Vināyakā & the Violin

With many of the Hindu Gods & Goddesses being associated with musical instruments, it is nice to see that Lord Vinayaka has adopted the violin :) Infact some years ago my mother Smt. Subbulakshmi Muthuswamy had designed a logo for my sister Lalitha and myself - where Lord Vinayaka was playing the Violin. This inspired my sister Dr. M. Lalitha who is also a Tanjore painter to create a Tanjore Painting of Lord Vinayaka playing the Violin. This picture adorns the cover of the book that she authored - Violin Techniques in Western and South Indian Classical Music : a comparative study. Thanks to Lord Vinayaka, we violinists have a "Vādya Dēvatā" :D