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CHAPTER VIII.

SONS OF SIVA AND PARVATI.

I. Ganesa.

Ganesa is usually regarded as the elder son of Siva and Pārvati, but the Purānas differ very considerably

GANESA.

in their accounts of his origin. Sir W. Jones says^[1] that “Ganesa, the Indian god of Wisdom, has the same characteristics as Janus of the Latins. All

1. “Asiatic Researches,” i, 227.