I was playing around with the elephant and the Ganesha idol thinking of how best they would go together. And somehow I thought of this title and the picture took birth!

For those unaware of the Hindu God Ganesha, here is a small background - According to the Shiva Purana, Lord Shiva's (one of the three important Gods in the Hindu pantheon) wife, Parvati once wanted to take bath and created a boy from the dirt of her own body, asking him to stand as a guard outside while she bathed. In the meantime Lord Shiva returned home to find a stranger at his door, preventing him from entering. In anger, Shiva cut off the boy's head, upon which Parvati was stricken with great grief. In order to console her, Shiva sent out his troops to fetch the head of anyone found sleeping with his head pointing to the north. They found an elephant sleeping thus and brought back its head. Shiva then attached the elephantine head to the body of the boy and revived him. He named the boy Ganesha and granted him a boon that anyone would have to worship him before beginning any undertaking.

I guess that legend explains the picture and the title :-)

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# posted by Suyog @ Friday, March 11, 2005