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.
- The Diaspora and Global Sri Vidya Treatise
The Ganesha temple at Flushing in Queens was consecrated on 4 July the same year. One is Vaishnava and one Ganapatya.
- 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.