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Ganesha (Sanskrit: ????, IAST: Ga?e?a) Also Known As Ganapati And Vinayaka, Is One Of The Best-Known And Most Worshipped Deities In The Hindu Pantheon. His Image Is Found Throughout India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia (Java & Bali) Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, And Bangladesh And In Countries With Large Ethnic Indian Populations Including Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, And Trinidad & Tobago. Hindu Denominations Worship Him Regardless Of Affiliations. Devotion To Ganesha Is Widely Diffused And Extends To Jains And Buddhists.An Elephant–Headed Anthropomorphic Figure On Indo-Greek Coins From The 1st Century BCE Has Been Proposed By Some Scholars To Be "Incipient Ganesha", While Others Have Suggested Ganesha May Have Been An Emerging Deity In India And Southeast Asia Around The 2nd Century CE Based On The Evidence From Archaeological Excavations In Mathura And Outside India. Most Certainly By The 4th & 5th Centuries CE, During The Gupta Period, Ganesha Was Well Established And HadInherited Traits From Vedic And Pre-Vedic Precursors. Hindu Mythology Identifies Him As Restored Son Of Parvati And Shiva Of The Shaivism Tradition, But He Is A Pan-Hindu God Found In Its Various Traditions. In the Ganapatya Tradition Of Hinduism, Ganesha Is The Supreme Deity. The Principal Texts On Ganesha Include The Ganesha Purana, The Mudgala Purana And The Ganapati Atharvashirsa. Brahma Purana And Brahmanda Purana Are Other Two Puranic Genre Encyclopaedic Texts That Deal With Ganesh.