INTRODUCTION

Of the many, delineating his multifaceted career, Mudgal Purana claims priority in embodying a rich corpus encircling his life and the multiplicity of activities he is involved in. Though he is worshipped by the Hindu minded Indians from Peaks to Cape and Dwaraka to Dharang Wong across, it is only the erst-while Bombay state that monopolised in worshipping him on a scale grand; fervor inimitable; forms innumerable; and ways incalculable. Go across the state lengthwise or breadth wise, sure you can see everywhere his shrines in every village, niches in big temples, icons in street corners, portraits in every house, and pen dents in the neck chains of the ardent devotees. The house may not have proper door, but it invariably adorns the lintel of the entrance with the carving or an image of Ganesh or colourful paper copy artistically pasted. Every hamlet, town or city celebrates the Ganesh Chathurthi, the annual festival in a grandiose manner with enormous expenditure exceeding the budget figure of some states, recently added to the Indian Union.

(Vide the author's AGS No.7 for further information)

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