Results for "Ekadanta"

Sage Veda Vyāsa needs a scribe who can keep pace with divine revelation. Brahmā sends him to Gaṇeśa — and a pact of wit is struck: the pen must never stop, but every verse must fir…

Elder son of Shiva and Parvati, invoked first in every rite as the remover of obstacles and patron of letters. His circumambulation of his parents over chasing the cosmos remains t…

… on; seeing deeply rather than broadly. - **The broken tusk (Ekadanta)** — in the most common account, he snapped it himself to use as a stylus, taking dictation of the Mahābhārata …

AUM read through cymatics and the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad, and Nāda Brahman read through the Gandharva Veda — the seven svaras, the 22 microtonal śrutis, and a wave-first model of matter…

Beyond the beloved remover of obstacles: the Gaṇapati Atharvaśīrṣa reveals Gaṇeśa as the primordial sound Om itself, the visible Absolute, and the presiding deity of the Mūlādhāra …

Where Gaṇeśa's mouse comes from in the Gaṇeśa and Mudgala Purāṇas, why the pairing looks so odd, and how teachers have read it, separating the stories the texts tell from the lesso…

… ing a demon who stands for a fault. Several of these forms (Ekadanta, Mahodara, Gajānana, Lambodara) ride the mouse. In the Gajānana story the god defeats **Lobhāsura**, the demon …