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Nepal: Small Ganesh shrine at the side of a footpath in the Kathmandu Valley (1996)

Nepal: Small Ganesh shrine at the side of a footpath in the Kathmandu Valley (1996)

Ganesha, also spelled Ganesa or Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, and Pillaiyar, is one of the deities best-known and most widely worshipped in the Hindu pantheon.

His image is found throughout India and Nepal. Hindu sects worship him regardless of affiliations. Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to Jains, Buddhists, and beyond India.






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CPA Media Co. Ltd.

Photographer:

Rainer Krack

Credit:

Pictures From Asia

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