The discarded Hindu gods still haunt the forest depths, and the superstitious native, as he threads the dark recesses of the solemn woods, gazes with apprehensive eyes on the trident of Siva, or the elephant's trunk of ganesh emerging from the trailing wreaths and matted tapestry of liana and creeper, veiling the blackened stone of each decaying shrine.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
To the north beyond the larger ranges which encircle the valley the peak of Harischandragad is dimly visible, towering above the Sahyadris; and across the plain to eastward the Suleman range ends in the huge rounded shoulders of the ganesh Lena spur.
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
When we recall the almost unbroken chain of caves,-the Shivner, the ganesh, the Manmoda and the Tulja,-which surround Junner, we suspect that the original intention of those primeval devotees was to carve dwellings and chapels in all three hills, which thus would have surely formed a triple beam of light in honour of the great Master, whom an English missionary has characterized as "one of the grandest examples of self- denial and love to humanity which the world has ever produced."
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.