Results for "Vinayaka"

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…

… n processions is, textually, a single-day household vrata — Vinayaka Caturthī of Bhādrapada. The public, mass-mobilised form is barely 130 years old, and its origin is a specific, …

… not the vrata itself. For the textual roots in Bhādrapada's Vinayaka Caturthī, the documented 1893 transformation into a public festival under Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and the live ten …

… s, **Gaṇeśa Caturthī** is textually a single occasion: the *Vinayaka Caturthī* — the waxing-moon monthly fast for Gaṇeśa — that happens to fall in the month of **Bhādrapada** (roug …

… nd Mudgala Purāṇas, for the textual basis of the Bhādrapada Vinayaka Caturthī vrata itself. - **Documented political and social history:** the 1893 Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav reorganis …