narain, AK. "Ganeśa: A Protohistory of the Myth and the Icon". In Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God, edited by Robert L. Brown, 19–48. State University of New York Press, 1991.
Brown, Robert L. "Ganeśa in Southeast Asian Art: Indian Connections and Indigenous Developments. In Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God, edited by Robert L. Brown, 171–234. State University of New York Press, 1991.




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