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The&nbsp;Gardez Ganesha&nbsp;is a statue of the&nbsp;Hindu&nbsp;god&nbsp;Ganesha, discovered in&nbsp;Gardez, near&nbsp;Kabul&nbsp;in&nbsp;Afghanistan. It is considered as &quot;a typical product of the Indo-Afghan school&quot;Shahre Naow, Kabul, Afghanistan&nbsp;It was dedicated by a king named&nbsp;Khingal.

D.C. Sircar&nbsp;has dated the statue to the 6th-7th century CE, and more precisely 7th century CE based on the paleography of the inscription on its base.[1]&nbsp;Some authors have attributed the statue to the transitional period between&nbsp;Kushan art&nbsp;to&nbsp;Gupta art, to the 5th or even 4th century CE.[1]&nbsp;The statue of Ganesha from Gardez is now attributed to the period of&nbsp;Turk Shahis&nbsp;in the 7-8th century CE, rather than to their successors the&nbsp;Hindu Shahis&nbsp;(9th-10th century) as formerly suggested.[2]&nbsp;The datation is essentially based on stylistic analysis, as the displays great iconographical and stylistic similarities with the works of the Buddhist monastery of&nbsp;Fondukistan, which is also dated to the same period.[2]

The statue of Ganesha is also considered as contemporary to the famous&nbsp;Hindu&nbsp;statue of&nbsp;Surya&nbsp;in tunic and boots discovered in&nbsp;Khair Khaneh&nbsp;near Kabul, also attributed to the Turk Shahis in the 7-8th century CE.[2][3]&nbsp;Archaeologically, the construction of the&nbsp;Khair Khaneh&nbsp;temple itself is now dated to 608-630 CE, at the beginning of the Turk Shahis period.[4]&nbsp;Brahmanism&nbsp;seems to have flourished to some extent under the Turk Shahis, who were primarily supporters of Buddhism, with various works of art also attributed to their period of the 7-8th century CE.[2]

After its discovery in Gardez, the statue was transferred to the Hindu temple of&nbsp;Dargah Pir Rattan Nath&nbsp;in Kabul, near the Pamir Cinema.

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