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Ganesh was born on 4 December 1962 to a Tamil brahmin family, in Kolar, Karnataka, to R. Shankar Narayan Aiyar and K. V. Alamelamma. [1] Ganesh picked up Tamil, Kannada and Telugu from his environment as a child. [11] Also in his childhood, he read Sanskrit and Kannada literature and was writing poetry at the age of sixteen. [11]
Ganapati Muni was born in Kalavarayai near Bobbili in Andhra Pradesh on 17 November 1878. His parents, Narasimha Sastri and Narasamamba had three sons, Muni being the second.
The name Ganesha is a Sanskrit compound, joining the words gana (gaṇa), meaning a 'group, multitude, or categorical system' and isha (īśa), meaning 'lord or master'. [18] The word gaṇa when associated with Ganesha is often taken to refer to the gaṇas, a troop of semi-divine beings that form part of the retinue of Shiva, Ganesha's father ...
The Ganapatyas consider Ganesha as their primary deity, and the mythology of Ganesha found in this Purana is part of their tradition. [14] The text is also significant because it relates to Ganesha, who is the most worshipped god in Hinduism, and revered as the god of beginnings by all major Hindu traditions, namely Shaivism, Vaishnavism ...
The deities of Kottarakkara Sree Mahaganapathy Kshethram are Shiva, his consort Parvati, his sons Ganesha, Murugan and Ayyappan, and the serpent deity Nagaraja. Even though the main deity is Shiva, the main priority is given to Ganesha. All deities except Parvati and Ganesha face east. The main offerings of the temple are Unniyappam.
There are many kritis (compositions) in praise of Lord Ganesha set in this musical scale. Jalajaskhi an adi Talam Varnam; Gajamukhane Siddhidayakane by Vyasatirtha; Raghunāyaka,Śrī Raghukula and Abhishta varada by Tyagaraja in Telugu; Vātāpi Gaṇapatiṃand parvathypathim by Muthuswami Dikshitar in Sanskrit; Pāhi Śripatē by Swathi ...
Phyllis Granoff reviews the internal evidence and concludes that the Mudgala was the last of the philosophical texts concerned with Ganesha [4] R. C. Hazra suggested that the Mudgala Purana is earlier than the Ganesha Purana which he dates between 1100 and 1400 A.D. [5] Granoff finds problems with this relative dating because the Mudgala Purana ...
The universe and the elements are said to be created by Ganesha. Ganesha is described as the remover of obstacles. He is worshipped by the sage Agastya and the God Vishnu. He resides in the Muladhara chakra and exists in four kinds of speech – Para, Pashyanti, Madhyama and Vaikhari. The sacred Om is said to be his body. Ganesha's iconography ...