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8 Ashtavinayak Ganpati Temples in India

As you plan your pilgrimage to these sacred sites, remember the words of Lord Ganesha: "Sarve janah sukhino bhavantu," which translates to "May all beings be happy." May your journey to these temples bring you happiness, peace, and divine blessings.

Creation of Ganesha

The creation of Lord Ashtavinayak Ganpati is a fascinating tale that varies in different Hindu texts and traditions. However, the most popular and widely accepted version is found in the Shiva Purana and the Skanda Purana. According to this legend:

Once, Goddess Parvati, the divine consort of Lord Shiva, wished to bathe and create a guardian to stand watch while she did so. She took some turmeric paste and molded it into the shape of a boy. She breathed life into the form, and Ganesha, with his distinctive elephant head, was born. Parvati instructed him not to allow anyone to enter while she bathed.

Meanwhile, Lord Shiva returned to the abode and attempted to enter the chamber where Parvati was bathing. Ganesha, loyal to his mother's command, blocked Shiva's path. This led to a confrontation between the two, resulting in Shiva beheading Ganesha in a fit of rage.

India, a land rich in culture and spirituality, is home to countless temples dedicated to various deities. Among these, Lord Ganesha, the beloved elephant-headed God, holds a special place in the hearts of millions. In this article, we embark on a journey to explore some of the most revered temples in India dedicated to Shri Ganesh, each with its own unique history, significance, and rituals.

Siddhivinayak Temple, Mumbai

Location: Prabhadevi, Mumbai

The Siddhivinayak Temple, situated in the bustling city of Mumbai, is one of the most famous Ganesh temples in India. Dedicated to Lord Siddhivinayak, an incarnation of Ganesha, this temple witnesses a massive influx of devotees throughout the year, especially during the auspicious Ganesh Chaturthi festival. The idol of Lord Ganesha here is believed to be self-manifested and is adorned with various ornaments, including a golden crown and a silver mask.

Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati Temple, Pune

Location: Pune, Maharashtra

Pune, another city in Maharashtra, boasts the impressive Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati Temple. Established in the late 19th century by a sweetmeat seller named Dagdusheth Halwai, this temple is a symbol of devotion and philanthropy. The highlight of this temple is its massive Ganesh idol, adorned with nearly 8 kilograms of gold. The Dagdusheth Temple is a must-visit for devotees seeking Lord Ganesha's blessings.

Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi

Location: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Varanasi, the spiritual capital of India, is home to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple, where Lord Ganesha is worshiped alongside Lord Shiva. This ancient temple holds immense religious significance and attracts pilgrims from all over the world. Devotees believe that a visit to this temple grants them spiritual enlightenment and liberation from the cycle of birth and death.

Karpaga Vinayakar Temple, Tamil Nadu

Location: Pillayarpatti, Tamil Nadu

Traveling south to Tamil Nadu, we encounter the Karpaga Vinayakar Temple, nestled in the village of Pillayarpatti. This temple is renowned for its unique idol of Lord Ganesha, carved out of a single stone. The idol is six feet tall and is said to be more than 1600 years old. Devotees visit this temple to seek blessings for wisdom, knowledge, and the removal of obstacles.

Ucchi Pillayar Temple, Rockfort, Trichy

Location: Trichy, Tamil Nadu

In the heart of Tamil Nadu's Trichy city stands the Ucchi Pillayar Temple, perched atop the Rockfort. This temple offers breathtaking panoramic views of the city and is dedicated to Lord Ganesha. To reach the sanctum sanctorum, devotees must climb a steep flight of stairs carved into the rock. The temple provides a serene and spiritual escape from the urban hustle and bustle.

Kudroli Gokarnath Temple, Mangalore

Location: Mangalore, Karnataka

Kudroli Gokarnath Temple, located in the coastal town of Mangalore, is a beautiful example of Dravidian architecture. This temple, dedicated to Lord Ganesha and Lord Shiva, was built by Narayana Guru, a social reformer, and spiritual leader. The idol of Lord Ganesha in this temple is unique, as it is depicted in a standing posture, holding various symbolic items.

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Birla Ganpati Temple, Pune, Maharashtra A huge Ganesha statue of 23 meters at the outskirts of Pune. (via Instagram)

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The Almost Wedding (Ch.I)

Arjun was this close to murdering someone.

More specifically, he was close to grabbing his dear darling sister by her perfectly styled hair and sticking her neck onto a guillotine. At least then she would shut up and stop bothering him.

