Shiva, not knowing the boy's identity, decapitated him in anger. Shiva, her husband, arrived, the boy barred him, not knowing Shiva to be his father. According to the Shiva Purāṅa, Pārvatī fashioned a handsome boy out of the unguents and other applications she had used in her bath, and asked him to guard the entrance to her apartment against strangers. There are many different accounts of Gaṅesha birth. His real origin lies in India's far distant past even the compilers of the Purāṅas and other ancient writers have lost all track of it. Son of Shiva and Pārvatī, he is, however, not their natural offspring. GANESHA In Hinduism, no other god is as often invoked as Ganesha, or Ganapati, "lord of the gaṇas,"or Shiva's dwarf attendants, Gajānana, "he with the elephant's head." Predominantly the god of good luck, Ganesha is worshiped at the start of any important enterprise.
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