Dancing Ganesh Khajaraho School,11th Century AD
While an orchestra plays the flute, two large drums, Lord Ganesh sways to the music. Surprisingly a child in the nude, seen from the back, looks in awe at the huge figure of Lord Ganesh. The inclusion of the child is highly unusual. For he cannot symbolise the donor, as a doner would be depicted as an adult. Does the child then symbolise the infantile Mankind looking at the vast universe? Or does the child stand for the innocent and pure soul looking at divinity? The sculptor has left all of us guessing at the meaning of the child in this masterpiece.
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