Representation of: Gaṇeśa12 via The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Footnotes
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गण, ganá: “a flock, troop, multitude, number, tribe, series, class (of animate or inanimate beings), body of followers or attendants (Monier-Williams 343)” + ईश, īśá: “a ruler, master, lord (Monier-Williams 171)” ↩
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Brahmañaspati is explained by Sáyaña, brahmaño annasya parivridhasya karmano vá pálayatri, the protector or cherisher of food, or of any great or solemn acts of devotion: he has other attributes in the text, as, ganánám ganapatih, chief of the ganas, which generally denotes the classes of the inferior divinities, as the commentator here understands it; and again, jyeshtharájam brahmanám, the best lord of mantras, or prayers,— prasasyam swiminam mantránám (Wilson 262). ↩