KEDARNATH 
The Himalayan abode of Lord Maheswar

MUNDAKATTA GANESH

On the way to this Kund, there is a small shrine called Mundakatta Ganesh-headless Ganesh and narrates a strange anecdote. The legend recounts that Parvathi once created Ganesh out of Her perspiration and instructed him to stand at the entrance guarding, while She was taking bath. By accident Siva came in then and was refused admission by Ganesh. Siva in a fit of anger cut his head anon. When Parvathi implored Her Lord for giving him rife on narrating the entire episode, Siva breathed life into him, attaching the head of an elephant, and named him as Vigneswara; so devotees prostrate before him for removing obstacles in their endeavors. 'Aadan pujyo Ganadhipah emerged thus, and all gods and humans adore him with great veneration since then.

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