The festival of Ganesha Chaturthi, celebrating the birthday of Ganesha, is observed from the 4-10 Bhadrapada in the bright fortnight and is the main holiday of the year in Maharashtra.
Brother Warth (of Sector 2): An elephant-like alien who bears a strong resemblance to the Hindu god Ganesha that is recruited by Saint Walker.
Prachi gets a Ganesha statue and goes to Gayatri's house to give it to her out of gratitude.
The iconic figures of Krishna, Radha, and Ganesha that found lyrical expression in the Icons series are modern representations and sophisticated idealizations of the same images in the popular media.
The first is the sacred sign of Ganesha, called āñjī, used for millennia by students before beginning Tirhuta studies.
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After the death of Ponnambala Pillai, Ganesha Iyer was a student under Chunnakam Kumaraswamy Pulavar for some time.
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Ganesha Iyer had his primary education (up to 8th standard) in a Saiva school in the courtyard of Siththi Vinayagar Temple and was a Teacher at the same school later on.
The main shrine is flanked by subsidiary shrines that include the protectors of the Chinese animal horoscopes, the local earth god (Tu-Di Gong), as well as popular Hindu deities, including Ganesh, Prithvi, and Brahma.
The deities invoked are Sharada, Ganesha, Sarasvati, Maccha, Kacchap, Varaha, Narasimha, Vaman, Parashuram, Ram and Krishna Avatars of Vishnu, Bhairunath, Ramdev, Shani, Surya and Chandrama.
The Bugle Rock garden is behind the Dodda Ganesha temple and adjacent to the Bull temple.
The organisation has also campaigned against immersion of Ganesha idols in water bodies.
Within this Balinese temple compound also founds several Hindu-Buddhist statues estimated dated from 10th to 13th century, such as the statue of Amoghapasa, Ganesha, Bhatara, Durga Mahisasuramardhini, and Budha.
A cobra hood raised over Ganesha's head, shelters the Lord.
According to a legend, on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi (August–September) - the largest festival dedicated to Ganesha - Morya could not find a place in the temple, crowded by the laity and the wealthy Pingle family.
The Mount Edgecombe Ganesha Temple is a provincial heritage site in Inanda in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
Mudgala Purana, a Hindu religious text dedicated to the Hindu deity Ganesha (Gaṇeśa)
These are not the same as the four incarnations of Ganesha that are described in the Ganesha Purana.
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Like the Ganesha Purana, the Mudgala Purana considers Ganesha to represent the ultimate reality of being.
Ganesha, Mudgala, and Hamsa, with only a few having been critically edited.
A contemporary Arakanese tradition recorded that the army of Raja Ganesha, then firmly in control of Pandua, had defeated Ibrahim in battle.
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According to this tradition, one of the rulers of Arakan, who had been given refuge in Pandua after having been defeated by a Burman monarch in 1406, gave Raja Ganesha the military advice that enabled his army to defeat Ibrahim .
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A number of scholars, which include Jadunath Sarkar, who favour the identification of Raja Ganesha with Danujamardanadeva believe that after the death of Raja Ganesha, the Hindu party in the court raised his second son to the throne under the title Mahendradeva, who was soon ousted by his elder brother Jalal-ud-Din.
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But Ahmad Hasan Dani regarded Danujamardanadeva and Mahendradeva as the local chiefs in East and South Bengal who asserted independence during troubles caused by the capture of power by Raja Ganesha and the invasions of Ibrahim Shah Sharqi.
Although Ganesha initially refuses, upon the repeated pleas of his two wives Riddhi and Siddhi, sons, sister and the divine sage Narada, Ganesha creates Santoshi Mata through two flames rising from his wives' breasts.
Gauri Puja is performed on the fifth day after Ganesh Chaturthi, during Ganesha Puja in Western India, to celebrate the arrival of Gauri, Mother of Ganesha, to come and bring her son back home.
The town is known for its temple to Sri Siddhi Vināyaka, the right-tusked incarnation of Ganesha as "Masterful Remover".
As prophesied by Swami Samarth, after 21 years after the burial of the icons, a mandar tree grew at that spot with a svayambhu Ganesha in its branches.
Tachikawa-ryu ideas and influences also appeared in cultic practices with Dual Ganesha (Sōshin Kangiten) and Aizen Myō-Ō (Ragaraja), and in the other main orthodox school of mikkyo Tendai, in their Genshi Kimyōdan cult.
Written and composed by Manachanallur Giridharan this song has references to the entire legend surrounding the Uchi Pillaiyar temple including the Vibishana's chase of Lord Ganesha and the inception of the temple.
Many of the sculptures include small motifs of modernity, such as a small pint of Guinness beside a Ganesha and a mobile telephone tucked into the back of a starving Buddha.