Parashurama's Rage at Kailash

The Brahmavaivarta Purana preserves an entirely different account of how Shree Ganesh's tusk came to be broken — not through service to Vyasa, but through a fierce confrontation with the volatile sage Parashurama at the gates of Kailash.

An Unexpected Visitor

Parashurama, an avatar of Vishnu renowned for both his devotion to Shiva and his notoriously fierce temper, arrived at Kailash demanding entry into Shiva's private chambers, a request that placed him directly at odds with the guard already stationed there.

Two Traditions Held Honestly

This collection holds both accounts of the broken tusk — the Vyasa story and this Brahmavaivarta account — as genuine threads within Hindu sacred literature, rather than treating one as more authentic than the other; different texts have long preserved different explanations for the same beloved feature.

What Devotees Seek

Devotees encountering both traditions find in their coexistence a broader truth about India's sacred literature itself: that multiple texts, each sincere in its own transmission, can honor the same deity through different, equally cherished stories.