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Definition: Ganesha |
GaneshaNoun1. God of wisdom or prophesy; remover of obstacles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Ganesha" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lord of hordes". |
Synonyms: GaneshaSynonyms: Ganapati (n), Ganesa (n), Ganesh (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ganesha acquired his head through varying methods in different stories. In one, Shiva decapitated him because Ganesha refused to allow him to enter the bath while Parvati was bathing. Shiva had to give him the new head to placate his wife. In another version, Parvati showed the child off to Shiva, whose face burned his head to ashes, which Brahma told Shiva to replace with the first head he could find--in this case, that of an elephant. The lack of a second tusk is explained by a different myth. An avatar of Vishnu, Parashurama, once went to visit Shiva but the way was blocked by Ganesha. Parasurama threw his axe at him and Ganesha, knowing the axe had been given to him by Shiva, allowed it cut off one of his tusks.
In India, especially in the state of Maharashtra, there is an important festival honoring Ganesha. It is celebrated for ten days starting from Ganesh Chaturthi. This was introduced by Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak (Tilak)as a means of promoting nationalist sentiment when India was ruled by the British. The highlight of this festival is the This festival is passionately celebrated and in culminates on the day of Anant Chaturdashi when the idol of Lord Ganesha is immersed into the most convenient water body. e.g. in the case of Bombay the idols are immersed in the Arabian Sea. In the case of Pune the idols are immersed in the Mula-Mutha river.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ganesha."
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Movie/TV Titles | Gauri Ganesha (1991) | |
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| "Ganesha" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ganesha" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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| "Ganesha" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lord of hordes". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Ganesha." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Ganesh | Male | Hindu Mythology | N/A |
| Ganesh | Male | Indian | N/A |
| Ganesha | Male | Indian | Ganesh |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ganesha | 277 |
ganesha picture | 64 |
lord ganesha | 51 |
ganesha high school | 11 |
ganesha image | 9 |
ganesha lord picture | 8 |
ganesha wallpaper | 7 |
ganesha statue | 6 |
ganesha tattoo | 6 |
hindu god ganesha | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "ganesha"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | aneshagay.(various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-n-s" | |
-2 letters: aghas, angas, ansae, ashen, gnash, hangs, hansa, hanse, sanga, sangh. | |
-3 letters: aahs, agas, ages, agha, anas, anes, anga, ansa, asea, engs, gaen, gaes, gane, gash, gens, haen, haes, hags, hang, hens, nags, saga, sage, sane, sang, shag, shea, snag. | |
-4 letters: aah, aas, aga, age, aha, ana, ane, ash, eng, ens, gae, gan, gas, gen, hae, hag, has, hen, hes, nae, nag, nah, sae, sag, sea, seg, sen, sha, she. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, ah, an, as, eh, en, es, ha, he, na, ne, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-h-n-s" | |
+1 letter: ganaches, thanages. | |
+2 letters: chantages, harangues, phalanges, stagehand. | |
+3 letters: anchorages, archangels, champagnes, haranguers, hydrangeas, mahoganies, orphanages, phalangers, saganashes, shaggymane, shanghaied, shanghaier, shenanigan, stagehands. | |
+4 letters: anemographs, carragheens, chargehands, dragonheads, gearchanges, haggardness, halogenates, hemangiomas, managership, mastheading, phanerogams, shaggymanes, shanghaiers, shenanigans, straphanger. | |
+5 letters: agapanthuses, chaetognaths, chaperonages, earthshaking, farthingales, gamesmanship, gnatcatchers, grandfathers, managerships, manslaughter, menorrhagias, paperhangers, phrasemaking, spearheading, straphangers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6E 65 73 68 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -. . ... .... .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01101000 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a n e s h a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006E 0065 0073 0068 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41678071857467 |
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