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  • The inner one houses the murti and has a Mushika Ganesha's mouse vahana with modaka in his forepaws in front of it.

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  • The earliest Ganesha images are without a vahana mount.

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  • Compare also the "Dadhi-vahana-jataka," No. 186, which is connected with our No. 27.

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  • 71 Jain depictions of Ganesha show his vahana variously as a mouse, elephant, tortoise, ram, or peacock.

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  • An animal or entity closely associated with a Hindu deity, as a vehicle or emblem.

    December 16, 2007