"Arjun I swear," Tanishka said for maybe the millionth time in the last two hours, "you had better be on your best behaviour, I won't have you- I don't know- flirting with anyone or something even stupider—"

"Aga majhi bai, I got it," he finally snapped, smacking his palms together in a sarcastic namaskar, making her click her jaw shut. "I'll be quiet the entire time. And Tai, why would I flirt with some random boy? He's probably homophobic, anyway."

Her hazel eyes narrowed in a glare, and he returned it with a flat look before turning around to look in the mirror, running his hands through his hair to separate the wavy black strands and checking his subtle eye makeup again. It looked good— just a little gold glitter on the lid and a smudge of kajal on the lower lash line, bringing out the soft golden specks in his eyes. His lip gloss was transparent, but it was enough to make his Cupid’s bow pop.

Tanishka, finally realising she was being ignored, huffed and strode away. Arjun snickered as the sound of her paayal grew fainter and fainter, then went back to applying concealer. College was a harrowing experience, especially for post graduate medical students, and Arjun was not getting enough sleep. At least the concealer helped hide the designer under-eye bags.

"ARJUN!"

He jerked in surprise, and glared at the open door of his room, cursing under his breath. He almost messed up his makeup, dammit!

"EK MINUTE ALO," he yelled back, twisting his concealer tube shut and throwing it onto the dresser, then slipped out into the hallway.

He rushed down the set of staircases three steps at a time, tugging at his collar and adjusting his jeans so the multi-coloured rhinestones on the back pockets arranged in the bi flag were visible.

He had chosen the basic white shirt and baggy jeans on purpose, because while the rest of the family was wearing traditional clothing, he did not have a single kurta to his name and he had been too busy with his studies to go out and buy one. He often thought he had made a mistake by saying he wanted to become a doctor. He really should have followed Krushna into the modelling industry. At least then he would not have to bust his brain— just his body, and he would have had his best friend with him instead of halfway across the world.

He jumped the last seven steps, and was immediately met with a resounding smack upside the head.

"Aai ga," he whined, rubbing his hand over the back of his head and scowling playfully at his snickering aunt as she walked past, the pallu of her baby pink saree swinging left to right. "Chinu Maushi, don't you get tired of being annoying?"

She tossed her hair over her shoulder and winked. "Nahi. Ata chal, get a move on, they'll be here soon."

Ah. Right. His sister’s suitor.

The Kulkarni family had agreed to a rendezvous to decide if their youngest was compatible with Tanishka, and Arjun’s mother had been going crazy setting the house to rights and getting the servants to clean out every single room of the mansion. Even the unused ones. Arjun had made the mistake of asking if the guests were to be hosted in the second basement, and had gotten a chappal thrown at his head for his troubles.

"Yeah, yeah, coming," he muttered, sticking his hands into his pockets and following her out into the kitchen, where his mother was already directing the servants to prepare food and drinks for the Ganpati festival, which was in less than a week, and for the guests that were set to come in about five minutes.

“Hi, Aai,” he said, leaning down to press a kiss to his mother’s temple, and grinned when he received the weird combination of a harried glare and a soft pat to his cheek.

Lavanya Deshpande was one of the most influential actresses in Bollywood, and at the ripe age of fifty-seven, was the richest producer of the Hindi film industry. Despite being married off at the young age of nineteen into a family that did not treat her well and popping out her first baby at twenty, she had risen to national fame and become a household name by the time she was twenty-six, having acted in over a hundred films and produced several blockbusters through the course of her career. She had divorced her husband at twenty-eight and taken her two kids away, changed her surname back to her maiden name, and proceeded to take the international film industry by storm in a short five years.

“Hi, babdi,” she replied, and promptly shoved something into his mouth. “How does it taste?”

Arjun chewed on the thing for two slow seconds, then brightened when he realised it was a gulaab jamun. He nodded enthusiastically and snapped off two quick finger guns.

“Kadak,” he said through the mouthful of the mithai, and she smacked him upside the head. He yelped, but she smacked him again, the look on her face halfway between fond and exasperated. “Swallow your morsel before you speak, murkha!”

Arjun whined in outrage, but one sharp look from her and he subsided, muttering complaints under his breath and rubbing his head. The kitchen— a large white tiled room with two island counters and a whole baking station that was actually used for making festival faraal and mithai rather than cakes and pastries— had been overtaken by the two workers who were cooking up a storm for the festival, and Arjun sniffed appreciatively at a container filled with saffron milk, only to be pushed away by Aai.

“Nahi, Arjunie,” she said sternly. “This is for the guests, you can have as much as you’d like afterwards.”

Before he could reply, the bell rang.

