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Before dawn on 20 September 1995, a worshipper at a temple in southern New Delhi made an offering of milk to a statue of Ganesha. When a spoonful of milk from the bowl was held up to the trunk of the statue, the liquid appeared to disappear, apparently taken in by the idol.
Panchamukha Ganesha, the San Diego Museum of Art The deity Ganesha is sometimes represented with five faces in his iconography, called Heramba or Panchamukha Ganesha. Each head of the deity is said to represent the five koshas , the sheaths of annamaya, pranamaya, manomaya, vijñānamaya, and anandamaya.
Ganesha (/gəɳeɕᵊ/ ,Sanskrit: गणेश, IAST: Gaṇeśa), also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Lambodara and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon [4] and is the Supreme God in the Ganapatya sect. His depictions are found throughout India. [5]
Murtis (Sanskrit: मूर्ति) are sacred works of art, primarily in the form of statues and paintings, which serve as representations of divinity, for use during religious devotion. Murtis are a huge part of contemporary mainstream Hindu culture and often hold significant sentimental value in many Hindu homes.
Thirty-two forms of Ganesha are mentioned frequently in devotional literature related to the Hindu god Ganesha. [1] [2] [3] The Ganesha-centric scripture Mudgala Purana is the first to list them. [4] Detailed descriptions are included in the Shivanidhi portion of the 19th-century Kannada Sritattvanidhi.
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