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I feel great pleasure in contributing this Foreword to Dr. Om Prakash Singh's I conography of Gaja-Lakshmi which is the first comprehensive study of its kind, throwing refreshingly new light on many aspects of this deity as gleaned from literature and art, terracottas, coins and seals. His treatement of the origin and antiquity of the Gaja-Lakshmi image make a complete departure from that of the various authors on the subject. He believes that the motif of Gaja Lakshmi symbolises the Indian idea of prosperity and abundance. It frequently occurred on the coins, seals and sculptural panels belonging to dlfferent periods prior to, and after, the Sanchi sculpture with similar attributer depicted in the best tradition of Hindu mythology. And, this certainly points to the existence of the Sri Lakshmi cult before the execution of the Sanchi gate-ways, and thus convincingly refutes the theory of the foreign origin of the goddess as suggested by some scholars.
Dr. Singh's contention that Gaja-Laksmi was an agricultural deity possessing many Aryan and non Aryan traits is remarkably striking. Evidences rom literary and archaeological sources do suggest that in the Gaja-Laksmi motif, he female represents the earth and the gajas ( elephants) stand for nags (serpents or clouds). In the Indian agrarian system when sources of irrigation were not many, crops were dependent or rains and earth could produce vegetation after receiving rains from the clouds as Indra is described in the Vedas again and again as freeing the streams. Thus, a regular food-production could be posswible only from the fertile land when it was watered (anointed) by the thundering rain-clouds. In other words, the primitive, abstract idea of Sri was in the course of time converted into a real inagery when earth was shown in the form of a lady and the rain clouds as nagas. One may or may not agree with all the views of Dr. Singh, but there is no doubt that he has presented a very lucid account of the various facets of this goddesswhich will long remain a pioneer work in the field.
As s natural, such endeavour has its own limitations but then it can not be denied that Dr. Singh has broken many new grounds in the present monograph which will receive due appreciation from the indologists of India and abroad.
Condition of the book: Usable; but the pages and cover look very old
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