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The text presents the mythology and attributes of Hindu deity Ganesha.

Шаблон:Hindu scriptures and texts The Ganesha Purana (Sanskrit:Шаблон:Lang; Шаблон:IAST) is a Sanskrit text that deals with the Hindu deity Ganesha (Шаблон:IAST).Шаблон:Sfn It is an [[Upapurana|Шаблон:IAST]] (minor Purana) that includes mythology, cosmogony, genealogy, metaphors, yoga, theology and philosophy relating to Ganesha.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

The text is organized in two voluminous sections, one on mythology and genealogy (Krida-khanda, 155 chapters), and the other on theology and devotion (Upasana-khanda, 92 chapters).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn It exists in many versions.Шаблон:Sfn The text's composition and expansion date has been estimated to be the late medieval period, between the 13th- to 18th-century CE, during a period of political turmoil during the Islamic rule period of South Asia.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The text shares the features and stories found in all major Puranas, and like all Puranas, it is, states Bailey, also a cultural object and reflects the cultural needs and mores, in the environment it was written.Шаблон:Sfn

The Ganesha Purana, along with the Mudgala Purana, Brahma Purana and Brahmanda Purana, is one of four Puranic genre encyclopedic texts that deal with Ganesha.Шаблон:Sfn The four texts, two Upa-Puranas and two Maha-Puranas, differ in their focus. The Brahmanda Purana presents Ganesha as Saguna (with attributes and physical form), the Brahma Purana presents Ganesha as Nirguna (without attributes, abstract principle), Ganesha Purana presents him as a union of Saguna and Nirguna concept wherein saguna Ganesha is a prelude to nirguna Ganesha, and the Mudgala Purana describes Ganesha as Samyoga (abstract synthesis with absolute reality and soul).Шаблон:Sfn

The Ganesha Purana is an important text particularly for Ganapatyas (Шаблон:IAST), who consider Ganesha as their primary deity.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Significance

The Ganesha Purana is significant because it is, with Ganapati Upanishad, the two most important texts of the Ganapatya sect of Hinduism.Шаблон:Sfn The Ganapatyas consider Ganesha as their primary deity, and the mythology of Ganesha found in this Purana is part of their tradition.Шаблон:Sfn The text is also significant because it relates to Ganesha, who is the most worshipped god in Hinduism, and revered as the god of beginnings by all major Hindu traditions, namely Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism and Smartism.Шаблон:Sfn The text integrates ancient mythology and Vedantic premises into a Ganesha bhakti (devotional) framework.[1]

The text is also significant to the history of Buddhism and Jainism, since Ganesha is found in their mythologies and theology as well.[2]Шаблон:Sfn

Date of work

The Ganesha Purana and the Mudgala Purana are the two late Puranas (c. AD 1300–1600).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Stietencron suggests the more likely period of composition may be 15th- to 18th-century, during a period of conflict between the Hindu Maratha and Islamic Sultanates in Maharashtra.Шаблон:Sfn

The date of composition for both the Ganesha Purana and the Mudgala Purana, and their dating relative to one another, has been a matter of academic debate. Both works contain age-layered strata, but these strata have not been clearly defined through the process of critical editorship. Some strata of the available redactions of the Ganesha Purana and the Mudgala Purana probably reflect mutual influence upon one another, including direct references to one another.

Thapan reviews different views on dating and states her own judgement that it appears likely that the core of the Ganesha Purana come into existence around the 12th and 13th centuries, being subject to interpolations during the succeeding ages.[3] Thapan notes that these Puranas, like other Puranas, developed over a period of time as multi-layered works.

