"Ganesh" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that, if they asked for it, then somehow or other the key of the cupboard would be missing; or else Ganesh, his old family servant, had ...
— The Hungry Stones And Other Stories • Rabindranath Tagore
... 'household gods' generally comprise five sacred symbols, namely, the salagrama stone of Vishnu, the bana-linga of Siva, a metallic stone representing the female principle in nature (Sakti), a crystal representing the sun, and a red stone representing Ganesh, the remover of obstacles. The details of the tiresome ritual observed in the worship of these objects occupy pp. 412 to 416 of Monier Williams's Religious Thought and ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman
... prayed to us, and yet there be only a few grains of rice and some broken cowries before him after all. Men's hearts will be hardened by this thing." And Shiv said, "It shall be looked to," and so he called to the temple, which was the temple of his son, Ganesh of the elephant head, saying, "Son, there is a mendicant without who is very poor. What wilt thou do for him?" Then that great elephant-headed One awoke in the dark and answered, "In three days, if it be thy will, ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling |
