Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Story behind Lord Ganesha's broken tusk

We all could see Lord Ganesha having two tusks and can you notice one of it is broken?! There is a story behind the broken tusk. Once Lord Vyas wanted someone to write Mahabharata as he recite it. He placed his request to Lord Brahma, who in turn suggested Ganesha as the apt person for this dutiful act. When Vyasji approached Ganesha and told his request, Ganesha consented to it with one condition. It was that, Vyasji has to recite continuously without pausing in the middle. Vyasji agreed to Ganesha's condition and replied that he would in turn want Ganesha to scribble only after knowing the meaning of the recitation.
Then started the record of our epic Mahabharata. While writing fast, Ganesha's tip of the quill got broken. Ganesha did not want to pause his writing, and so immediately he broke part of his right tusk and continued writing. He displayed the importance of performing one's duty at all times. This event left him with a broken task and the name "Eka Dantam".

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