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Ganesha’s Secret: Food alone does not satisfy hunger

By Devdutt Pattanaik

Book information

Publisher
Westland
Year
2017
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2877884 bytes)
Pages
40\0
Time added
2018-01-09 09:04:28
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On this Ganesh Chathurti or Ganpati, as the festival is popularly known in Maharashtra, Devdutt Pattanaik in this extract from 7 Secrets of Shiva, narrates several stories about Ganesha’s birth -- the one in which Shiva beheads him; when Shiva and Shakti make love taking the form of elephants; when Shiva creates a child of his own image for His wife’s pleasure but since he looks too much like the father, Shakti replaces his head with that of an elephant. A perfect obeisance to a God who is worshipped across India as the ‘remover of obstacles’ during the ten-day festival which is celebrated with much gusto.

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