With a shining bronze prabhavali around him and the supplicant form of Mushak, his vahan (vehicle), beneath him, Lord Ganesha sits enjoying the sweet flavor of the modak, his favorite sweet. He is lovingly carved in his pot-bellied glory, trunk shaped precisely, fluid in its movement. As the remover of all obstacles, he is worshipped before any felicitous event—even all the gods in the pantheon offer prayers to him.
Not only that but he is incredibly wise too. Once, a man named Ved Vyas, who is often attributed with having written the Mahabharata went to Lord Ganesha and pleaded with him to help him accomplish this monumental task. Lord Ganesha agreed but on the condition that Ved Vyas could not even take a moment to breathe and would continue speaking all the verses of the epic poem without fail. Ved Vyas agreed readily, thinking that he would provide him with a weak quill that would break soon and thus lead him to take a break. However, when the moment came and the quill broke, Lord Ganesha wasted no time and broke off his own tusk, rumbling the great Mount Kailash, and continued writing. He came to be known as ‘Ekdanta’ after that and is depicted with one of his own tusks in his hand for that reason.
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