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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 433572, member: 2844"]I am not sure we should focus on Thailand. </p><p>Pity we can't discern the script, which could be any of the many Devanagari scripts. Thai is what people know, because it is a tourist paradise. But different versions of Devanagari script are used from India to the Philippines. Picking just one of them could mean we never find out what this is.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first thought as well, but the meditative posture is unusual for Ganesha.</p><p>Ganesha is a Hindu deity. The Thai, like many mainland Southeast Asians, are mainly Buddhist. The Hindus in Thailand are of Indian origin, which would rule out Thai script. Hindus all over the world favour Sanskrit for religious texts.</p><p>Indonesian Hinduism incorporates some Buddhist elements, but this doesn't look Indonesian to me either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 433572, member: 2844"]I am not sure we should focus on Thailand. Pity we can't discern the script, which could be any of the many Devanagari scripts. Thai is what people know, because it is a tourist paradise. But different versions of Devanagari script are used from India to the Philippines. Picking just one of them could mean we never find out what this is. My first thought as well, but the meditative posture is unusual for Ganesha. Ganesha is a Hindu deity. The Thai, like many mainland Southeast Asians, are mainly Buddhist. The Hindus in Thailand are of Indian origin, which would rule out Thai script. Hindus all over the world favour Sanskrit for religious texts. Indonesian Hinduism incorporates some Buddhist elements, but this doesn't look Indonesian to me either.[/QUOTE]
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