This wood statue, carved out of a piece of fine timber revealing minute details of figure and entire ambience that Prabhavali defines, and painted as elegantly and beautifully using lighter tints of various colours, mainly golden yellow, green, red and blue, represents the elephant god Lord Ganesha seated on a large lotus. The statue combines at least three of the thirty-two forms of his image as identified in early classical iconographic traditions enshrining different Ganesha related texts to include in particular the eighth century Mudgala Purana, the most authentic work on Ganesha. Besides illustrating various Ganesha-related myths and iconographic details of each form, the Mudgala Purana also explores the dimensional breadth of each of these forms, its meaning and the role it plays in human life, especially the aspect of life that it influences.