modaka
मोदक modakaA sweet dumpling, classically a steamed rice-flour shell of coconut and jaggery, offered to Ganesha as his favoured food and shared as prasada.
Where this term appears
- What is Ganesh Chaturthi? Worship
Ganesha is associated above all with the modaka , a sweet dumpling, classically a steamed rice-flour shell enclosing coconut and jaggery , the unrefined cane sugar.
- Who is Ganesha? Deities
In his hands he commonly holds a noose and a goad, instruments to draw the devotee near and to spur the wandering mind, and very often a modaka , a sweet dumpling.
- Reading the body Treatise
In the ordinary images of Ganesha the tip of the trunk curls to a bowl of sweets, the modaka , the god's famous appetite turned to its harmless delight.
- The consort and the union Treatise
This is why the form needed the consort, and why it could not have made its point with the gentle modaka-bowl of the ordinary images.