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  Nayna

  11 months ago

  Lord Ganesh is an universal deity and His aura has its roots practically worldwide. His form has been seen in Greece as the Greek God of wisdom, Janus, where he is depicted with the head of an elephant and like Ganesh he is also invoked at the commencement of prayers and auspicious events.
  
  Rome: In Rome, He is known as the God of learning and depicted with a quill and inkpot.
  
  In Sri Lanka, Lord Ganesh is known as Pillaiyar or Gana Deviyo. In Jaffna, He is known as the guardian of the crops and so we see many of His temples near the fields. The Karunakara Pilliayar Temple is said to be constructed by Karunakara Tondaiman, the commander of Kulottunga Chola I dating back to 1070-1118 AD.
  
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  subhash

  10 months ago

  'Syamantak' diamond and the curse of Seeing moon in Vinayagar Chaturti Day
  
  Continuing with the divine tales of Sri Krishna, Lord Mahadeva told Parvati—
  
  
  Read this story if you mistakenly seen the moon today no evil will befall you thru the year….
  
  
  Sri Krishna had 16 thousand queens among whom Satyabhama, Kalindi, Mitravinda, etc. were prominent.King Sattajit had a priceless diamond named--Syamantak, which he had presented to his younger brother--Prasena. Sri Krishna was fascinated by that diamond and demanded it from Prasena, which he refused to part with.
  
  One day, Sri Krishna alongwith Prasena and other yadavas went into the forest for hunting. While chasing a deer, Prasena seceded from his group and was killed by a lion. The lion took the diamond and started playing with it. Incidentally, Jambavan--who had once fought along with Sri Ram against Ravana, saw the lion playing with the diamond. He killed that lion and took the diamond in his possession.
  
  When Sri Krishna returned to Dwarka, he was surprised by a strange rumour, which pervaded the whole city. Some people suspected that Sri Krishna had killed Prasena for the diamond.Sri Krishna was very much distributed by this baseless rumour. To clear the doubts, he went into the forest accompanied by all the residents of Dwarka and showed the dead body of Prasena, which was still lying there. When people saw the mutilated corpse of Prasena, which bore marks of the lion's claws and canines, they became convinced of Sri Krishna's innocense.
  
  While returning back to Dwarka, Sri Krishna saw an effulgent cave. Sri Krishna was very surprised and wanted to find out the source of light. He entered the cave and saw Prasena's diamond hanging on top of a cradle, in which a child was lying. A woman was singing a lulaby so that the child falls asleep---'The lion killed Prasena while Jambavan killed the lion and acquired this diamond from its possession. O child! Don't cry as this priceless diamond belongs to your father.'Sri Krishna furiously blew his conch. Jambavan came out from the cave after listening to the sound of the conch. A fierce duel took place between them, which continued for ten days. At last, Jambavan realized that the person against whom he was fighting was none other than Sri Ram himself. Jambhavan then gave his daughter--Jambavati to Krishna in marriage and gave lot of wealth as dowry including that 'Syamantak' diamond. Bhadraraj had three daughters--Sulakshamana, Nagnajiti and Susheela. Sri Krishna had married all three of them in a 'Swayamwara'. This way, Sri Krishna had altogether eight prominent queen consorts--Rukmini, Satyabhama, Kalindi, Mitravinda, Jambavati, Nagnajiti, Sulakshamana and Susheela.
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