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गणेश m. am. (= °ण-नाथ) N. of the god of wisdom and of obstacles (son of शिव and पार्वती, or according to one legend of पार्वती alone; though गणेश causes obstacles he also removes them; hence he is invoked at the commencement of all undertakings and at the opening of all compositions with the words नमो गणे-शाय विघ्ने-श्वराय; he is represented as a short fat man with a protuberant belly, frequently riding on a rat or attended by one, and to denote his sagacity has the head of an elephant, which however has only one tusk; the appellation गणेश, with other similar compounds, alludes to his office as chief of the various classes of subordinate gods, who are regarded as शिव's attendants; cf. [RTL. pp. 48, 62, 79, 392, 440]; he is said to have written down the [MBh.] as dictated by व्यास, [MBh. i, 74 ff.]; persons possessed, by गणेश are referred to, [Yājñ. i, 270 ff.])
N. of शिव, [MBh. iii, 1629]
गण-पुंगव = , [VarBṛ. xiii, 8]
विद्येश m. m. pl. (= or °श्वर) a class of सिद्धs (with शैवs), [Hcat. i, 11, 857 ff]
N. of a renowned astronomer of the 16th century
of a son of राम-देव (author of a Comm. on [Nalôd.])
of a son of विश्वनाथ-दीक्षित and grandson of भावराम-कृष्ण (author of a Comm. called चिच्चन्द्रिका)
m. m. (with जैनs) a disciple who is put in charge of a few others.
गणेश b See s.v. गण॑.
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