Ashtavinayak diaries-8
The only Ashtavinyak who is named after an ardent devotee
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Ashtavinayak diaries-6
The Astavinayak yatra as per the Shastokta sequence is supposed to start and end with this temple
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Ashtavinayak diaries -5
Siddhivinayak of Siddhatek is the only Ashtavinayak whose trunk bends to the right
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Ashtavinayak Diaries – 2
The only Ashtavinayak who resides on a mountain or rather, a mountain cave is the Lenyadri Ganpati named Girijatmaj. “ Lena “means cave in Marathi and sure enough there are about 30 of them on this mountain and all of them are Buddhist caves, serially numbered and dating back to the 3rd century AD. Cave
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Ashtavinayak Diaries – 1
Earlier this year, my wife and I decided to do the Ashtavinayak circuit, very popular among Maharashtrians but not known to many outside the state. It involves a visit to pray at 8 Ganapati temples in Maharashtra, with most of them around Pune. What is special about these temples? It is believed that all these
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Lalbaugcha Raja
As has been our practice for the last few years, this time too we were at Lalbaug on Ganesh Chaturthi for ‘ mukh darshan ‘ of the Raja. Total time for darshan – One hour fifty minutes. Well managed crowds though there was a fair bit of jostling in front of the idol. The volunteers