Ganapatya
गाणपत्य gāṇapatyaThe devotional stream that worships Ganesha as the supreme reality, Brahman in elephant-headed form; one of the principal sectarian traditions, with sub-branches including the left-hand Ucchishta-Ganapatyas.
Where this term appears
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
…ublishing university, says so in Hindi and in plain words: the Saura, Ganapatya and Skanda agamas are called secondary for one reason only, the extreme scarcity of literature directly connected with them, becau…
- Who is Ganesha? Deities
The Ganapatya sect made Ganesha the supreme being, the source from which the other gods proceed, and produced scriptures to match that claim.
- The Bengali Shakta And Vamachara Sub-Lineages Treatise
The work integrated the Shakta , the Shaiva , the Vaishnava , the Ganapatya , and the Saura traditions into a single Bengal-specific operational framework.
- Kin and cousins Treatise
A god of the leftover in the Ganapatya stream; a goddess of the leftover in the Shakta.
- The history, and the shadow it works on Treatise
…ho catalogued the sects, Anandagiri among them, noticed the Ucchishta-Ganapatyas as a distinct and disreputable current.
- The many faces Treatise
…ughly the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries and produced by the Ganapatya sect itself as the scriptural charter of its devotion; Heinrich von Stietencron has argued for a window as late as the fifteenth t…
- The reversal Treatise
The deity arises far later, by a different route, out of the tantric and Ganapatya currents the next chapters trace.
- Why this form exists Treatise
The Ganapatyas and their branches Among the devotional streams of medieval Hinduism were the Ganapatyas, those who worshipped Ganesha as the supreme reality itself, not as a helper invoked before the real gods,…