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The&nbsp;Siddhivinayak Temple&nbsp;of&nbsp;Siddhatek&nbsp;is a&nbsp;Hindu temple&nbsp;dedicated to&nbsp;Ganesha, the elephant-headed god of wisdom.

The temple is one of the&nbsp;Ashtavinayaka, the eight revered shrines of Ganesha in the&nbsp;Indian state&nbsp;of&nbsp;Maharashtra&nbsp;and the only Ashtavinayaka shrine in&nbsp;Ahmednagar district.The temple is located on the northern bank of the river&nbsp;Bhima&nbsp;in Siddhatek in the Karjat&nbsp;taluka&nbsp;of Ahmednagar district.&nbsp;The nearest station is&nbsp;Daund&nbsp;(19&nbsp;km).

The temple is accessible from the small village of Shirapur in&nbsp;Pune district, on the southern bank of the river, from where it can be reached by boat or newly constructed bridge.

Other routes are (48&nbsp;km) Daund-Kasti-Padgaon, Shirur-Shrigonda-Siddhatek, Karjat-Rashin-Siddhatek 
The temple stands on a hillock, surrounded by thick foliage of&nbsp;Babul&nbsp;trees and is located approximately 1&nbsp;km from the core Siddhatek village.

&nbsp;To propitiate the deity, devotees often perform&nbsp;pradakshina&nbsp;(Circumambulation) of the hillock seven times, even though there is no paved road and the path passes through thorny shrubs.The original temple is believed to be built by Vishnu, however it was destroyed over time. Later, a cowherd is believed to have had a vision of the ancient temple and found the icon of Siddhi-vinayaka.

The cowherd worshipped the deity and soon others learned of the shrine.

The present temple was built in the late 18th century by&nbsp;Ahilyabai Holkar, the&nbsp;Philosopher Queen&nbsp;of&nbsp;Indore, who built and renovated many Hindu temples.

Sardar&nbsp;Haripant Phadke, an official with the&nbsp;Peshwa&nbsp;rulers, built the&nbsp;Nagarkhana&nbsp;- a chamber which stores&nbsp;Nagaras (kettle drums) and a paved pathway to the main door of the temple.

&nbsp;Haripant Phadke got his post as commander-in-chief back after praying to the deity for 21 days, daily circumbulating the temple 21 times.

&nbsp;The outer sabha-mandapa (hall)&nbsp;&ndash; previously built by Mairal, a landlord from&nbsp;Baroda&nbsp;&ndash; was broken in 1939 and was rebuilt in 1970.

The&nbsp;Ganapatya, a sect that worships Ganesha as the Supreme Being, Saint&nbsp;Morya Gosavi&nbsp;(dated between 13th to 17th century), and his son Narayan Maharaj are described as having worshipped at the temple, where they attained siddhi.

Currently, the temple is under the administration of the&nbsp;Chinchwad Devasthan Trust, which also governs Morgaon and Theur Ashtavinayak temples.

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The temple - constructed in black stone - faces north. The temple has&nbsp;sabha-mandapa&nbsp;(assembly hall) of black stone and another&nbsp;sabha-mandapa, which is a later addition.The threshold of the main shrine has a small demonic head sculpture. The temple also has a&nbsp;Nagarkhana.

The&nbsp;garbhagriha&nbsp;(sanctum) is 15&nbsp;ft high and 10&nbsp;ft wide.&nbsp;It has the&nbsp;Jaya-Vijaya&nbsp;&ndash; the gatekeepers of Vishnu&#39;s abode&nbsp;&ndash; brass sculptures flanking the central icon of Siddhivinayaka.

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It has a dome-shaped stone ceiling.&nbsp;Like all Ashtavinayaka shrines, the central Ganesha image is believed to be&nbsp;svayambhu&nbsp;(self-existent), naturally occurring in the form of an elephant-faced stone.

The central icon of Siddhi-Vinayaka is seated cross-legged with his consort&nbsp;Siddhi&nbsp;seated nearby, though often she is hidden with flower garlands and the&nbsp;sindoor&nbsp;paste that covers the image.The icon is sheathed in brass and with its trunk turned to the right.

The sanctum also has a Shiva-panchayatana&nbsp;(Shiva surrounded by Ganesha, Vishnu,&nbsp;the Goddess&nbsp;and the Sun-god&nbsp;Surya) and a shrine to goddess Shivai.

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Highlights

Though Siddhatek is prescribed to the second temple to be visited in the Ashtavinayak circuit after the foremost&nbsp;Morgaon, pilgrims often visit it third after Morgaon and&nbsp;Theur, as it is a more convenient route.

The Ganesha icon here is with his trunk turned to the right. Usually, the trunk of Ganesha is depicted turned to his left. It is believed that the right-trunked Ganesha is very powerful, but difficult to please.

This is the only Ashtavinayaka shrine where the deity has his trunk to the right.&nbsp;Traditionally, an icon whose trunk is to the right is named &quot;Siddhi-Vinayaka&quot;, the giver of&nbsp;siddhi&nbsp;(&quot;accomplishment, success&quot;, &quot;supernatural powers&quot;).

The temple is thus considered as a&nbsp;jagrut&nbsp;kshetra&nbsp;where the deity is said to highly powerful.

The&nbsp;Mudgala Purana&nbsp;narrates that at the beginning of Creation, the creator-god&nbsp;Brahma&nbsp;emerges from a lotus, that rises the god&nbsp;Vishnu&#39;s navel as Vishnu sleeps in his&nbsp;yoganidra.

While Brahma starts creating the universe, two demons&nbsp;Madhu and Kaitabha&nbsp;rise from the dirt in Vishnu&#39;s ear.

The demons disturb Brahma&#39;s process of creation, thereby compelling Vishnu to awake. Vishnu battles the battle, but cannot defeat them. He asks the god&nbsp;Shiva&nbsp;the reason for this.

Shiva informs Vishnu that he cannot succeed as he had forgotten to invoke Ganesha&nbsp;&ndash; the god of beginning and obstacle removal&nbsp;&ndash; before the fight.

Therefore, Vishnu performs penance at Siddhatek, invoking Ganesha with his&nbsp;mantra&nbsp;&ndash; &quot;Om Sri Ganeshaya Namah&quot;. Pleased, Ganesha bestows his blessings and various&nbsp;siddhis (&quot;powers&quot;) on Vishnu, returns to his fight and slays the demons.

The place where Vishnu acquired&nbsp;siddhis was thereafter known as Siddhatek.

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