His mother rose to her feet and glided out of the room, the skirts of her baby blue Anarkali flaring out behind her, and a minute later Arjun heard the front door open and the muffled sounds of greetings from the receiving hall. He exchanged a grimace with Chinu Maushi, and exhaled through his nose. She poked him in the back to make him straighten his posture to appear at least halfway polite, and beckoned him to follow her to the living room.

He took a stand next to one of the sofas and stuck his tongue out at Tanishka, just as Aai walked in with the guests.

Four people— siblings, because the parents had passed away. They walked in behind his mother, who had her socialite smile pasted on her beautiful face, and Arjun's breath caught.

All of them were utterly, absolutely gorgeous.

The two women and two men were wearing well fitted casual ethnic clothes, with the older man and woman dressed in identical royal purple kurta and trouser sets with delicate silver embroidery at the collar, and the younger two dressed in white with purple embroidery. They had matching arched eyebrows, smooth skin, oddly perfect noses, and pink lips that were pulled up into polite smiles that made their dark eyes crinkle at the edges, giving the impression that they were actually paying attention to whatever Arjun's mother was saying.

Bappa knew Arjun was not paying attention.

No, he was distracted by the visitors' sheer beauty as they pressed their hands together into a namaskar and bowed their heads. If Tanishka was marrying into this, he was envious, because those were some magnificent genetics. Yes, he grew up around big name actors and actresses walking in and out of his house on a daily basis, but that just made it easier for him to recognise real beauty when he saw it.

"—and of course, my son, Arjun." He snapped back into focus and sent his most charming smile towards them.

"Everyone," his mother said, "these are the Kulkarni siblings. Chandan, the oldest—" the criminally handsome man waved— "Charuta, Charita, and Chaitanya, the youngest."

A chorus of greetings echoed around the room, and they all sat down as the house workers placed trays piled with food and drinks on the teapoy in the middle of the set of sofas.

“So, Chaitanya,” Lavanya began, a large, genuine smile curving up her red-painted lips, “how are you, my child?”

Chaitanya gave her wide smile, and Arjun was pretty sure he felt butterflies in his stomach. The boy was pretty, with almond shaped deep brown eyes, pouty rosebud lips and a pointy chin that would have made him look delicate if not for the sharp cut of his jaw and the intelligent curve of his eyebrows. "Mi masta, Madame, what about you?"

The older actress’s smile widened. "Oh, no need to call me Madame, my dear. Lavanya is fine, and I’m doing good as well.” She extended her hand out towards the food. “Please, do eat your fill, and now, shall we begin with the ‘interrogation’?”

She winked at the last word, and the siblings let out identical amiable laughs. Charuta reached forward and picked a banana chip off one of the plates and popped it into her mouth, pretty glossy lips twisting into a pout as she crunched the thing between her teeth. Arjun forcefully dragged his eyes away from the visual and focused on Chandan, who had begun speaking.

"How are we to do this, then?"

He had a curious accent— somewhere between Indian and French, Arjun realised a second later. He exchanged a look with Chinu Maushi, who smirked at him like she knew exactly what was going through his mind. He turned away without giving her the honour of a reply, but he could feel his cheeks heat up. Thank the Gods for his dark complexion that made it difficult for his blush to be visible, or she would never let him live it down.

"How about you ask first?" Lavanya suggested. "Tanishka asks the next question. Both of you have to answer all the questions posed."

Chandan raised a perfectly sculpted eyebrow at Chaitanya, who somehow managed to make his shrug look elegant. Arjun honestly had no idea whether to be jealous of or attracted to the man. Both men.

"I don't mind if you don’t," he answered, in the same hot accent as his older brother, and Tanishka nodded.

"I don't mind either. Ask away."

"What are you doing, currently?" he asked, tongue curling deliciously over his R's. Arjun had to forcefully drag his eyes away from that pretty mouth. Chinu Maushi gave him a significant look behind his mother's back that said he needed to stop, and he exhaled with a shake of his head— drop it. Thankfully, she did, but not before she gave him another look. Arjun rolled his eyes went back to the Q&A.

"I'm working as a freelance influencer and content creator as of now," Tanishka replied. “I won’t be signing onto Aai’s company, but hopefully in a few years I’ll take up a contract with a reputable agency as an actress. What about you?”

Charuta and Chandan exchanged discreet looks above Chaitanya's head, who was hilariously short compared to his older siblings. Even Charita was a couple inches taller than him. Arjun had no ground to stand on, however; he was the same height. He had no doubt that if Krushna met Chaitanya, he would tease him for his height the same way he did to Arjun.

Gods, he could not wait to tell Krushna about this.