Lawrence W. Preston considers that the period AD 1100–1400 is the most reasonable date for the Ganesha Purana because that period agrees with the apparent age of the sacred sites in Nagpur and Varanasi areas mentioned by it.[4]Шаблон:Sfn Hazra also dates the Ganesha Purana between AD 1100–1400.[5] Farquhar dates it between AD 900–1350.[6] Stevenson, in contrast, suggests the text was likely written in or after 17th-century.[7]Шаблон:Sfn

Structure

Шаблон:Quote box The Ganesa Purana is divided into two sections. The Upasanakhanda (Шаблон:IAST) or "section on devotion" has 92 chapters, and the Kridakhanda (Шаблон:IAST) or "section on the divine play (of Шаблон:IAST)" has 155 chapters.Шаблон:Sfn The Kridakhanda is also called the Uttarakhanda (Шаблон:IAST) in the colophons.[8] Chapter 46 of the Upasanakhanda includes a stotra (hymn) that is the source text for one of the best-known versions of the Ganesha Sahasranama (hymn of praise listing 1,000 names and attributes of Ganesha).Шаблон:Citation needed

The text has five literary units, found in all Puranas: khanda, mahatmya, upakhyana, gita and a narrative unit.Шаблон:Sfn It is structured as a recitation by sage Vyasa, traceable to sages in the mythical Naimisa forest in Hinduism.Шаблон:Sfn The composition style is didactic and mythic, the imagery and framing of story is similar to the other Puranas.Шаблон:Sfn The text has four idiosyncrasies, states Bailey, in that it contains no pancalaksana content, minimal didactic presentation of dharmashastra, the myths are structured as involving Ganesha's intervention in ancient Hindu mythology, and the mythical plots invariably present Ganesha as the life and inner principle of all other Hindu deities.Шаблон:Sfn

Contents

Upasanakhanda: Abstract meditation or Bhakti Puja

The Upasanakhanda, or the first part of the Ganesha Purana, presents two modes of worship.[9]Шаблон:Sfn One is meditation and mystic contemplation of Ganesha as the eternal Brahman presented in Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy, the metaphysical absolute and Paramatma (Nirguna, supreme spirit), where he is same as the Atman (soul, innermost self) within oneself.Шаблон:Sfn The second approach, suggests the Ganesapurana, is through preparing an image of god (Saguna, murti), decorating it with flowers, presenting it offerings and festively remembering him in Puja-style homage.[9]Шаблон:Sfn The Upasanakhanda presents these ideas in a series of episodical stories and cosmogony, that weaves in ancient mythologies as dynamic empirical reality and presents Ganesha as the Vedantist Brahman, or the absolute unchanging reality.[10]Шаблон:Sfn

Kridakhanda: The Ganesha Gita

Chapters 138-48 of the Kridakhanda constitute the Ganesha Gita, which is modeled on the Bhagavad Gita, but adapted to place Ganesha in the divine role.[11] The discourse is given to King Varenya during Ganesha's incarnation as Gajanana.

Шаблон:Quote box According to Yuvraj Krishan, the Ganesha Gita shows that ninety percent of its stanzas are, with slight modifications, taken from the Bhagavad Gita.[12] Their topics are the same: karma yoga, jnana yoga and bhakti yoga. However, Ganesha replaces Krishna in the divine role, states Yuvraj Krishan.[12]

In contrast, Greg Bailey states that while Bhagavad Gita is a strong possible source, the Ganesha Gita has only 412 verses in this section and skips a large number of verses in Bhagavad Gita, and it is incorrect to presume that the text is identical in all respects and merely replaces Ganesha for Krishna.Шаблон:Sfn The discussion develops differently, and the character of Varenya is far weaker than the inquisitive philosophical questions of Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, as Varenya asks questions of Ganesha. However, agrees Bailey, that the theology found in Bhagavad Gita and Ganesha Gita are substantially the same.Шаблон:Sfn

Kridakhanda: Ganesha in four Yugas

The Kridakhanda of the Ganesha Purana narrates the stories of four incarnations (Avatars) of Ganesha, each for the four different yugas.[12][13] The 155 chapters of this section are separated into the four yugas. Chapters 1 through 72 present Ganesha in Satya Yuga, chapters 73 through 126 present Ganesha's story in the Treta Yuga, while chapters 127 through 137 present his stories in Dvapara Yuga.Шаблон:Sfn Chapter 138 through 148 present the Ganesha Gita, followed by a short section on Kali Yuga (current age) in chapter 149.Шаблон:Sfn The rest of chapter 149 through chapter 155 are interlocutory, following the literary requirements of a valid Puranic genre.Шаблон:Sfn

