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36 INDIA: GANESA IN HINDU SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS
consorts; but at an early epoch, as will be seen below, he was imaged with a devi
seated beside him sometimes called Laksmi.1 In this form, he was worshipped by
those followers of the Vdmdcdra2 doctrine who admitted 'wine and women' in their
ceremonies.3 The Ganapatya sect conceived five esoteric forms of Ganesa, called
Sakti-Ganapati; and Saktism evolved a complicated doctrine in which eight per-
sonifications of Success or the Asta-Siddhis4 were to be worshipped as being one devi,
the sakti of Ganesa.
1 v. Pl. 3 (a). 3 Shakti and Shakta, Sir J. Woodroffe, p. 89.
2 That is: 'left-handed'. 4 v. p. 12.
consorts; but at an early epoch, as will be seen below, he was imaged with a devi
seated beside him sometimes called Laksmi.1 In this form, he was worshipped by
those followers of the Vdmdcdra2 doctrine who admitted 'wine and women' in their
ceremonies.3 The Ganapatya sect conceived five esoteric forms of Ganesa, called
Sakti-Ganapati; and Saktism evolved a complicated doctrine in which eight per-
sonifications of Success or the Asta-Siddhis4 were to be worshipped as being one devi,
the sakti of Ganesa.
1 v. Pl. 3 (a). 3 Shakti and Shakta, Sir J. Woodroffe, p. 89.
2 That is: 'left-handed'. 4 v. p. 12.