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Example sentences for: elephant-headed
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Shiva and Parvati are the parents of the elephant-headed Ganesh, easily the most popular of the family because he is capable of assuring the success of any venture.
Dim electric lights reveal niches at either end that are believed to have housed shrines: One now holds a damaged statue of the elephant-headed god, Ganesha.
The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.
To one side of the Kasthamandap is a small, shiny, brass-roofed shrine dedicated to the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh.