Myths about Ganesha

Lord Murugan and his brother Ganesha competed in a divine race to win a sacred mango of wisdom offered by Sage Narada. While Murugan circled the physical world on his peacock, Ganesha won by circling his parents, claiming they were his universe. Feeling slighted, Murugan renounced his home and settled in the Palani Hills as an ascetic.

High in the Himalayas at Mana, the sage Vyasa conceived the monumental epic of the Mahabharata and sought a scribe capable of recording his divine vision. Lord Ganesha accepted the challenge on the condition that Vyasa never pause in his dictation, leading to a legendary intellectual duel. When Ganesha's stylus broke under the pressure of the rapid transcription, he sacrificed his own tusk to...

When the divine messenger Narada brought a fruit of supreme wisdom to Mount Kailash, the brothers Ganesha and Kartikeya both claimed it. To decide the winner, Lord Shiva challenged them to a race around the entire universe. While Kartikeya sped off on his peacock to cover the vast physical world, Ganesha demonstrated his wisdom by simply circling his parents, declaring that for him, they were...