wow thanks for the info about how it is celebrated in diff community. and you wrote right about jains. 👍🏼
Ganesha struck a deal with Ravana and declared that he could not wait for long & when he grew tired, he would call out Ravana's name thrice & if he did not come & take the Lingam, he would place it on the ground & go away. Ravana agreed. As soon as Ravana left Ganesha in no time called him thrice and has per the deal he had already placed the AtmaLinga on the ground.
Seeing the Linga on the ground an enraged Ravana started chasing the boy to hit him on his head. Lord Ganesha showed his true form. The Ganesha statue in the temple has a hollow on the head, where Ravana is supposed to have struck him Ravana, realizing that he had been tricked, got really angry and tried to uproot and destroy the but could not.
In spite of using his twenty hands, he could not budge the Linga. Though the Linga could not be moved, the pressure from Ravana's hands had changed its shape like the ear of a cow & hence the place came to be called Kokarnam (Ko-cow, karnam-ear). The linga came to be called Mahabaleswara since it could not even be shifted by the mighty Ravana (maha-great, balam-power, Eswara-Lord Siva). Then he decided to destroy the covering of the AtmaLinga, and threw the case covering it to a place called Sajjeshwara, 23 miles away. Then he threw the lid of the case to a placed called Guneshwara (now Gunavanthe) and Dhareshwara, 10-12 miles away. Finally, he threw the cloth covering the AtmaLinga to a placed called Mrideshwara in Kanduka-Giri (Kanduka Hill).
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One day Parvati, Shiva's beloved wife, instructed Shiva's attendant Nandi not to let anyone in while she was taking a bath. A little later Shiva arrived wishing to enter. Nandiwas in a dilemma as how to stop his master. Shiva entered Parvati was not ready to receive him. She was upset and wondered why Nandi had not obeyed her command. She complained to Shiva but Shiva did not take the matter too seriously. He was amused to hear that Parvati had asked Nandi to stop him from entering his own home. Parvati was annoyed. She shared her feelings with her friends. They teased Parvati by saying that she had no attendant of her own. They all considered Shiva their true master.
One of Parvati's friends came up with the idea to create a person who would owe his first allegiance to Parvati and not to Shiva. So Parvati gathered the saffron paste (used at the time of bathing), from her own body and created a boy. The boy was handsome and strong. She gave the boy life and hugged him dearly.
"You are my son, my very own son, I do not have anyone elseto call my very own" said Parvati. Then Parvati gave the boy a staff and asked him to guard the door, "Do not to allow any one to enter without my permission."
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