Synopsis Ganesa's popularity is manifold. He is the favourite god of the masses. He is also the favourite subject for curio-hunters and collectors of icons. Painters and sculptors have reveled in depicting this god in a variety of forms and postures. The Tantrik practitioners have found in him a beneficient poer, quick to acquire and enduring in nature. Literature about Ganesh is rematkable, varied and large. Works in Sanskrit, which appear to have provides the main source materitla for all of them, are themselves large in number and varied in nature. An attempt has been made here to present a comprehensive picture og Ganesa that is of interest to an Indian mind. The picture assumes the Vedic origin of Ganesa and the Smriti and the Tantrick involvements of the deity. It recognizes the primal importance ogiven to this god in the daily life of millions of Indians. It seeks to provide authentic information about Ganesh from texts. The books contains drawings of numerous Ganesa Icons, worshipped in temples or preserved in muscums.