"I'm in the last year of my Master’s degree,” Chaitanya said, leaning forward to wrap slender fingers covered in silver rings around a glass of chilled panha. Arjun’s eyes tracked the movement, only half focused on the rest of the words he spoke. He glimpsed a small tattoo on the inner side of the wrist, but the sleeves of the kurta shifted before he could get a proper look. “My subject is Physics.”

Oh, pretty and smart.

And so the interrogation proceeded, with Tanishka and Chaitanya taking turns in asking questions and answering them. By the end of the hour, half the plates and glasses had been wiped clean, and Arjun knew the general details and history of the Kulkarni family.

Chaitanya was twenty-five years old, and the youngest of the siblings. Chandan was thirty-nine and married with a seven year old daughter, and Charuta was not aiming to marry at all. She was thirty-five, had passed the UPSC exams on her first try after her LLB, and was working as a diplomat in Delhi at the Italian Embassy in India. Charita was a famous actress who mostly filmed in England and France, and had married her husband two years ago at the age of twenty-seven. Chaitanya was currently teaching maths and physics to school students when he was not working on his thesis for his Masters.

Their parents— Nayantara and Dhruv— had passed away in a car accident sixteen years ago, and Chandan had taken the younger two siblings to Paris to live with their maternal grandmother, while Charuta attended National Law University in Mumbai. The three siblings had stayed in Paris for ten years until Chaitanya completed his high school, and then moved to Pune for his Bachelors degree at Fergusson College.

“And what will you do after your Masters?” Tanishka asked him, leaning forward in her seat with a manicured finger subtly twirling with a strand of her hair. Arjun had seen her use that trick before, and he smirked when he noticed Chaitanya’s eyes follow the slide of the edge of the short square nail through the black curl before flicking back to her face.

“Ah, I’m hoping to continue on to a Ph.D,” he said, and picked up his glass of panha to take a sip. “What about you? Are you planning on getting another degree or—”

“On, no,” Tanishka replied, shaking her head so her curls bounced just enough to attract attention. “I have a masters, and that’s enough for me. Frankly, I’ve had enough of being yelled at by professors.” She chuckled faintly as if letting the others in on a joke, and Arjun stifled a snicker when Chaitanya echoed the sound, eyes never leaving his sister’s pretty face.

“Shall we talk alone?” He asked her, and Tanishka smiled her most charming smile, but there was a gleam in her eyes that Arjun recognised— the one that made an appearance when she had gotten what she wanted. “Why not? I know a cafe ten minutes from here that has excellent French press, if you’d like.”

Chaitanya glanced at Charuta for permission, grinning boyishly when she nodded. When he turned back to offer his hand to Tanishka, his grin was a little shy. It was endearing, and Arjun exchanged a look with his mother, who looked like she had won three Oscars in one go. He stifled another laugh.

Tanishka winked at Lavanya as she slipped out of the living room with her hand in Chaitanya’s, Arjun politely excused himself by citing his studies as a reason and slipped back up the stairs and into his room. He shut the door behind him and threw himself onto the bed, pushing aside the mass of textbooks, and unlocked his phone to hit the speed dial for his best friend.

“Haye tauba,” he breathed the minute Krushna picked up the phone, “they’re all so damn hot.”

The laugh that Krushna let out felt like it was setting off the butterfly effect.

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Since yesterday was Boxing Day what does Johnny and the Gorilla Gangs do on that day.

Ooooooo thank you so much for the ask!!! I actually am going to touch a bit on this in my fic Meeting The Nephew in the last chapter, but legit only like one line so yay, I get to talk about it more!!

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While Stan and Barry do hang out and spend time with Johnny and Marcus during Pancha Ganpati, it's mostly just the two Taylors that celebrate it as for them it's not just a religious holiday but a time when they feel really close to Johnny's mum.

Therefore, Boxing Day is the day when gifts are exchanged between them and Stan and Barry. Though the location of breakfast alternates between the garage and the uncles' shared apartment, the four always eat together (a daily occurrence even not on holidays) and open gifts in the morning.

Johnny finds it hysterical to get his dad at least one thing that says "from your favourite child/son" even if it's a card every year despite being an only child. Stan tends to give gifts that were not previously approved of by Marcus (yes, the first skateboard does technically fall into this category). Meanwhile Barry treats wishlists like a chemical spill instruction manual and follows them religiously. Marcus on the other hand, does majority of his shopping months in advance and therefore doesn't really need to follow the lists.

After food and gifts however, the group typically goes and volunteers at Johnny's temple, as it serves food to people in need as well as providing winter clothing for free, for the rest of the day. Volunteering together is very important for all of them and their biggest day to do it is definitely Boxing Day, as they spend the entire day doing so, but they continue the tradition at other times throughout the year too.

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