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Veena Ganesha from Lladro

Lladro is a Spanish Company noted for high quality porcelain figurines. This limited edition (2000 units) of porcelain figurine of Veena Ganesha was issued in the year 2006. It retails for $990. In India , it is priced at Rupees 47,000. Lladro signature stores are there in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore . The Spanish porcelain luxury brand Lladro claims that religion as a segment contributes to about 30 per cent of their total sales in India (2015). Ganesha and Veena As per Puranas, Sri Ucchhishta Ganapati (one of the 32 forms of Ganesha) holds a veena. But he has six hands.  He is dark coloured like a blue flower with his six hands holding a pomegranate fruit, veena (a stringed musical instrument), a blue flower, a bunch of rice plants, rosary of the holy beads made of rudraksha, and a noose. Lord Ganesha is symbolic of the music and rhythm of the cosmos. He loves music and sometimes a veena is one of the attributes seen in his hands. He is the patro

Geoffrey A Oddie’s Imagined Hinduism

Imagined Hinduism - British Protestant Missionary Constructions of Hinduism, 1793-1900 is a new book by Geoffrey A Oddie – an honorary research associate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. The book explores the emergence and refinement of the idea of Hinduism and the use of the term ‘Hinduism.’ Oddie says that the term was developed by British Protestant missionaries in the 18th and 19th centuries. Speaking to D.Murali in Hindu Business Line Oddie says "The word Hinduism includes a vast array of different cults, traditions and sects, and some teachings which contradict others. Ideas of Advaita Vedanta, bhakti and many forms of popular worship are usually implied by the term. Quite possibly, the only thing Hindus have in common is a sense of being Hindu." Hindustan Times reports "Whatever conviction there was among travellers that India 's faith and worship was a unified pan-Indian system was prob