Ganesha is presented as Vinayaka in Satya Yuga, with ten arms, huge, very generous in giving gifts and riding a lion.Шаблон:Sfn[14] In Treta Yuga, Ganesha is in the form of Mayuresvara (Шаблон:IAST), who has six arms, with a white complexion, and rides a peacock.Шаблон:Sfn He manifests in the form of Gajanana (Шаблон:IAST) in Dvapara Yuga, with four arms, a red complexion and riding Dinka, a mouse.Шаблон:Sfn He is born to Shiva and Parvati in the Dvapara Yuga. In the Kali Yuga, he is Dhumraketu (Шаблон:IAST), with two arms, of smoke complexion, mounted on a horse.Шаблон:Sfn[15] He fights barbarian armies and kills demons in the Kali Yuga, according to Ganesha Purana.Шаблон:Sfn

Manuscripts

Greg M. Bailey, who has published a scholarly review and translation into English of the first portion (Шаблон:IAST) of the Ganesha Purana, notes that there are hundreds of manuscripts for this Purana in libraries in India, and that it was clearly very popular from the 17th to 19th centuries.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

An edition of the Ganesha Purana was published in two parts by Шаблон:IAST at Moregaon, Maharashtra (the site of one of the Шаблон:IAST temples). The Upasanakhanda (Шаблон:IAST) was published in 1979 and the Kridakhanda (Шаблон:IAST) was published in 1985.[16] This is the edition that Thapan cites in her book on the development of the Ganapatyas (Шаблон:IAST).Шаблон:Sfn

The Ganesha Purana was published three times before the edition of the Шаблон:IAST:Шаблон:Sfn

  • Pune, 1876
  • Bombay, 1876
  • Bombay, 1892, Gopal Narayana and Co.

The Ganesha Purana was translated into Tamil in the 18th century and the Tamil version is referred to as the Шаблон:IAST.Шаблон:Sfn

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  2. ↑ R Stevenson, Analysis of Ganesa Purana with special reference to the history of Buddhism, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol 8, pages 319-329
  3. ↑ For a review of major differences of opinions between scholars on dating see Thapan, op. cit., pp. 30–33.
  4. ↑ Preston, Lawrence W., p. 103. "Subregional Religious Centers in the History of Maharashtra: The Sites Sacred to Шаблон:IAST", in: N. K. Wagle, ed., Images of Maharashtra: A Regional Profile of India.
  5. ↑ R. C. Hazra, "The Шаблон:IAST", Journal of the Ganganatha Jha Research Institute, Vol. 9, 1951, pp. 79–99. For dating see p. 97.
  6. ↑ Farquhar, J. N., An Outline of the Religious Literature of India, pp. 226 and 270.
  7. ↑ R Stevenson, Шаблон:Google books, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Art 16, Vol 8, page 319
  8. ↑ Encyclopaedia of Hinduism edited by Nagendra Kumar Singh , First edition 2000, published by Anmol Publistions Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi Шаблон:ISBN (set) P. 883
  9. ↑ 9,0 9,1 R Stevenson, Шаблон:Google books, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Art 16, Vol 8, page 320
  10. ↑ R Stevenson, Шаблон:Google books, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Art 16, Vol 8, page 321
  11. ↑ Rocher, Ludo. "Шаблон:IAST's Rise To Prominence", p. 73 in: Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God, Robert L. Brown, editor. (State University of New York: Albany, 1991) Шаблон:ISBN
  12. ↑ 12,0 12,1 12,2 Шаблон:Harvnb
  13. ↑ Brief summaries of events in each incarnation are given in John A. Grimes. Ganapati: Song of the Self. pp. 100–105. (State University of New York Press: Albany, 1995) Шаблон:ISBN
  14. ↑ Ganesha Purana I.46.28 in the 1993 Sharma edition. In the version used by Bhāskararāya in his Khadyota commentary on the Ganesha Sahasranama the verse is numbered I.46.33 and the name is given as Kaśyapasuta.
  15. ↑ Yuvraj Krishan, op. cit. p. 84, footnote 13, says that in the Ganesha Purana 2.131.32, Dhūmraketu is said to have four arms but in ibid. 2.1.21 and 2.85.15 he is said to have only two arms. The version given in Grimes mentions only two arms.
  16. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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