Images of Ganesha appear in the Jaina temples of Rajasthan and Gujarat. The earliest known Jaina Ganesha statue at Mathura with Jaina YakshiAmbika(the Jaina name for Gauri). Excepting two medieval figures carved at Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves, Orissa and an early figure at Mathura, his representations are not found in any Digambara sites. The popularity is however not met with in Digambara texts. The text provides procedures for the installation of Ganapati images. This practice is still very common in the Swetambara community. It is further mentioned that He is worshipped at the beginning of every auspicious ceremony and new project. AD 1412), Ganapati is propitiated even by the gods to get desirable things. Īccording to the Swetambara Jaina work, Ācāradinakara of Vardhamānasūri (c. It refers to several appellations of Ganesha such as Heramba, Ganavigneṣa and Vinayaka and visualizes him as elephant headed, pot-bellied, bearing an axe and riding a mouse. The earliest literary reference to Ganesha in Jainism is in Abhidhānacitāmani of Hemachandra (c.a. The Jaina canonical literature does not mention Ganesha. Jaina connections with the trading community support the idea that Jainism took up the worship of Ganesha as a result of commercial connections. Ganesha is worshipped by only some Jainas, for whom he appears to have taken over certain functions of Kubera.
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