
The people you love are your world.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Birth, the race around the world, the moon, the broken tusk.
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The people you love are your world.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Parvati makes a boy from turmeric paste.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A door, a father, a new head, told gently.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Why the biggest god rides the smallest friend.
From the original text · Shiva Purana

A laugh, a lesson, and a moon that learned some manners.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Twenty-one modaks, one very full belly.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A broken tusk for a pen.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
The race, the parents, the promise.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A rich man learns what fills a belly.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Every hurt to a creature is a hurt to Ma.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Ten days of a guest in the house.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
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7 samhitas; Rudra Samhita, Kumara Khanda for Ganesha
Source edition record2 khandas
4 khandas; Ganapati Khanda for Ganesha and the moon
Source edition recordVulgate (Bombay/Calcutta) as translated by Ganguli; 18 parvas, 100 upa-parvas, 2,132 sections
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