INTRODUCTION

The past is bristled with instances of appeasing the anger of this Lord with - soulful prayers with all rituals due, even by the incarnated personages like Krishna Bhagawan. Why, even Lord Siva his own father suffered owing to unintentional de-recognition of his high office. Though not a Manmatha with a , glow of charisma; Bhima with superabundant strength; or Brihaspati with versatility; or Devendra with supreme sovereignty, this short-statured, potbellied, portly-bodied, broad eared, elephant-faced, much venerated rat-borne god is holding such absolute sway over the sentiment rational beings that everyone looks upon him with reverential awe, for the supreme reason that every enterprise turning defeat-proof, emerges in tying colours, if he is gratified with prayers and kudums. By and large, he is the only god among the Mukkotidevatas adored by one and all, irrespective of the sect or denomination, fragmenting the Hindu Kalpadruma into as many leaves as it bears.

Sacred scriptures eulogised his status and office in such fantastic diction that he is equated with the august Trimurthis, and in many cases and on several occasions, he succoured assistance and lifted them from morass of despair, dragging them to its bottom. 

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