Ganesha
- Also known as: Ganapati, Vinayaka, Vighnaharta
Ganesha is the beloved remover of obstacles and lord of beginnings, wisdom, and auspicious starts.
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Featured booklet: Ganesha: Before Every Beginning
Key relationships: Parvati, Shiva, Subrahmanya, Mouse vahana
Ganesha turns a painful mistake into repair, wisdom, and auspicious beginnings.
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Ganapati: Beyond the Obstacle Remover
You know the elephant head, the modaka and the mouse. Fewer people know the Purāṇas centred on Ganesha himself — the eight great manifestations of the Mudgala Purāṇa, a Gaṇeśa Gītā in which a king asks to see the cosmic form, or the traditions in which Ganesha does not only remove obstacles but governs them.
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